Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

Usain slips on the wet track and runs down Powell, running through the line into a -.9 wind in 9.77.

Results aren’t up yet, I’ll edit the OP when they are.

I was a bit off on the wind, I could have sworn that was what it flashed on the screen though.

Official Results - Men - 100 Metres - Wind : -1.3 m/s
Pos   Athlete

1     Usain Bolt     [JAM] JAM     9.77     20
2   Asafa Powell   [JAM] JAM   9.83   16
3   Nesta Carter   [JAM] JAM   10.07   14
4   Michael Frater   [JAM] JAM   10.08   12
5   Travis Padgett   [USA] USA   10.15   10
6   Kim Collins   [SKN] SKN   10.22   8
7   Churandy Martina   [AHO] AHO   10.24   6
8   Ronald Pognon   [FRA] FRA   10.26   4
9   Mario Forsythe   [JAM] JAM   10.36

Great to see someone push Bolt. It’s good for the sport and will keep him ‘honest’ in years to come.

We were robbed of seeing another 9.6 today. Without the rain or the wind, that should have been another WR.

00Scoots - 05 September 2008 03:11 PM

We were robbed of seeing another 9.6 today. Without the rain or the wind, that should have been another WR.

Agreed. Hopefully, he doesn’t pull a Carl Lewis impersonation. Carl and Marsh let up in the 200m and missed breaking WRs that they probably thought they’d get ‘another day’ and never did. Lewis likely did the same in 84 LJ finals. Will Bolt ever run what he could have run that day in Beijing. Hopefully but strange things happen and the Olympic year (and the amazing performances that naturally result) only comes around once every four years.

when will the adjusted time be available

Asafa got blown up.  Bolt’s reaction was like .223 and was down by a meter or two around 60-70.  It looks like the best Asafa can do right now is lose and push Bolt to dominate the world.

I wonder what Powell’s split was at 60m. I’d imagine he could pretty easily take Mo’s 60m world indoor record. I’m sure Usain could too but it just seems that he’d have a hard time beating Powell in a match race to 60m.

Also, WTF is up with Bolt’s reaction times? A 0.223 reaction time in a 100m at the elite level is unheard of. It makes his terrible 0.165 reaction time from Beijing look blazing.

Maybe he is so confident that he can win any race that he doesn’t feel the need to worry himself over something small like a reaction time

Perhaps all the work on his start this year hasn’t really been fully internalized yet, thus making it slightly more difficult to simply react?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZnCauVH4o