...meanwhile it’s just another night for Usain
Hockey ace races to gran’s bedside Crowdfunding lift for Para tickets
Pictures: ADAM GERRARD and ALEX LIVESEY SPRINT whiz Usain Bolt kept up his victory lap as he partied on like a champ in London’s West End.
Bolt, 30, was the centre of attention into the early hours, grabbing the mic to sing along to dancehall and hip-hop tunes – but his long-term love Kasi Bennett was nowhere to be seen.
Instead the nine times Olympic gold medallist and his entourage were surrounded by a bevy of glammed-up girls at trendy Cirque le Soir – a favourite with the likes of Rihanna, Cara Delevingne and Lindsay Lohan.
And revellers told how the track ace was bought plenty of drinks to celebrate his birthday two days earlier.
When he left at around 5.30am, a taxi followed behind with six girls inside. But while two accom-
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STEVE HAWKINS, PILOT OF ATHLETES’ BA2016 FLIGHT YESTERDAY panied Bolt and his friends into his hotel, four were left to walk home.
Since clinching his “triple treble” of Olympic golds on Friday night, Bolt has been partying hard and fast to celebrate his historic achievement – kissing a mystery brunette in a Rio nightclub, and cuddling up in bed with the widow of a dead Brazilian drug lord.
But his antics may not have gone down well with stunning SAM Quek had an emotional reunion with the poorly gran she dedicated her hockey gold to. The 27-year-old rushed to Clatterbridge Hospital, in Wirral, Merseyside, to see Dolly Higgins – who had a stroke days before Sam’s win on Friday. ITV footage showed her telling the 95-year-old: “I promised you, didn’t I, that I’d come back with a gold medal. “You should probably have one of these yourself for what you’ve been through the past few weeks, Nana.” girlfriend of three years, Kasi. The 26-year-old Jamaican law graduate, who Bolt once called his First Lady, has yet to break her silence. But she gave hints on social media as to her feelings, liking two posts from fans who took him to task. The first, alongside Bolt’s bedroom pictures with Rio student Jady Duarte, 20, said: “When your girl is Selfridges, and you cheat on her with Primark.” The second, on Twitter, read: “Usain Bolt, you traded your life with a goddess for a one-night fling with someone who will never even come close.” PARALYMPIANS are donating their own cash to a crowdfunding campaign in a desperate bid to boost flagging ticket sales for the coming Games.
American wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden has already pledged £760 – with organisers revealing just 486,000 of two million tickets have been sold.
Money raised by athletes, and members of the public worldwide, will be used to purchase seats before giving them to hard-up locals for the events that start on September 7.
Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, had attempted to buy tickets to offer them to school children for free. But regulations for the city’s upcoming mayoral elections blocked the move.
Craig Spence, spokesman for the International Paralympic Committee, said: “Tickets sales have picked up.”
Empty seats and a lack of atmosphere could mean venues are scaled back.