Usain Bolt- World's fastest man, races against a bus

The world's fastest man Usain Bolt famously "raced" against Prince Harry - and now he has taken on a bus.

While the royal managed to "outsprint" the Jamaican, Bolt was taking no chances this time as he made sure he pipped the vehicle to the tape, even at a jogging pace.
The six-time Olympic champion seemed to be taking the exhibition 80-metre race seriously beforehand as he stretched for several minutes in Buenos Aires.
But during the contest on the streets of the Argentinian capital, he realised the number 59 bus had no chance so he did not bother to ramp up his performance to full sprint mode.
After beating the bus, Bolt raced a 120-metre sprint against fellow Jamaicans Mario Forsythe, Kimmari Roach and Daniel Bailey. And it will not be a surprise to learn that he won that event, too.

A female bus driver in China's northeastern Dalian city has accepted a challenge from Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, who in a recent Weibo post dared Chinese bus drivers to race against him.
"Are there any Chinese buses want to race against me?" the victorious Jamaican said on Chinese social media after beating a Buenos Aires bus in an 80-metre race on Sunday.

Bolt's message, elicited thousands of responses from enthusiastic Chinese fans, before bus drivers from all over the country chimed in with their own ideas of a competition with the eight-time world champion
The first to officially take up Bolt on his challenge, Wang Ying, a public bus driver in Dalian with 15 years’ experience, said she was confident she would beat the champion sprinter in a 300-metre race.
Wang said that given the time it takes for a bus to accelerate up to its full speed, it would be unlikely for her to beat Bolt in a 100-metre race. Though the chance of this increases slightly for a 200-metre race, she was "certain" she would beat Bolt in a 300-metre race.
In an interview with Dalian's Bandao Morning News, Wang, who now operates an automatic bus, said she had in the past driven a manual transmission passenger bus.
While Bolt hasn't responded to Wang's offer, it was warmly received by her fellow Chinese citizens, who said they would look forward to such a race.
Zhang Peiming, a famous Chinese track and field sprinter, threw his support behind Wang and said he believed she "would have no problem in winning a 200-metre race."
Below is a picture of Wang:

 

All hail the ‘Lightning Bolt’- His expensive lifestyle:

Usain Bolt is the fastest man alive and the richest runner in the history of track and field with a personal net worth of $30m. He is world famous sprinter of Jamaican origin, with a net worth that grew by more than $20m in 2012. After winning the 100m and 200m men’s finals at the 2012 London Olympics, Bolt became the first sprinter to win back to back sprint doubles at the games. He is also the current world record holder and the current Olympic champion for the 100m, 200m and 4×100m relay athletic events.His exploits have earned him the well-deserved title of “Lightning Bolt”.

 In 2012, Bolt made an estimated $20.3m in salary and endorsements. His biggest paycheck came from the German shoe company, Puma, which is paying Bolt $9m a year to wear their shoes at all times, on and off the track. That number is especially impressive when you consider that Nike’s biggest shoe contracts are usually no more than $1m per year for some of the world’s biggest athletes. But the investment has paid off for Puma, which has seen sales increase by $300m after endorsing the world’s fastest man. Bolt brought home additional millions from huge endorsing deals with Visa; Nissan; Gatorade; Telecom firm, Virgin Media; Swiss watch giant, Hublot; and Mobile gaming company, RockLive.

In 2010, Bolt released a best-selling autobiography, titled ‘Faster than Lightning’, that came with a multi-million dollar advance from publisher, Harper Collins. Bolt also commands appearance fees ranging from $250,000 to as much as $500,000 to compete at track and field events throughout the world. Amazingly, Bolt’s net worth is expected to explode even more in the coming years, thanks to his gold medal dominating performance at the last Olympic games. If Bolt stays on pace, he should be worth well over $100m by the time the 2016 Olympic games arrive.

 The fabulous wealth earned till date ensures the sprint legend enjoys a very luxurious lifestyle. He owns a luxury home at his native place in Jamaica. Recently, he acquired a Rum Cay Island ocean front property in the Bahamas, worth millions of dollars. Bolt has a penchant for very fast and expensive cars. He doesn’t own just one car, he owns a fleet of exotic vehicles.

He drives  luxury cars like a BMW M3; a 2013 Nissan GT-R; and a Ferrari F430 Spider, priced at a whopping $217,000. He is known to hire private jets to fly him around the world.

During a four-day trip to Kenya in 2009, Bolt adopted a baby cheetah, named ‘Lightning Bolt’. The world’s fastest man paid $13,700 to formally adopt the cheetah. The adoption process also meant that Bolt would be paying $3,000 a year to care for the cheetah being raised at an animal orphanage in Nairobi. Incidentally, cheetahs are the animal kingdom’s fastest sprinter.

When asked if he was afraid of cheetahs, Bolt said: “Yes, I was, but not anymore.”