Sprinter Usain Bolt, Puma’s star athlete, will retire at the age of 30 following the world championships in London in August 2017.

In a statement to Reuters, Bolt said, “I’ve just done everything I wanted to do in the sport.”

“I asked (former U.S. sprinter) Michael Johnson the same question, ‘why did you retire when you were on top?,’” continued Bolt. “He said the same – he had done everything he had wanted to do in athletics so there was no reason to stay in the sport. Now I understand what he means.”

Bolt won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m Olympic titles at the 2016 Rio Games and led his team to victory last week in the inaugural Nitro Athletics Series in Melbourne.

“I just wanted to run and to be part of it,” he said in the Reuters statement. “I had to take it easy because I wasn’t at the level I would usually be. It was the first time I had competed at this time of the year.”

Bolt is nominated for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award, along with gold medal winner Mo Farah and Olympic tennis champion Andy Murray.

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