Car crash keeps Bolt from meet
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt has dropped out of a weekend track meet in Jamaica after being lightly injured in a car crash.
Bolt's agent, Ricky Simms, says the main injuries were to Bolt's left foot when he stepped on thorns as he got out of the wrecked BMW.
Simms said Thursday that Bolt will skip Saturday's Kingston International as a precaution and.
Bolt lost control of his car on a Jamaican highway Wednesday and a police officer said he apparently had been speeding.
The 22-year-old sprinter won three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, all in world record times.
