The Lunch of Champions: Chicken Nuggets

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↵Thirty-year old athletes are the ones digesting five to six small meals a day, minding the carbs and fat, and doing effete things like “core work” and “stretching.” Twenty-two year old prodigies who run a full second faster over short distances than anyone else in the world can pretty much not do that stuff, eat some fast food, and then roll right into world record runs effortlessly.↵↵Case in point? Usain Bolt’s magic fuel for breaking the sound barrier in cleats is: chicken nuggets.↵

↵↵⇥“You want the truth, right? All right. I got up at 12, yah, 12. My masseuse brought me nuggets, of course. I’m serious, though, he brought me nuggets. I didn’t really want to go to the cafeteria so he brought me nuggets. And I came straight to the track, and my masseuse again brought me more nuggets. I just had two, though, because my coach was saying I shouldn’t eat so much nuggets before the race.”↵↵If you’ll pardon us now, I have to go to the gym and fill up beforehand on Chik-Fil-A sandwiches. I plan on deadlifting 500 pounds with one hand. Should be no problem with the gas I’ll have in my tank.↵↵(Via D.C. Sports Bog, which has plenty more choice Bolt-related quotes from today, including this one from the man himself: “I just blew my mind and blew the world’s mind.” The man speaks the truth.) ↵

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