Three gold medal performances (100, 200, and 4 x 100 relay) in world record time at the 2008 Beijing Olympics made Usain Bolt the largest global star track and field has seen in a generation, and the only runner whose name is recognized by the general public.



What fueled Bolt during those Games, what became the breakfast, lunch, and dinner of champions, were Chicken McNuggets. As the Independent in the UK is reporting, Bolt’s upcoming autobiography, Faster Than Lightning, includes his admission that he ate 100 of the battered, deep-fried processed chicken morsels a day for each of his ten days in Beijing.

“At first I ate a box of 20 for lunch, then another for dinner,” writes Bolt. “The next day I had two boxes for breakfast, one for lunch and then another couple in the evening. I even grabbed some fries and an apple pie to go with it.”



Bolt’s simple explanation for the maniacal McNuggets consumption is that he found Chinese food in the Olympic host city to be “odd.”



Distance runners may believe sprinters don’t do much work or burn up much fuel, but the Independent calculates that Bolt’s McNuggets intake amounted to 5,000 calories per day.



At the 2012 London Olympics, Bolt again won three gold medals, but there are no reports of any weird dietary practices by him in the British capital. Perhaps he’s cleaned up his dietary act in recent years. Earlier this year, Bolt told Details, “I try to go for long periods, maybe three months, without any fast food. The older you get, the better you have to eat.” A daily menu for the 6' 5" Jamaican, according to the article, included yellow yams, cooked bananas, saltfish, rice and peas with pork, and a chicken breast.

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