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RICKY SIMMS can pinpoint the day his life changed.

Of if you wish, he can be more specific and will talk you through the 9.69 seconds on August 16 this year that catapulted him from an existence in the boardrooms and backgrounds of athletics to a controlling stake of airspace at the highest altitudes of world sports.

For the past six years, Simms and his PACE Sports management team have guided the affairs of Usain Bolt, the 22-year-old Jamaican masterpiece of anatomy, attitude and sprinting genetics.