Bolt goes for street record at Copacabana
Bolt will compete at a track specially built at the iconic beach tomorrow, challenging Antigua and Barbuda’s Daniel Bailey, Ecuador’s Alex Quinones, and a Brazilian athlete from a local qualifier.
The blue four-lane track is in the middle of the beach, with Sugar Loaf mountain nearby.
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Hide AdA women’s race will also take place at the Copacabana track.
Bolt set the 150 mark of 14.35 seconds in Manchester in 2009.
Meanwhile, Bolt’s agent, Ricky Simms, said in a statement to the AP that he was “having positive negotiations” with organisers of the London Diamond League meet to compete on July 26-27.
The London meet, celebrating a year since the Olympics, would be one of his last competitions before the world championships in Moscow in August.