Tough losing love and romance in your life this
time of the year. If you thought dis great champion was invincible in all
aspects of life then think again. This girl wants a ring and to settle down.
She’s a good poker player! Usain Bolt got dumped by his U.K. Boo after he flew her to Jamaica to meet his family.
THE British office girl who captured the
heart of Olympic champion Usain Bolt during the Games has ended their romance…
because he lives too far away. Megan Edwards, 22, split from the world’s fastest
man after he flew her to Jamaica to meet his family. The down-to-earth accounts
worker decided that the 4,600 miles between her and the smitten sprinter was
too much to handle, and she wouldn’t be able to handle his globe-trotting
lifestyle either. Devastated Usain, 26, begged her to change her mind, but Megan
revealed: “In the end I had to let my head rule my heart.
“It was amazing out there, but that’s where I decided it couldn’t go on. He was
talking about having to fly here and there and I was going back to my office
job. “So when I got home I rang him and told him it wasn’t going to work. I said
the distance thing and not seeing him often enough was a problem for me. “He was
very upset and said ‘Don’t do it, what can I do?’. I told him, ‘There is nothing
you can do… you are who you are’. “I am just a normal girl and I know people
say, ‘You would have been fine with it’, but I wouldn’t. If I was a celebrity
then our relationship probably would have lasted longer.”
Junior athlete Megan caught the eye of the 100m world record holder when she was
chosen to model Jamaica’s team kit for the Games and appeared on a catwalk with
him. He begged her for her number then bombarded her with texts before they
went on a string of romantic dates. Megan told a friend: “I thought he was
quiet, very handsome and unassuming. I wasn’t star-struck and maybe he liked
that. I didn’t see him as a mega global superstar like everyone else does. “He
was really sweet to talk to, nothing like the shouty show-off you see when he
wins a race. Then I thought, ‘Wow, Usain Bolt has asked for my number’. I was
shocked.”
The couple were first publicly linked in September after they were spotted at
London’s Movida club. By then he had stunned the world with his triple Gold
success. Megan told her friend: “We’d been seeing each other before the story
broke but kept it quiet as he was focused on the Olympics. He asked me to see
him at his place because it was hard for him to go out in public. “I would turn
up, buzz the door and one of his assistants would come and let me in. “We’d
chill out and watch television or I’d watch him play computer games. He really
liked Call of Duty, which is not really my scene but I have younger brothers who
play it. The first time I went around there I was pretty nervous. I thought
‘This is Usain Bolt, for God’s sake, the guy probably has girls throwing
themselves at him left, right and centre, and he’s with me’.
“I wanted to go on a proper date but he was worried he’d get swamped by fans. He
can’t even sit in a restaurant without being asked for his autograph.” During
their secret liaisons the pair began to grow even closer. “The more I got to
know him the more I liked him… it was the same as any successful courtship,”
said Megan. “It was exciting. He is a very funny character and made me laugh a
lot.” The couple carried on their long distance relationship when Usain left
Britain and Megan dared to dream she might have a future with him. She told her
friend: “I did occasionally think about being Mrs Bolt and living in Jamaica
with lots of little Bolts. My feelings were pretty strong for him, strong enough
that I wanted to go to Jamaica. “I am quite a reserved person normally and don’t
fall in love straight away. I try to protect myself and kept thinking I was
possibly competing with 50 other girls. He’s Usain Bolt… he can have anyone.”
She was overjoyed when the track star, who has an estimated personal fortune of
more than £30million, invited her to Jamaica. Megan said: “He asked me to come
see him at his home because it was so difficult to get any private time
together. He organised everything. I flew first- class which was amazing. I’ve
never done that before. I know he is a millionaire and it isn’t much money to
him but it was still nice. “I met lots of his friends and family and his
brother. He lives in a big house in Jamaica with a big garden and swimming pool
and a massive bath upstairs, which I guess he needs because he is so tall. “We
went out to restaurants – well, more like shacks – but it’s what they have in
Jamaica. We would go out at 1 or 2am to nightclubs and we danced to reggae until
6am, drinking lemonade and cranberry juice to keep cool.”
Although it was only a short trip, Megan, who runs for Dartford Harriers Club in
Kent, tried to keep herself in shape. “He took me to the University of West
Indies where he trains,” she said. “He would drive me in the morning and sit and
wait while I finished my session and then we would go back to the house for
lunch. He had a chef who prepares his food for him, but I think most wealthy
people in Jamaica do and we were only eating rice and peas really. “He has a
much more relaxed life there. It’s a tiny island and people are used to seeing
him. He doesn’t get bothered.” But while she was there, level-headed Megan began
to think about what their future together would be like.
“We live at opposite ends of the globe,” she told a friend. “He talked about
flying all over the place and there’s me having to go back to Dartford. “I
really liked him, but I only have a set amount of holiday that I can use each
year and I’mnot going to use it all up going to see Usain Bolt in Jamaica. “A
few things crystallised in my head while I was away and when I got back. So
after a couple of days I telephoned him to call it off. It was very hard and I
was upset too. “In the end he asked if we could still be friends and I said, ‘Of
course… you haven’t done anything wrong to me’. I don’t think he was expecting
it. “It wasn’t as though it fizzled out. It was just at this present moment in
time we are, neither of us, in the right place. “And I told him that it wasn’t
right for us to be together right now and that it just wasn’t going to work out
between us.” Now Megan is concentrating on her own Olympic dream, taking
inspiration from the boyfriend she had to let go. “I hope to go to Rio in 2016
and do the 800or 1500 meters,” she said. “Perhaps Usain will be there too…”
Source: Mirror U.K.
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