Us­ain Bolt again said he doesn't plan to run the 200 me­tres in his fi­nal sea­son, re­al­is­ing that his world record of 19.19 sec­onds is now like­ly be­yond him.

Speak­ing yes­ter­day in Mona­co be­fore the IAAF ath­lete of the year awards, the 30-year-old Bolt said he thought he could dip un­der the 19-sec­ond bar­ri­er at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. But com­ing off the bend in the fi­nal, he felt his legs didn't have a record-beat­ing per­for­mance in them.

"Af­ter last sea­son, I kind of fig­ured out that no mat­ter how hard I work at this point, it prob­a­bly is go­ing to be hard to get the 200-me­tre world record," Bolt said. "And it's a lot more work and for me, com­ing to the end of my ca­reer, I'm not try­ing to do too much work."

He al­so didn't sound op­ti­mistic about break­ing his 100-me­tre record of 9.58, ei­ther.

"If I can go through my sea­son – which I doubt – with­out any in­juries, then any­thing is pos­si­ble," he said.

Bolt ruled out a re­turn for the 2020 Tokyo Games. The nine-time Olympic cham­pi­on said his coach has told him, "'Do not re­tire and come back to the sport, don't ever do that.' ...So you have got to make sure you are sure."

"Not to brag or any­thing, but a lot of peo­ple at 30 haven't ac­com­plished what I've ac­com­plished, so, for me, I think I've done all I want­ed to," Bolt said.

He made it clear that his last sea­son would be more of a farewell tour than a fi­nal dri­ve for more records. He's tar­get­ing a few races in his favourite places: he men­tioned Os­tra­va, Lau­sanne and Paris.

"This sea­son is pret­ty much main­ly for the fans," Bolt said. "A lot of peo­ple al­ways want­ed to see me com­pete and haven't had the chance."

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