Sports Personality of the Year: Usain Bolt wins Lifetime Achievement award

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Sports Personality 2022: Usain Bolt wins BBC Lifetime Achievement Award
Venue: Media City UK, Salford Date: Wednesday, 21 December Start time: 18:45 GMT
Coverage: Live connected BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website & app

Jamaica's eight-time Olympic golden medallist Usain Bolt volition beryllium honoured with the Lifetime Achievement grant astatine BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Bolt, 36, is the fastest sprinter successful past and retired successful August 2017 arsenic a 19-time planetary champion.

He was crowned Olympic 100m and 200m champion astatine 3 successive Games - Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.

"I'm surviving impervious that if you enactment hard, you tin get thing you want," Bolt told BBC Sport.

"One happening my dada taught maine was if you privation something, enactment hard for it. He showed maine by moving hard to supply for me, my mum and my sister, truthful erstwhile helium told me, I believed it.

"Just beryllium focused and enactment towards it."

Bolt, wide acknowledged arsenic the top sprinter of each clip and the lone jock to triumph some the 100m and 200m astatine 3 consecutive Olympics, clocked his enduring satellite grounds 100m clip of 9.58 seconds astatine the 2009 World Championships successful Berlin.

He besides inactive holds the 200m satellite grounds of 19.19 seconds, which helium acceptable 4 days aft his 100m grounds successful Berlin, with those successes the archetypal of 11 golds crossed 4 World Championships.

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His archetypal satellite medals (silvers successful the 200m and 4x100m) came successful Osaka successful 2007 - a championships Bolt credits with "opening his eyes" to the hard enactment required for him to beryllium successful. A mendacious commencement successful the 100m successful Daegu 4 years aboriginal offered him different reminder to support focused connected his goals.

"Everything happens for a reason," helium said. "I could person gone to Daegu and won and past false-started astatine the Olympics.

"It reminded maine to instrumentality to what I knew. It kept maine focused and kept maine going."

The Jamaican completed an unprecedented 'triple triple' of Olympic golden medals astatine his last Games successful Rio - but helium has since mislaid his 2008 4x100m rubric aft team-mate Nesta Carter tested affirmative for a banned substance.

Bolt chose to discontinue aft the 2017 World Championships successful London, wherever helium ended his glittering vocation with bronze successful the men's 100m.

Reflecting connected his athletics career, Bolt said: "I consciousness accomplished. I accomplished each I wanted to successful my sport.

"It is simply a large feeling to cognize that with the determination and sacrifice that I enactment successful I could execute what I wanted to. I effort to motivate radical by telling them to judge successful themselves."

Previous winners of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement grant see Billie Jean King, Pele, Bobby Charlton, Tanni Grey-Thompson, David Beckham, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Chris Hoy and past year's recipient Simone Biles.

BBC Sports Personality of the Year takes spot connected Wednesday, 21 December astatine MediaCityUK successful Salford.

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