After the action on the day finished in the Olympic Stadium in Brazil, Bolt picked up a spare javelin spear to see if he had it in him to dominate another event.
A select few gathered around Bolt as he ran up and threw the spear where the best javelin throwers in the world had competed just days earlier.
And for a novice, Bolt’s javelin throw wasn’t half bad as he recorded a distance of 56 metres.
It’s an effort that was some way off challenging for gold in the men’s javelin at Rio 2016 with German Thomas Rohler securing the top prize with a mammoth 90.3m.
However, there are other Olympic competitions where Bolt wouldn’t look out of place with the javelin.
Bolt’s throw was longer than four competitors with the javelin in the men’s decathlon and a whole 10m ahead of the worst effort.
If Bolt was competing in the women’s heptathlon then he would’ve won the javelin event as his score was just about longer than Latvia’s Laura Ikauniece-Admidina’s winning throw of 55.9m.
Bolt, who retired from athletics in 2019, lost his ninth gold medal and thus lost his status as the only man to win 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay gold at three separate Olympic Games.