WORLD’S fastest man Usain Bolt has revealed that some of his charitable donations have on occasion led to fights back in his homeland of Jamaica.According to reports the athlete told the British tabloid The Sun that he was forced to put an end to annual end-of-year donations of around US$30 000 to those in need, due to the trouble it caused, with the police often being called in to sort out the issues.
“Around December each year I would allocate a certain amount of my own money, about US$30 000, and I’d use that to help people who I thought really needed it,” Bolt said.
“In the end I had to stop because it caused trouble.”
Bolt, who trains at the Racers Track Club base at the University of the West Indies, claims the issue stemmed from those who did not receive aid clashing with those who had.
“I train on a university campus and what happened was the students I’d helped would get into fights with the people who hadn’t got anything,” Bolt said.
“Word would spread and there was a lot of jealousy.
“It became an issue and the police kept getting called out to sort out the fights, so in the end they asked me to stop doing it.”
Bolt, who sprang from humble beginnings in the parish of Trelawny and now has a net worth of US$30M, claims being charitable has become increasingly difficult.
“Every story you can think of, I’ve probably heard it already.
“But one lady told me she’d had internal bleeding for years and wanted money for an operation.
“I said, ‘Lady, if you’d been bleeding on the inside for years you’d be dead’.” (Sportsmax.com)