[quote author="Russell Zacharias (RussZHC)" date="1250748086"]As Hamish said, [quote]“Good for Spearmon to have Bolt outside him, hopefully will pull him through the 1st 100m quicker then usual.”
Thoughts on it being “better” to chase or be chased (run scared?)?[/quote]
I believe it depends on the athlete. Spearmon often seems asleep in the 1st 100m, but he’s gonna have the gold-bait right in his sight and maybe he’ll just go crazy around the bend. I think its ok for Crawford to be in the outer lane since he’s got a lot of experience in big races and has run well from that wide out before I think. He usually runs the bend aggressively anyway so it shouldn’t affect his game plan much.
I think Guliyev will struggle in lane 1, perhaps if he’d been in lane 4 he could’ve pushed hitting the high 19’s with the adrenalin of running directly inside Bolt in a WC final but running out of lane 1 in the 200m is just asking too much. I’m still going with my top 3 from before, Bolt-Spearmon-Crawford and I think Alonso will finish 4th, with Mullings 5th. Then probally Clark or Guliyev and finally Alerte.
Bolt will break his WR if he runs through the tape and the conditions are decent. Spearmon will approach his 19.65 PB, and Crawford will run 19.7/.8’s. Alonso and Mullings will be in the 19.9’s.[/quote]
Well Alonso destroyed my predicitons, but good for him. He’s a young – only 19. Wait a sec, damn! He misses destroying Bolt’s WJR by 3 weeks I think!