“A lot of people keep suggesting I should be going up to 400,” he says. “I don’t think I’m going to be doing it anytime soon. I don’t want to say anything too much because my coach might hear and want me to run it. But anything is possible.”


Where Bolt’s concerned that’s certainly true. “You know at 16 he ran 45.35?” says Cameron, his eyes wide in memory.


“He doesn’t like running the 400, I know that, but when he gets tired of running 200s he’ll move up, for sure. He promised me. For now, he still wants to run faster in the sprints.”


So how will Cameron persuade him to take up the challenge? “It’ll be a question of his national pride,” says Cameron. “If he doesn’t see the 400 in Jamaica improving he will probably decide to move up himself. He will want to put us back on the map.


“We keep on doing badly in the 400 and sooner or later he’s going to realise that and he’s not going to like it. Then he’ll move up.”