Flashback 12 years- I'm sitting on my couch with my good buddy Sean watching the NBC Olympic coverage of the 200m. It was a moment I'll never forget. We sat in awe through Michael Johnson's unbelievable 19 seconds of glory and I actually fell out of my seat when the time flashed up on the screen....19.32. MJ had obliterated his own previous world record by a whopping 0.34 seconds and beat back [...]

Well, by now everyone in the world knows that Usaine Bolt is not a human being. At least not by the standards we have been using for the last couple millennium. His 100m performance of 9.69 was just mind-boggling. 9.69 beat Bolt's previous world record by 0.03 seconds and is faster than the WR of just last year by 0.05 seconds. That's like a swimmer breaking a world record by 4 seconds...never m [...]

There's so much good stuff to write about with this year's Olympics I'm going to do a couple series and keep writing as the Olympics go on. The 100m is one event that I'd really like to take a closer look at. If you didn't know, the results are in and a new person has claimed the title of "World's Fastest Human." Since the TV broadcast isn't on until tonight and I know some people don't [...]

Go ahead, try and beat Bolt [...]

The Olympics are fast approaching. Only 11 days go go. Many athletes are making their final tuneups at the IAAF Herculis Super Grand Prix in Monaco, Monte Carlo. This is always a high quality meet and this year will be no different...featuring Asafa Powell, Torri Edwards, Isinbeyeva, and more. Powell's come out and said this will be his last meet before Beijing so it will be interesting to see [...]

The following quote was on the wall in the dining hall at the USOC. I am a great admirer of Jesse Owens. He was a real classy person, who knew racial prejudice of the worst kind, but did not let it embitter him, instead he turned it into a positive and was role model for races and creeds during his life. My first week coaching at Santa Barbara High School in 1969 he came and spoke to our track tea [...]

Every four years it seems the same controversy arises when some star, a sure bet to win the Gold, fails to advance through the trials process. I know it seems cruel and heartless but so be it. There is no other fair way to do it. Could you imagine picking by committee – what a mess that would be, I know enough about the personalities and biases of the people who would probably be the decision ma [...]

How far could you go in 41 strides? 100m? Doubtful. Tyson Gay recently ran the fastest time ever in the 100m under any conditions. He took 44-45 strides (I could only youtube and it was hard to tell) and covered the 100m distance. If Usain was in that race, under those conditions and was on the same race rhythm . . . could he have run 9.5? I recently counted his strides in the Jamaican Trials and [...]

I was stuck in the high performance center for most of the day working with coaches and athletes and maintaining the video network but I snuck away just in time to catch the finals of the men's 100m. It was incredible. With Bobby McFarrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy mysteriously playing in the background (from off in the distance), Tyson Gay totally rocked a 100m field that would seem to be one of [...]

I've been real busy with running the High Performance Center at the Olympic Trials in Eugene and have had very little time to actually see the meet. Today though, I was actually was lucky enough to be out on the infield doing a special video recording and 3D calibration for the men's shot put when I witnessed what may very well be the greatest showing of American sprint depth only feet away duri [...]