Usain Bolt has called for a shake-up in athletics to revive a sport suffering, he believes, from the absence of a superstar able to transcend track and field.
Athletics has not recovered from the loss of the world’s fastest man in 2017, the void the charismatic Jamaican left too cavernous for any one individual to fill.
Mondo Duplantis, Noah Lyles, Karsten Warholm, Jakob Ingebrigsten and Fred Kerley currently headline the male side of the sport. Sydney McLaughlin, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Faith Kipyegon, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Athing Mu and Femke Bol lead the way for the women.
