Yeah. This performance is RI-DI-CU-LOUS. If you watch the race it looks like he doesn’t hit top end speed until 60-70m and then just EXPLODES on the field. I’m excited to see what this means for his 200m performance. Can he now go sub 19.6 (what seems to be the sticking point for mere mortals). Similarly, does this time mean he’ll now run the 100m in Beijing? What about the possibility of a 4x1 WR for Jamaica?
jamaica deff has a shot at the world record.
what do you guys think the order would be?
Thomas-Bolt-Frater-Powell would be my pick, heck you could put yohan blake in there and beat the us the way the have been moving the stick at big time meets
I would go Thomas-Bolt-Frater-Powell. If you watch the video it’s clear to see that Bolt is a good but not great starter. With a running start and a long leg....WOOOOOEEEE. That guy might be able to run a 115m second leg faster than any guy in history.
9.8x used to be HUGE in the 90’s,
now as time has moved on, 9.7x has become the new HUGE.
not that 9.8x isn’t huge, it’s just not HUGE
;D
If that was his season opener,
I belive that he’ll break the record this year.
that is unreal by any sprinting standards.
as far as the 200,
I predict a 19.5, maybe even a 19.4 if he’s lucky enough
and maybe JUST maybe, we’ll finally see mj’s world record broken in the coming years…
also, the 100/200 double in the olympics. I know flo jo did it in 1988, and jesse owens/carl lewis in 1936/1984,
so I hope that a newer more recent sprinting phenom such as usain bolt, can fill the void that has escaped so many great athletes over the past 2 decades
jamaica deff has a shot at the world record.
what do you guys think the order would be?
Thomas-Bolt-Frater-Powell would be my pick, heck you could put yohan blake in there and beat the us the way the have been moving the stick at big time meets
Don’t count our local NY guy Clement Campbell out of the mix. I believe he went 10.02 and 20.20 last year.
Ridiculous is correct, what’s even more ridiculous is the lack of skeptics on this performance jump in only 9.5 months. Adjusting his previous PR and his new PR for wind you still have a new PR by about .22 or .23 seconds which over the course of the race in each 10m segment than his previous PR he would need to improve .023s. I find that highly suspect. Elite sprinters typically only improve .1s-.2s over 1 or 2 segments of a 100m race. This would be akin to Bolt taking ~.5s of his current 200m time which would be a WR or a new second fastest time in history. The thing that sold me on this being a skeptical performance was the 41 steps he took in the entire race, that’s 1 less step than gatlin’s 9.76 Doha performance. Please don’t bring up leg length, that contributes to how high his hips are off the ground and not directly to his stride length, because running has an unsupported phase (there are two instances where running doesn’t have a unsupported phase, but that’s not related to this discussion).
“We haven’t actually decided what we’re going to do. We had a plan for the season and we’re still working on that plan, up towards the (Jamaica) trials. Coach says to give him a few weeks or so and he’ll let me know, so I’m just working off his schedule.
“I haven’t started 200 training yet,” Bolt continued, “so I’m really looking forward to that. I’ll be doing that, starting Monday (19 May).”
heres a quote from him...i jsut wondering what he would mean by this really...no 200m training yet? when Gay is seemingly in amazing 200m shape if you look at his last race...what kind of training wouldnt he have done yet then? and if the 200m was his initial plan many months ago, why wouldnt he have done specific training for it yet?
I would imagine it means that all Bolt has been doing is speed and acceleration stuff, given his 100 time. Jamaica is much weaker in the 200 than the US is so Bolt wouldn’t need to get specific with his training in order to qualify for the national team, whereas Gay very much needs to do so.
