<p>Eschewing delirious crowds at the airport, Olympic sprinting champion Usain Bolt returned to Jamaica in uncharacteristically low-key style.<br /><br /></p>.<p>There were no adoring throngs, none of his signature skyward points or other antics. There was just a quietly organized news conference on Tuesday at Bolt’s restaurant and nightclub in Kingston with a few dozen journalists, business people, and politicians in attendance. <br /><br />Bolt’s publicist, Carole Beckford, said the 6-foot-5 superstar quietly returned home on Saturday, and nobody but his inner circle knew he was back in his Caribbean homeland, which adores him yet wants a piece of him at almost every turn. <br /><br />Last week in Belgium, hours after his last race of the season, Bolt said he was a bit nervous about returning to Jamaica, where his countrymen celebrated each of his three victories at the London Olympics with intense enthusiasm. <br /><br />Crowds of impassioned Jamaicans danced, shouted and embraced in the streets as he dominated the competition.<br /><br />“I’ve seen what Jamaican fans are like when I go back home. That is more scary than anything else,” he told reporters in Brussels during the Diamond League.<br /><br />At Tuesday’s news conference in Jamaica’s capital, the world’s fastest man thanked his coach, his family and his fervent fans for all their support, saying that “there were a lot of doubters” after a sometimes challenging season. <br /><br />Speaking to the cameras, a subdued Bolt added, “I have one thing to say: Never doubt a champion.”<br /><br />For weeks before the Olympics, Jamaicans had been debating whether Bolt or his rival and team-mate Yohan Blake would win in London. Blake, Bolt’s blisteringly fast workout partner, had beaten Bolt in the 100 and 200-metre finals at Jamaica’s Olympic trials and Bolt’s subsequent withdrawal from a meet in Monaco set up one of the most anticipated story lines of the 2012 Olympics.</p>
<p>Eschewing delirious crowds at the airport, Olympic sprinting champion Usain Bolt returned to Jamaica in uncharacteristically low-key style.<br /><br /></p>.<p>There were no adoring throngs, none of his signature skyward points or other antics. There was just a quietly organized news conference on Tuesday at Bolt’s restaurant and nightclub in Kingston with a few dozen journalists, business people, and politicians in attendance. <br /><br />Bolt’s publicist, Carole Beckford, said the 6-foot-5 superstar quietly returned home on Saturday, and nobody but his inner circle knew he was back in his Caribbean homeland, which adores him yet wants a piece of him at almost every turn. <br /><br />Last week in Belgium, hours after his last race of the season, Bolt said he was a bit nervous about returning to Jamaica, where his countrymen celebrated each of his three victories at the London Olympics with intense enthusiasm. <br /><br />Crowds of impassioned Jamaicans danced, shouted and embraced in the streets as he dominated the competition.<br /><br />“I’ve seen what Jamaican fans are like when I go back home. That is more scary than anything else,” he told reporters in Brussels during the Diamond League.<br /><br />At Tuesday’s news conference in Jamaica’s capital, the world’s fastest man thanked his coach, his family and his fervent fans for all their support, saying that “there were a lot of doubters” after a sometimes challenging season. <br /><br />Speaking to the cameras, a subdued Bolt added, “I have one thing to say: Never doubt a champion.”<br /><br />For weeks before the Olympics, Jamaicans had been debating whether Bolt or his rival and team-mate Yohan Blake would win in London. Blake, Bolt’s blisteringly fast workout partner, had beaten Bolt in the 100 and 200-metre finals at Jamaica’s Olympic trials and Bolt’s subsequent withdrawal from a meet in Monaco set up one of the most anticipated story lines of the 2012 Olympics.</p>