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Usain Bolt says his whole world crashed in when he was booed by the Jamaican crowd. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s fastest man Usain Bolt has revealed that he almost gave up sprinting in 2006 when he was booed by Jamaican fans for pulling out of a race injured.<\/p>\n

The star, who was only 19 at the time, began his leg of a 4 x 400m race at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica, but soon had to stop after pulling his hamstring.<\/p>\n

As he limped off the track, some home fans decided to boo him. Some even shouted that he\u2019d simply given up because he knew he wasn\u2019t going to win.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography, serialised in The Times, Bolt describes how the incident left him questioning his ability as a top-level sprinter and his desire to continue his promising career.<\/p>\n

Bolt wrote: \u201cHonestly, I had never imagined a time when a Jamaican crowd \u2013 my own people that had cheered me on so loudly when I\u2019d won the World Junior Championships in 2002 \u2013 would boo me as I came off the Kingston track.<\/p>\n

\u201cForgot the pulled hamstring, this was pain on another level. I was only 19, and the criticism hit me hard.\u201d \u2013 Jamaica Observer<\/a><\/p>\n

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