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Usain Bolt Remembers The Time He Had A Boozy 3AM Race With Mickey Rourke

Usain Bolt Remembers The Time He Had A Boozy 3AM Race With Mickey Rourke

Guess who won

Joe Baiamonte

Joe Baiamonte

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Despite being in his mid sixties and having led a life of debauchery, Mickey Rourke once decided that he could definitely beat the fastest man in the history of Earth in a pissed up 3am race.

Usain Bolt has recently shared the story about the time the Oscar nominee challenged him to a street race. As you do when you're in the company of a nine time Olympic champion.

Talking to Complex Sports' Russ Bengston, Bolt recalled the utterly bizarre story about legging it down a street with the BAFTA award winning former wild child of Hollywood.

"He challenged me to a race and I thought he was joking he's like 'let's go!' In the streets at like 3 in the morning, he took his shoes off and everything. Like for 20 meters."

When asked about how much he beat Rourke by, Bolt simply laughed and said, "It was good though, it was good fun." But while it might seem like Bolt is being modest and not wanting to embarrass his actor friend, Rourke conducted an interview in 2012 in which he claims to have beaten the nine time Olympic gold medallist.

Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke

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"We were outside the Wellington in Central London and it was four in the morning. It was just that time of the night, you know, when anything can happen. So I went up to him and I said, 'Come on, you are the world's fastest man, let's go.'

"There was a space in the street of about 30 meters. I got him to back up about four paces, we set off and I got him by a few inches."

To be fair, if not many people were around for the race, you might as well say you won, so fair play. I'd have done the exact same thing. Then again, I'm a big Randy 'The Ram' Robinson fan, so I'll believe pretty much anything Mickey Rourke says.

(H/T USA Today)

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Topics: Usain Bolt