The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory Audiobook (Free)

Beijing 2008, the 100 metres final: Usain Bolt slows down, beats his chest, metres clear of his nearest rival, his face filled with the euphoria of a young man utterly in thrall to his remarkable physical talent. It is one of the greatest sporting moments. It is just the start.

From the ten fastest 100-metres times ever sold, eight belong to Jamaicans. How could it be that a small Caribbean island offers come to almost totally dominate the men’s and women’s sprint events?

The Bolt Supremacy opens about The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory the doorways to a community where sprinting permeates conversations and interactions; where in fact the high school championships are viewed by 35,000 screaming supporters; where identity, achievement and status are forged around the track, and where making it is normally a pass to a world of adoration and profitable contracts.

In such a society there may be the incentive for some to cheat. You can find those who attribute Jamaican success to something beyond skill and hard work. Award-winning writer Richard Moore doesn’t shy away from hard questions as he travels the length of this beguiling country talking with anti-doping agencies, scientists and sceptics as well as to instructors, gurus, superstar athletes and the youthful guns desperate to be another big point. Peeling back the layers, Moore finally reveals the secrets of Usain Bolt as well as the Jamaican sprint manufacturing plant.