Usain Bolt joins list of two-sport sprinters

Usain Bolt is far from the first gold-medal sprinter to translate speed into another sport. As the world’s fastest man attempts to catch on with an Australian professional soccer team, a look back at other notable Olympic speedsters who plied other trades (photo credits: Getty Images) …

Justin Gatlin, Football

The 2004 Olympic champion tried out for the Houston Texans, Arizona Cardinals, New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a wide receiver in 2006 and 2007, during his four-year doping ban, but never being signed a full contract.

“I was very green, didn’t know how to run a route at all,” Gatlin told The Postgame in 2007, adding that then-Bucs coach Jon Gruden nicknamed him “Gold…