{"id":8061,"date":"2020-05-19T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=8061"},"modified":"2020-05-19T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:49:07","slug":"sprint-legend-usain-bolt-and-partner-welcome-baby-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/sprint-legend-usain-bolt-and-partner-welcome-baby-girl","title":{"rendered":"Sprint legend Usain Bolt and partner welcome baby girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Jamaica&#8217;s Olympic sprint legend Usain Bolt has become a father for the first time after welcoming the birth of a baby girl with partner Kasi Bennett, reports said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness appeared to confirm the birth of Bolt&#8217;s daughter in a social media post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to our sprint legend Usain Bolt (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usainbolt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@usainbolt<\/a>) and Kasi Bennett on the arrival of their baby girl! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bheXPgU7Qd\">pic.twitter.com\/bheXPgU7Qd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Holness (@AndrewHolnessJM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewHolnessJM\/status\/1262386101496492043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congratulations to our sprint legend Usain Bolt and Kasi Bennett on the arrival of their baby girl!&#8221; Holness wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reports said the couple&#8217;s daughter was born on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Bolt, 33, had revealed he was expecting a daughter with Bennett on social media in March, jokingly warning any future suitors to steer clear of his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any man! 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Don&#8217;t play with me!&#8221; the eight-time Olympic gold medallist quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Bolt, the world record holder at 100m and 200m, retired from athletics in 2017 after a decade of dominance in men&#8217;s sprinting.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2016 Olympics, Bolt became the only man to win the 100m and 200m titles at three consecutive Olympics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewHolnessJM\/status\/1262386101496492043\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewHolnessJM\/status\/1262386101496492043\" data-tweet-id=\"1262386101496492043\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Jamaica&#8217;s Olympic sprint legend Usain Bolt has become a father for the first time after welcoming the birth of a baby girl with partner Kasi Bennett, reports said Monday. 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