The Jamaican, who is currently touring England to promote his new book, "Usain Bolt: 9.58", which is published on Thursday (September 2), plans to defend the Olympic 100 and 200 metres titles he won at the 2008 Games in Beijing.

"If I win at the World Championships in [Daegu] Korea next year that will be one set of titles defended but then I want to win the Olympics to complete the job," he told The Sun.

"Winning one Olympics is good, of course, but it's only if you do it again that you can be a legend and here in England is where I want to make it happen."

Bolt has even boldly declared that he is targetting his own world records of 9.58sec for the 100m and 19.19 for 200m.

"I want to break the world records all over again as well," he said.

"That is what the fans want and it's what I want to do for them.

"The people out there love me.

"The British athletics fans have always been very good to me so this would be a great place to get gold medals.

"I think London will be one of the biggest Olympics ever, especially for me, because there are a lot of Jamaicans who live over here and there are going to be thousands out there supporting me.

"I can feel the excitement looking at the stadium.

"I will never forget first seeing the Bird's Nest Stadium in China and thinking what an amazing place it was.

"Now here I am looking at where I will be running in two years' time.

"It should be fun.

"I'm sure it will get more exciting next year when I will be back in England for training.

"London is like a second home to me.

"I live here when I'm racing in Europe and use the city as a training base for the season.

"I enjoy being here to prepare for big events.

"It's quiet where I stay and I can get on with life."

Bolt also claimed that nothing should be read into his surprise defeat to main rival Tyson Gay in Stockholm earlier this month.

"I didn't expect much from this year," he said.

"I never wanted to lose but it's part of life.

"I knew I wasn't in the best of shape.

"If you're going to be injured it's best that it's this season when nothing's really going on.

"You wouldn't want it to be next season when it's the World Championships or the one after that which is the Olympics.

"I went to the doctor after Stockholm because my hamstring was tight.

"He said my back was in spasm and that if I continued competing I could get a bad injury so it wasn't worth the risk.

"Nothing has happened this year which makes me think I might have lost my edge or anything like that.

"I know what I need to do to get back on track and I will do it.

"I'll put in the hard work and that will be my focus next season.

"We didn't want to do too much this season because you can't push your body every season or it's going to run out of juice.

"If you push yourself year after year after year then when you are 27 or 28 your body is going to run out of energy and the fibres will start tearing.

"You need to give your body a year to rest and recuperate and this was my year to do that.

"I think Tyson was happy to beat me but most of the athletes took the year easy.

"Some took the year off altogether.

"This year isn't that important for a lot of us. I can tell everyone I will get myself back fit and ready for the World Championships and Olympics."

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