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Olympic champ Bolt to skip track meet surviving car accident
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-05-01 20:18

Olympic champ Bolt to skip track meet surviving car accident
The vehicle of Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt is pulled from a ditch on the Vineyard Toll section of Highway 2000 in St. Catherine parish, Jamaica, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. [Agencies]
"It's too early to say if this will have any impact on his training and racing program in the next few weeks."

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Bolt is also set to come to England in mid-May to run in a special 150 meters street race in Manchester.

A spokesman for the organizers told CNN that they were hopeful the sprint sensation would be fit to turn up. "We are in constant contact with his management team and everything remains on track for him to come," said Norman Hart.

Bolt set world records in winning the 100 and 200 meters gold in the Beijing OIympics and claimed a third gold as Jamaica took the 4x100 meters relay.

He was given the BMW by his sponsors as reward for his incredible success which catapulted him to global stardom.