Bolt has won three gold medals at three consecutive Olympic Games, also known as the “triple-triple” and he is the first track athlete in the modern Olympics to win three gold medals in an individual discipline.
In the Dec. 12, 2011 issue of ESPN The Magazine*, Bolt describes how scoliosis affects his training:
When I was younger it wasn’t really a problem. But you grow and it gets worse. My spine’s really curved bad [makes “S” shape with finger]. But if I keep my core and back strong, scoliosis doesn’t really bother me. So I don’t have to worry about it as long as I work hard. The early part of my career, when we didn’t really know much about it, it really hampered me because I got injured every year.
Read the entire interview here
