Will Olympic legend Usain Bolt join Manchester United? By QMI Agency

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Usain Bolt wants to take his talent from the Olympic track to Old Trafford.

The sprinting legend, who just won the 100-metre dash for the second-straight Games, swears he’s now setting his sights on joining the legendary Manchester United soccer club.

“People think I am joking, but if (manager) Alex Ferguson called me up and said: ‘OK, let’s do this. Let’s have a trial,’ it would be impossible for me to say no,” Bolt, 25, told Britain’s The Sun newspaper.

“I would not take up the challenge if I didn’t think I was good enough. I am a very accomplished player and know I could make a difference. I would be the fastest player on the team, but I can play as well.”

Though such a transition would be rare, he certainly wouldn’t be the first track star to use his speed to enter another sport.

Herb Washington, for one, won an NCAA title as a sprinter at Michigan State University. Despite a lack of baseball experience, he later joined the Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics in 1974 and played more than 100 games as a pinch runner — never taking a single at-bat.

He was on the World Series-winning Athletics team in 1974 and was released the next season.