Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt may seem rusty, but his coach Glen Mills and manager Nugent Walker expect him to be on top of his game heading into the Racers Grand Prix on Saturday, and the Jamaica Trials shortly after.

Bolt has ran twice this season winning at the Cayman Invitational on May 14 in 10.05 seconds, in his first race since August 29 last year. He returned on May 20 and clocked 9.98 seconds in Ostrava at the World Challenge meet.

Racers Track Club president and head coach, Glen Mills, who has guided Bolt to unprecedented heights, said as a coach he is never satisfied.

“He has only run twice, so he would still be rusty. But the competition on Saturday and the trials at the end of the month will go a far way in him getting rid of that,” Mills told the Jamaica Observer weekly Monday Exchange at the newspaper’s Beechwood Avenue headquarters.

Bolt and his Racers teammates Yohan Blake, Kemar Bailey-Cole and Warren Weir have all returned from injuries at some point and the coach pointed out that things are looking good.

“But what I can tell you is that training has been going fairly well as they are preparing for the meet and trials. As to where they are, you and I will find out the same time starting Saturday,” said Mills.

“I think we could be doing more, but based on where we are, and remember the Olympics is two to three months; and the important thing is that they are training well and we haven’t really started real intense peaking. Hopefully, from this meet leading into the trials, we will achieve the first level and so on,” said Mills.

He continued: “To say I am satisfied, not what I would really like to see. But I am happy to the point where we are because there are not injured and they are training.”

Mills says competition is the only true measure to determine the true state of an athlete.

“The beauty of competition is that it is the only measuring stick to give you a true picture as to where you are at any point in time. What you do in training is only a guide, because sometimes you can be misguided,” Mills explained.

“Usain has run twice, pretty low-keyed races. But that’s him, he’ll get better and step up significantly as he goes along,” he added.

“Blake has gone sub-10, which is a good fillip for him coming back from where he was. Warren (Weir) has been running mainly 100s so far and he has achieved like 10.03, which is very good for him and Bailey-Cole won at the May meet. So if you look at what is there, then the foundation is being built,” said Mills.

Meanwhile, Nugent Walker, the manager of Usain Bolt, says the double world record holder strives on competition and will get it right on the day.

“Usain is one that lives for competition, so I don’t think it can ever be guided by how he looks prior to the games. He is one that loves to compete. He is driven by people saying he can’t. So write that he can’t and it’s easier for us to win,” Walker revealed.

“Usain will find the balance between what is required and what is needed. When it comes to partying Usain likes to enjoy himself. But he is very good at knowing when it matters most and his history has shown that he has proven to be there on the day,” Walker reiterated.

“Usain loves the big occasion and the biggest occasion in track and field is the Olympics so we expect nothing less,” he added.