""No, I'm not worried," Bolt said at a Puma event Thursday, two days before the start of world championships. "I think the talent is there, there will be talented athletes coming up, and they will do well. But at this present moment, I don't see any athlete able to break the record, so not worried." Bolt set both records -- 9.58 in the 100 and 19.19 in the 200 -- at worlds in Berlin in 2009."
"American Noah Lyles is the only sprinter to be outspoken about putting Bolt's marks in his sites. Lyles caused a stir in 2023 when he said he was thinking about times of 9.65 and 19.10, saying, "I have a good reason to believe I'm going to do something I've never done before." Lyles pulled off a Bolt-like feat by winning both sprints at worlds that year, but he has yet to surpass the 19.31 he ran at the 2022 worlds."
Usain Bolt says he is not worried about his 100m (9.58) and 200m (19.19) world records being broken, citing current athletes as talented but not fast enough. Since 2009 only Yohan Blake has run under 9.7 in the 100 and under 19.3 in the 200. Noah Lyles publicly targets Bolt's marks, won both sprints at 2023 worlds, but has not bettered his 19.31 from 2022. Kishane Thompson leads this year's 100 with 9.75 and is a favorite for the upcoming final, which should include Lyles, Kenny Bednarek and Oblique Seville. Bolt predicts a 1-2 Jamaican finish. Seventeen-year-old Gout Gout draws comparisons to Bolt.
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