Before Usain Bolt became the first man to win three consecutive 100 metre Olympic gold medals at the 2016 Rio Games he was struggling with motivation but a podcast which featured his ‘biggest competitor’ Justin Gatlin fired him up. USA’s Gatlin had said on the podcast that he was going to win and that lit the fire again for Bolt, widely recognised as the greatest track and field athlete. “I remember in 2016, it was coming up to my last Olympics and my biggest competitor was Justin Gatlin and throughout the year I was struggling with motivation because I had won everything… and I was like going to training and the older you get the harder it gets. I was just tired and everyday was like work and I got injured and it was double the work for me. It was hard to motivate myself everyday,” Bolt told the High Performance podcast. But Gatlin saying that he would travel around the world with the Olympic medal around his neck motivated Bolt to train harder than …