Usain Bolt’s obsession with ‘Call of Duty’

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For all of Usain Bolt‘s recent worldwide adventures, his home life is fairly common.

“My evening routine is usually just me playing ‘Call Of Duty,'” Bolt told FHM, according to the Telegraph. “I’m OK at it.”

One would hope he’s better than OK, given the copious hours he’s spent playing the gun-shooting video game series over the past few years.

Bolt plays “Call of Duty” against online foes using a gamer tag that keeps him anonymous.

“Once I heard a guy say, ‘I’m trying to kill this dude, but he’s as fast as Usain Bolt,'” Bolt told FHM. “I was laughing.”

Players can talk to one another over microphone while playing the game, but Bolt tries not to speak.

“The people I play against online have no idea they’re shooting Usain Bolt,” he said.

Bolt passed time at the London Olympics by playing FIFA and “Call of Duty.” He was reportedly given a widescreen TV at Jamaica’s pre-Games training base in Birmingham to use his PlayStation.

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“If I lived in Europe, I’d shut the curtains, play ‘Call of Duty’ on my PlayStation 24/7 and never go out,” he said last year, referring to his celebrity status overseas, according to Runner’s World.

He’s played the game with England soccer star Wayne Rooney and with friends, family and online strangers. An Esquire writer watched Bolt play “Call of Duty” on the edge of his king-sized mattress in 2010.

They began playing soon after they woke up, at 10:00 A.M., and by 1:00 P.M., neither has moved, even to go to the bathroom, though Bolt has occasionally shifted his position, loosening his shoulders, stretching his back, switching from playing while sitting up to playing while lying on his stomach or his side.

Bolt told the Sun in England that he was playing “Call of Duty” when he heard about Tyson Gay‘s positive drug test in July. (Gay, too, has been reported to play “Call of Duty”)

“I had to put down the controller and stop playing, that’s how badly it affected me,” he told the newspaper.

He also said the “main room” in his Kingston home is a game room.

“I spend most of my time in there, playing ‘Call of Duty,'” Bolt told the Telegraph

Bolt took Instagram video of his purchase of “Call of Duty: Ghosts,” which was released last week.

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2023 French Open women’s singles draw, scores

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At the French Open, Iga Swiatek of Poland eyes a third title at Roland Garros and a fourth Grand Slam singles crown overall.

The tournament airs live on NBC Sports, Peacock and Tennis Channel through championship points in Paris.

Swiatek, the No. 1 seed from Poland, can join Serena Williams and Justine Henin as the lone women to win three or more French Opens since 2000.

Having turned 22 on Wednesday, she can become the youngest woman to win three French Opens since Monica Seles in 1992 and the youngest woman to win four Slams overall since Williams in 2002.

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But Swiatek is not as dominant as in 2022, when she went 16-0 in the spring clay season during an overall 37-match win streak.

She retired from her last pre-French Open match with a right thigh injury and said it wasn’t serious. Before that, she lost the final of another clay-court tournament to Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.

Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed, is her top remaining challenger in Paris.

No. 3 Jessica Pegula, the highest-seeded American man or woman, was eliminated in the third round. No. 4 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, who has three wins over Swiatek this year, withdrew before her third-round match due to illness.

No. 6 Coco Gauff, runner-up to Swiatek last year, is the top hope to become the first American to win a Grand Slam singles title since Sofia Kenin at the 2020 Australian Open. The 11-major drought is the longest for U.S. women since Seles won the 1996 Australian Open.

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2023 French Open men’s singles draw, scores

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The French Open men’s singles draw is missing injured 14-time champion Rafael Nadal for the first time since 2004, leaving the Coupe des Mousquetaires ripe for the taking.

The tournament airs live on NBC Sports, Peacock and Tennis Channel through championship points in Paris.

Novak Djokovic is not only bidding for a third crown at Roland Garros, but also to lift a 23rd Grand Slam singles trophy to break his tie with Nadal for the most in men’s history.

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But the No. 1 seed is Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, who won last year’s U.S. Open to become, at 19, the youngest man to win a major since Nadal’s first French Open title in 2005.

Now Alcaraz looks to become the second-youngest man to win at Roland Garros since 1989, after Nadal of course.

Alcaraz missed the Australian Open in January due to a right leg injury, but since went 30-3 with four titles. Notably, he has not faced Djokovic this year. They could meet in the semifinals.

Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No. 2 seed, was upset in the first round by 172nd-ranked Brazilian qualifier Thiago Seyboth Wild. It marked the first time a men’s top-two seed lost in the first round of any major since 2003 Wimbledon (Ivo Karlovic d. Lleyton Hewitt).

All of the American men lost before the fourth round. The last U.S. man to make the French Open quarterfinals was Andre Agassi in 2003.

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