Relocating Notting Hill carnival would kill it off, says Usain Bolt on first visit | Notting Hill carnival

USain Bolt said that any attempt to remove the Notting Hill carnival from its traditional house would kill one of the most important cultural activities of England.

Bolt, the fastest man in the world and the Olympic Gold Medal eight times, made his first trip to Europe’s largest street party on Sunday.

2 million people were expected to participate, while organizers expressed their concerns that a challenge in finding sponsorship in the rise of this year’s pressure pose an existential threat to activity.

“To get something that is very big and cultural for years, to lose something like this, I think culture will certainly harm itself,” Bolt said after appearing in one of the sound systems on Sunday.

The old sprinter said that he had heard the long past of the carnival: “For something [like that] It will really affect this culture and people in general to go down just to go down. Because, even before I went to Notting Hill Carnival, I heard many times. One thing you see on TV, your friends tell you this and say: ‘You should come. This is a different vibe. ”

Bolt said he learned a lot about his origins as a free street party during his visit. It would not be the same. It would not be the same.

“Knowing what the carnival is – this walking, vibrations and energy – putting it in an area where people cannot move, it will not be the same… I think it will definitely kill. Many people probably wouldn’t go so much.”

After the appearance in Carnival in the Mayfair hotel room, he said as part of a sponsorship agreement with the clothing brand Puma: “It was something I never experienced – a vibe we came together and built something different.”

The market is traditionally family day in the carnival. This year, it started with the celebration of J’Uovert, people cover each other with paint, colorful dust and chocolate.

The festivals started at the Great Western Road, where judges were standing at a stop to watch the colorful float procession. A woman in the glittering gold styls passed because an enthusiastic Soca Mc was jumping in the air with the hands of the crowd.

Before the first passage ceremony arrived, fast -paced drums could be heard and felt. It is decorated with costumes, including street flutes, rice tools, steel drums and giant colored wings.

The flags representing the countries from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago poured on the shoulders of dancing and cheering. A mixture of adults and children dressed in jewels, glittering wings, belts and headings jumped down the street, and then the buoys who pumped bass and music came.

While Paddington Arts Float passed, Lorry Reading Let’s Dance Fighting Fight and Naval Theme talked about the volcano purple and blue dancers.

The side streets had chicken chicken, curry goat, red strip and ROM punch cocktails. In other streets, rising sound systems and stages were established by playing Reggae, DUB and Drum’n’n’bass. The locals leaned from their balconies and windows and watched the following celebrations.

This was Claudette’s eighth visit to Sparen’s Carnival. Originally from Curaçao, but the medical worker living in the Netherlands, he said he loved everything about it. “People are very beautiful, very polite, very happy – the best people I’ve ever met,” he said. “We like to be here. Bigger [than before] And there are many young people. Everyone has fun and you see different culture together. I love that. “

Sabina Challenger of Hackney in East London joined the beauty float with her child. “Carnival unity and people bring together, reminding the society what the West Indian community brought to England,” he said.

“It also helps us to remind us where we came from. It is caused by slavery and pressure, but a celebration not only in England but in the world.”

All major music and sound systems were still covered with scaffold and wrapping and closed at 15:00 for three minutes to honor those killed in the 2017 fire at the Grenfell Tower on the counter on the carnival route. People also honored Kelso Cochrane, who was killed in a racially motivated attack in Notting Hill in 1959.