10 Things You Should Know About Usain Bolt

He supports wildlife conservation too! In 2009, he adopted a 3 month old cheetah at an animal orphanage in Kenya and paid about 14,000 dollars for Lightening Bolt's upkeep. Cute, right?

Before he discovered his love for sprinting, he used to obsess over cricket as a kid and always wanted to grow up to be a professional fast bowler.

He has covered 100 meters in less than 9 seconds in London olympics in 2012 in the relay. A lot of focus is put upon Bolt’s individual performances, but he’s been a part of the six fastest sprint relays of all time, consistently dipping below nine seconds in his splits for these.

This music and sports bar is luxuriously designed and described as ‘the first of its kind in the Caribbean region’ and covers a 7,000 square feet area!

Bolt has already been the subject of documentaries for film and TV, but a new project centered on Rio is "coming soon." Titled I Am Bolt, the flick looks to shed more light on the Olympian's training and downtime.

Bolt has earned the No. 32 spot on Forbes' list of the world's highest-earning athletes. His earning is mainly through his numerous brand endorsements and prize money.

Scoliosis is a medical condition in which a person's spine has a sideways curve which is usually "S" or "C" shaped but he says training hard has helped him deal with the problem so it doesn't stop him from running.

"Faster than Lightning" is his biography in which he has revealed a lot about his childhood and his varying interests till he started running.

When Bolt was 17, he ran a 200m time of 19.93 seconds at a junior championship. It was a world junior record and would’ve won him silver had he competed in the 200m final at the Athens Olympics in 2004.

Usain's height is extremely tall for a sprinter and his height was considered as a serious disadvantage too.