Bolt to RETIRE in 2016! Sprint king reveals plans to bow out at the top after claiming more gold at Rio Olympics

PUBLISHED: 13:55 GMT, 4 September 2013 | UPDATED: 16:54 GMT, 4 September 2013
Usain Bolt has again reaffirmed his plan to retire after the 2016 Rio Olympics. 
The current world record holder in both the 100 and 200 metres, the Jamaican has an exit strategy in place that will cement him as a true sporting legend.
Bolt hopes to win gold in Rio, set another 200m world record next year, and take a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

'If I'm in great shape and I go there and do what I have to do, I think it would be a good time to retire on top and having dominated for so long,' Bolt said.

After winning another three golds at the World Championships in Moscow, Bolt will run his final race this season in the 100m at Friday's Van Damme Memorial.
Bolt has long considered the Rio de Janeiro Games the likely stop point in his track career, but earlier in this season he was struggling to find the motivation to go out and conquer the world of sprinting again.

BOLT'S SUCCESS

OLYMPICS
Beijing 2008: Three golds
London 2012: Three golds
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Berlin 2009: Three golds

Daegu 2011: Two golds
Moscow 2013: Three golds

'I couldn't find that goal, that drive to get going again. I sat down and thought to myself: what do I really want? And what can I do in this sport some more?' he added.

'I've made up my mind that if I want to be among the greats of Ali, Pele and all these guys I have to continue dominating until I retire.
'I'm really focused on getting every season correct, trying not to get injured, and just continue dominating so at the end of my career people will put me among the greats.'
With six Olympic goal medals and eight in World Championships, there isn't much danger of the 27-year-old being forgotten.

Bolt took home three gold medals - in the 100 metres, 200 metres and the 4x100 metres - during the recent week in Moscow.
Although plagued by slow starts to races, the world's best ever sprinter has a knack of catching up and pulling clear of the field, easing up before the finish line.
The disqualification during the final of the 100 metres in Daegu two years ago is the sprinter's only failure to date.

Bolt's trademark celebration has been synonymous with athletics for the last five years.
Only three athletes - including Carl Lewis - have more Olympic medals than the current phenomenon.
If Bolt takes three golds in Rio, he will equal the best ever athletic record at an Olympic Game.
He also laughed off Ben Johnson's suggestion from last week that the disgraced Canadian could have beaten him, had they been running at the same time.
'Everybody says everything to get into the media and stir up a little bit, but he could never beat me," Bolt said.
'That's just him trying to get some attention. I don't see Ben Johnson beating me at any time.'