Usain Bolt, the eight-time Olympic sprint champion, began an "indefinite" training period with the Mariners with a 15-minute passing drill under the eyes of head coach Mike Mulvey.
Bolt will train for several weeks with the Mariners which are based at Gosford, north of Sydney, in the hope of winning a contract to play in the A-League from October.
Bolt has a long-held ambition to play professional football and, since his retirement from the track, has trialled with Germany's Borussia Dortmund and Stromsgodset in Norway.
Andre Russell, who has been retained by KKR, missed last season's IPL owing to a one-year ban from cricket after violating a whereabouts clause.
The young boy is among 14 budding athletes who have been selected to train at the Racers Track Club in Kingston, Jamaica, home to eight-time Olympic Gold medallist Usain Bolt.
The world braced up to a post-Bolt era but for India there was no momentous change as the country's athletes did nothing for the global audience to take note of.
Welcoming Bolt's appointment ahead of the opening Ashes Test in Brisbane, Australian batsman Peter Handscomb informed that the Jamaican sprinter has been giving his side few pointers on how to get a little bit faster.
Johnson felt that Bolt should have retired after winning the triple gold medal at the Rio Olympics.
Retired Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt jumped in a sports car for two laps with Mercedes driver and Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton ahead of Sunday's U.S. Grand Prix.
Usain Bolt is the only sprinter to capture the 100-meter and 200-meter track titles at three consecutive Olympics.
As for the future, Bolt says he is interested in playing soccer and possibly settling down and getting married.
The end of Bolt's career was far from perfect, a bronze in the 100m and he didn't make the finish line of his last race, the 4x100m relay as he had to limp off the track with an injury.
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Usain Bolt’s glittering career ended in extraordinary drama on Sunday as he suffered an injury midway into his anchor leg of the men's 4x100 metres relay and pulled out of the last race of career at the World Athletics Championships
After 10 years a new champion will arise after Bolt not participating in the race but he still has the 4x100 relay at the end of the meet.
American Gatlin made a tactical mistake in Beijing in 2015, going into his lean too early as Usain Bolt won by 0.01 seconds.
At 50 meters, Bolt started pulling ahead. At 75 meters, he was looking to his left, where he saw nobody. At 90 meters, he was shutting things down to coast to the finish line.
For a country which has taken part in every championships since the first one in 1983, legendary long jumper Anju Bobby George's bronze in Paris 2003 has been the lone medal at this global stage.
Usain Bolt, the superstar who went 9 for 9 at the Summer Games, shattering records while dancing and smiling his way through the journey, dispensed any notion he might come back.
Usain Bolt - the man who reshaped the record book and saved his sport is saying goodbye.
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