updated 11:23 a.m. ET April 12, 2009

BERLIN - Three-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt said he tried marijuana as a kid, the German newspaper Bild reported Sunday.

"In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too — but I was real young then,'' Bolt told the paper. "My family and my friends don't smoke and I don't hang out any longer with people who smoke.''

Bolt set world records in the 100 and 200 meters at the Beijing Olympics and was part of the Jamaican team that broke the world mark in the 400-meter relay.