Usain Bolt isn’t just the fastest man in the world over 100 metres, he’s quite a character as well. He can sing, dance and DJ and is quite used to keeping the spotlight on himself.
So the Olympian was uncharacteristically stunned at a press conference on Wednesday when a reporter stood up and told him that he had no question for him, but just wanted to tell him that he loved him. And then he rapped in something that sounded vaguely like a Jamaican accent.
The athlete was so stunned that he actually heard him out with a smile and then quickly fished out his phone.
“Do it again for Snapchat!”, he begged the reporter.
And so the reporter did.
See how that went:
But it was just another day for the the Jamaican who exited his press conference doing the samba:
As this BBC reporter pointed out though, the press conference was pretty much on the lines of what to expect when Usain Bolt is in town.
Here’s a nice roundup of that press conference.