Bolt from the blue! Usain may only run 200m at Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Usain Bolt has delivered a potential bombshell to thousands of Scots fans by revealing he is likely only to run in the 200 metres if he competes at Glasgow 2014. 
Many applied for 100m finals tickets in the hope of seeing the fastest man on the planet but, on the day the Jamaican superstar insisted he remains desperate to take part in his first Commonwealth Games, he suggested his ‘favourite event’ of the 200m would be his sole focus.
With the 100m and 200m showpieces taking place on different days at Hampden next July, those who applied for tickets for the latter event now have the best chance of witnessing him go for gold. In a boost for Glasgow, however, Bolt claimed he had pleaded with coach Glen Mills for the green light to race in  Scotland next summer.

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Holder of an astonishing six Olympic titles, the 27-year-old also said he might renege on earlier plans to retire after Rio 2016.
Bolt has never competed at the  Commonwealths, having pulled out of the 2006 event in Melbourne with a  hamstring injury and stayed away from Delhi 2010.
Having previously hinted at a desire to compete in Glasgow next year, he insisted it was on his personal schedule — pending approval by Mills.
‘I have said to my coach I would love to go to the Commonwealths,’ said Bolt. ‘It’s something I haven’t done before. It’s up to him — but I have said to him I want to be a part of it. My coach will think about it and we will see what he says.
‘It’s on my to-do list and I want to really do it. But I never go against my coach. We’re going to discuss it during the  season and we will decide on it then.’

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While Bolt, who also said his 100m and 200m world records could be within reach if he makes a quick start to 2014, seemed optimistic about competing in Glasgow, he revealed he was unlikely to tackle the shorter distance, insisting: ‘Probably, I will only run the 200, because that’s my favourite event.’
The absence of a rival major event next year is likely to have weighed heavily in Bolt’s desire to compete in Glasgow, with big showpiece appearances now running out as he nears the end of his career.
Speaking at a book signing of his new autobiography Faster than Lightning at Selfridges in London, he said his plans to retire after going for a hat-trick of Olympic 100m titles in Rio were being revised. 
‘I am definitely reconsidering. I think my fans especially have really voiced their concern about me retiring,’ said Bolt.
‘They think I should carry on and so do my sponsors. I have discussed it with my coach and he says it is possible. We will see what happens but it’s on the cards that I will extend it by one more year.’

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Bolt, who maintained his status as the top sprinter on the planet when he claimed three golds at the World Championships in Moscow this summer, would become the oldest 100m champion of all-time if he won gold at Japan in 2020, when he will be on the verge of  turning 34.
But he said: ‘I have not thought about that. It’s a long way away. But, if I win the next Olympics, I will have done everything I wanted to do in my career, so there would be no reason to continue.’
Addressing the issue of drugs in athletics, Bolt revealed he was constantly under scrutiny from testers. However, he supported even more testing.
‘We have remedies in Jamaica — lime and honey,’ he said, when asked about how he dealt with a case of the sniffles. 
‘You have to be careful. On the list of banned substances, they put on and take off things all the time. So you might think something is all right, then the next week it’s on the list. You have to be so careful.’