Usain Bolt, an eight-time Olympic gold medallist, will receive the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Next week, the event will take place at MediaCity.
“I feel successful. It’s just a nice feeling to know that with [the] commitment and sacrifice that I put in, I could do what I wanted to, he added. “I’ve achieved all I wanted to in my sport.
I always attempt to inspire others by telling them to pay attention, have faith in themselves, and just put up your best effort.
He won 19 times at the world championships, and his time of 9.58 seconds in the men’s 100-meter race set a new record.
A few days later, he smashed his own prior mark to break the 200-meter world record with a time of 19.19 seconds.
He is still the only athlete to have won the 100-meter and 200-meter titles at three straight Olympics (Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016).
Billie Jean King, Pelé, Bobby Charlton, Tanni Grey-Thompson, David Beckham, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Chris Hoy, and last year’s champion Simone Biles are among the previous recipients of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony airs live on BBC One on Wednesday, December 21 at 6:45 p.m.
