Bolt wants roof over his head for Polish race

Six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt is hoping
the roof will be closed when he runs his first-ever
race in Poland at the Kamila Skolimowska
Memorial in Warsaw on Saturday.
The Jamaican world record holder will have his
eyes on a special mark when he competes over
100 meters on a newly laid track at Warsaw’s
National Stadium, which has a retractable roof.
“I’ve never run indoors, I was always too tall,” Bolt
joked at a news conference on Wednesday. “When
I heard there was going to be a roof, I was looking
forward to that.”
If the roof is closed, the competition would count
as an indoor event, a novelty itself for Bolt, but the
new surface could call into question the legitimacy
of any times set, Reuters reports.
The towering Bolt, however, said, perhaps with his
tongue placed firmly in his cheek, he is looking to
challenge Namibian Frankie Fredericks’s unofficial
indoor world record of 10.05 seconds set in 1996.
“If they treat it as an indoor world record it’ll be
good for me,” said Bolt, who holds both 100 and
200m outdoor world records. “It’s always good to
have more records.”
Even if it is unofficial.
Bolt has recently spoken of his plans to retire from
athletics after the 2017 World Championships in
London, where he won three Olympic gold medals
two years ago.
As an avid Manchester United fan, who frequently
attends the English Premier League club’s games
and has even trained with the team, he has plans
to try his hand at professional soccer once he
leaves the track.