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Jamaican and Olympic champion Usain Bolt was
reportedly dumped by his British girlfriend Megan Edwards, who he met during the Olympic Games in London.
Megan 22, and Bolt 26, met when she was chosen to model the Jamaica team
kit for the Games and appeared on a catwalk with him and later when on numerous
romantic dates.
According to the Mirror,
Bolt flew Megan to
Jamaica over to meet this family, but after her return to London she called it
quits because of the distance and Bolt’s busy life style.
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| Bolt and Megan on the Catwalk |
Megan stated that Usain begged her to
change her mind.
“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.”
Megan work as office worker, and is also a junior
athlete who hopes to compete in Rio 2016.
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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’m not 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.”
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