BOLT: ATHLETICS MISSING A REAL SUPERSTAR

USAIN BOLT has called for a shake-up in athletics to revive a sport that he believes is suffering from the absence of a superstar able to transcend track and field.

- ALEX SPINK 

Athletics has not recovered from the loss of the world's fastest man in 2017, the void the Jamaican (above) left too cavernous for any one individual to fill.

Mondo Duplantis, Noah Lyles, Karsten Warholm, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Fred Kerley currently headline the male side of the sport.

Sydney McLaughlin, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine ThompsonHerah, Athing Mu and Femke Bol lead the way for the women.

But, truth be told, they remain little known outside of track and field.

"The sport now is maybe just missing a superstar," Bolt, 36, said.

"I mean, when I left, people were looking for the next person who is going to step up and really shine and stand out.