Usain Bolt filmed digging grave for Team GB Olympian who tragically died
By Andew McDonald | Daily Star |
Heartbreaking footage shows Olympic legend Usain Bolt digging a grave for Team GB silver medalist Germaine Mason following his tragic death.
Tear-jerking video sees Bolt, 30, digging dirt into a wheelbarrow in Portland, Jamaica, to lay Mason to rest.
Friends and family watch on as the world record-holding Olympic gold medalist continues to dig at the burial site before the clip ends.
Mason died at the age of 34 from a motorbike accident on April 24 after attending a party in Kingston, Jamaica.
Mason was riding alongside Bolt in the early hours of the morning when he reportedly swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle.
“Right now it is very hard on me as we have grown very close over the years from the World Juniors in 2002, and we have come up through the ranks together,” Bolt told the Jamaica Observer.
“We have both succeeded in our different events and for me I have to be strong for the parents and the family,” he added.
“I had to come here and do anything for the family in any way possible, and it is just an honour.”
Mason is due to be buried this Sunday (May 21).
The star won several gold medals in the World Junior Championships before going on to win the silver at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Mason was just one of many much loved stars to have died this year, including former England manager Graham Taylor and TV star Tara Palmer-Tomkinson.
