Jamaican police say Olympic champion Usain Bolt has been in a car accident. They say he is not seriously injured.Reports say the gold-medal sprinter crashed his car on Wednesday and that he and an unnamed female passenger were taken to a hospital in Spanish Town. A police officer confirmed that neither was seriously hurt.
The reports say Bolt was apparently speeding on a rain-slicked highway when he lost control of the BMW M3 and it went off the road in St. Catherine parish. The car was heavily damaged.
The 22-year-old sprinter won the 100 and 200 meters at the Beijing Olympics and was part of the Jamaica team which won the 4x100 relay. All three gold medals were earned in world record times.
Bolt broke the world record in 9.69 seconds to earn gold in the 100 metres sprint at the Beijing Olympics, even though he let up in the last several metres to celebrate. He followed it in the 200 metres in 19.30 seconds, becoming the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to sweep the 100 and 200 gold medals at an Olympics.
Bolt became the first man to break the world records in both sprints at an Olympics. Not even Lewis or Jesse Owens managed that.
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