The fastest ever always repeats: “I won medals and established records, but there was a boy who always beat me. It was called Ricardo Geddes”. And we caught Geddes in New York: “We were best friends, when we competed people came only for us. He lost and broke out crying. But then I tried to play football …” “
His name appears in all the autobiographies of the fastest human being ever. If Usain Bolt has become Usain Bolt, after all, is due to a chicken dish and a child slightly older than him (a few months) who beat him in the school races. “In Jamaica everyone practiced sports since the first grade, but at the time I was not the fastest of the school – Bolt writes in as lightning (2013) – there was another boy, who was called Ricardo Geddes, who on the shorter distances beat me at speed. And whenever Ricardo was fighting me, I angry I was to die for or I burst to cry. It was then that Mr Nugent (the teacher). Sotterfugio and decided to corrupt me by taking me by the throat. Bolt came first, and the legend began. “I won gold medals and set records at the Olympic and World Cup games – we read in Usain Bolt: 9.58 (2010) – but every time I entered the match against a strong opponent, like my teammate Jamaican Asafa Powell or the Americans Wallace Spearmon and Tyson Gay, I felt exactly like when I ran against Ricardo Geddes. First the finish line, whether it was in front of 80 thousand people in the Beijing bird’s nursery or on the sports field in front of the school “.