Usain Bolt signs to play for a Sunday football league with Man Utd legend, others as robot breaks his 100m world record

The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, is registered to play for a Sunday league team in Manchester, with the Olympic champion set to make another foray into football.

The former sprint star, who still holds the world records for the 100m and 200m, has appeared on the squad list for Wythenshawe FC Veterans over-35s on the Football Association Full-Time website.

The team plays in the Cheshire Veterans League and features a side made up of former top-level professionals.

Managed by former Manchester City and Republic of Ireland midfielder Stephen Ireland, the line-up also includes Danny Drinkwater, Antonio Valencia, Joleon Lescott, Emile Heskey, Marc Albrighton and Papiss Cisse.

Bolt, 40, is a major football fan, and has harboured an ambition to build a professional career in the sport since retiring following the World Championships in 2017.

Bolt still holds the world records for the 100m and 200m

His athletic career saw him win eight gold medals across three Olympics, and skyrocket to global fame.

The Jamaican became known for his trademark victory pose.

The star filed a patent application for the distinctive stance to market a range of products including sunglasses, jewellery, hats and sporting goods.

He briefly played for the Australian A-League team Central Coast Mariners.

The Manchester United supporter has also regularly participated in Soccer Aid charity matches over the last decade.

He has also trained with other clubs worldwide, most notably German heavyweights Borussia Dortmund.

Meanwhile, a humanoid ⁠robot developed ⁠by Chinese smartphone maker Honour ran 100 metres (328ft) in 9.32 seconds, China’s state broadcaster has reported, beating the human world record held by Bolt.

The ⁠robot, dubbed Lightning, reached a peak speed of 14.5 metres (47.6ft) per second during a preparatory test event for the second World Humanoid Robot Games, ‌which opened in Beijing on Saturday.

The performance surpassed the 9.58-second men’s 100-metre world record set by Bolt at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009.

China has been promoting humanoid robots as a strategic emerging industry, ⁠with policymakers and companies betting ⁠that advances in AI and hardware will accelerate their deployment in manufacturing, logistics and consumer applications.

Lightning also won the 21km (13-mile) ⁠Beijing half marathon in April in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, ⁠faster than the elite men’s ⁠human world-record pace.

The robot stood 169cm (5.5ft) tall and had 95cm (3.1ft) legs at the half marathon. Researchers have since lengthened ‌its legs by 10 cm to 1.05 metres (3.4ft) before the World Humanoid Robot Games, ‌CCTV reported.