Overview

• At a Tokyo event before the World Championships, Usain Bolt said he is not worried about anyone breaking his 100m and 200m records soon, marking his first appearance at a global meet since 2017.
• He predicted a Jamaican 1–2 in Sunday’s 100m final with Kishane Thompson and Oblique Seville, stressing that execution will decide the race.
• Thompson leads the 2025 season at 9.75 after taking Olympic silver last year, and Seville has defeated Noah Lyles twice over 100m this season.
• Lyles arrives as the defending world champion and reigning Olympic 100m gold medallist who has openly targeted Bolt’s benchmarks.
• Bolt agreed with a Puma-commissioned analysis by researcher Wouter Hoogkamer estimating he could run 9.42 in modern carbon-plated spikes, with the study not yet published.