Mark your calendars: The 2017 World Championships, in London, could be the setting for Usain Bolt's last sprint.
Bolt told the The Daily Mail that his initial plan was to retire after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, "but my sponsor has asked me to go on for another year; to 2017 and London."
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