Passing through Munich for an appointment with doctor Müller-Wohlfahrt, who took care of him during his career and whom he consults today to get back in shape with a view to playing a charity football match in mid-June in Manchester, Usain Bolt granted a long interview The Team, published this Friday. The 100m and 200m world record holder talks about his life in Jamaica, his children, his vision of athletics today and Manchester United, his favorite club.
The eight-time Olympic champion also recounts the financial misadventure that happened to him recently and caused him to lose the tidy sum of 12 million dollars (nearly 11 million euros). Blame it on a Jamaican investment company.
“Boom, suddenly”
“We invested in a bank, a financial institution. An investment started in 2012. And this organization regularly informed us that everything was fine, that it had invested in this and that, that it was growing, he explains. But in the end, I had my money stolen. Boom, suddenly, they announce that everything has disappeared. “Excuse me? What do you mean it’s all gone?” “The money is gone…”
The case is now in the hands of the courts. The investment company is under investigation by the Jamaican government and the FBI. Doubtful about ever seeing his money again, Bolt reassures him: he is not on the verge of bankruptcy. “We were smart enough to diversify our investments”, says with a smile the one who is still – among other things – an ambassador for Puma, the brand that has accompanied him throughout his career. And who always pays him, according to Forbes magazinethe sum of 10 million dollars each year.