Down goes Patton! Down goes Patton!

ok.........................

i see a pattern emerging

a litany of threads with similar titles concerning sprinters

I thought Doc was one of your favorites.

Doc IS one of my favorites.

It was others who suggested that his early 2013 renaissance might be suspicious. I didn't think it was, and if he's injured because of it, I think that would help confirm that he is in fact clean. His body couldn't stand up to the increase that came from somewhere.

But from WHERE did that increase come? All of a sudden he gets super-stronger or is super-motivated or super-jacked, enabling him to come close to his PR early in a season late in his career?

I give him the benefit of the doubt, but you can see how others might not.

Believe it or not, I respect the viewpoints of others on this board, WHEN THEY MAKE SENSE. It is certainly possible that Patton's apparent early-season boost this year was the result of some PED use.

Although I personally believe that's not the case, other's views on the matter should be respected, because those views are IMHO not unreasonable--a 35-year-old having the best year ever is certainly extraordinary, and fair to question.

He is now another person on the list of persons who have accomplished something extraordinary, and who are now apparently injured in 2013.

A Public Service Announcement From the Moscow 2013 Competition Committee:

"We regret to inform you that this year's 100 meter competition has been cancelled due to the lack of a sufficient number of healthy contestants to hold an official race."

BTW, we have SAFP vs Allyson in Manchester this weekend.

Which one...

So USA is 1-2-3 right now.

If everybody stays healthy, that is how things are likely to remain unless Bolt, Blake, or Powell returns to health.

Remember the USA also has Bailey who is 9.8-capable.

9.96 from Rodgers doesn't seem very fast, but that was with no wind, and he is realistically going to get a bit faster. That was a 9.87 or so with strong wind.

IMHO Ashmeade, Vicaut, Carter, Dasaolu, Frater (Gemili? Lemaitre?) and some others have an outside shot at making it in, I think it would take a low-9.9x adjusted time to get there. Of those names above, I think that Ashmeade is the only one who could realistically enter that territory, unless Martina or Dix rounds into form.

The USA is looking good right now, though only time will tell. Jamaican nationals will be the big sort.

Dix is the real wildcard in all of this. If he is healthy, he will challenge for the third US spot.

I don't think it was widely known (or maybe known at all) here, but Dix ran again in the Last Chance Meet at Occidental on 5/12.

Men 100 Meter Dash

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Name Year School Seed Finals Wind H#

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1 Dix, Walter Unattached 10.11 10.30 -0.8 1

So he's now run twice as effectively unattached. Something's not right here. Could be that the ham is really not 100% and he's been told to keep it more or less shut down for now. He won't be at NY DL, and if he's also not at Pre (or runs like he has in LA), he probably won't even be at Moscow.

what's this all about anyhow

is it just printgeezer flexing his giant ego

or is there somethin goin on here

whats the consensus?

Thats a different Walter Dix he's run a couple meets in LA it was discussed on the boards before.

Popss wrote:

Thats a different Walter Dix he's run a couple meets in LA it was discussed on the boards before.

I'm the one who brought that issue up because the whole situation is flat-out wierd. I didn't pay any attention to the 100m at Oxy Invitational because I was coaching. But I was there again for the Last Chance meet, and that WAS Walter Dix. It certainly looked like that to me, and if that was an imposter, it also fooled the folks at Oxy.

He ran an A in his first race and this one was into the wind, but it does not look good.

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Why's this weird? He's lost his sponsor, he's entering and winning races, and he's started the season off a bit heavy.

Same old Dix, except for losing the sponsor. If I were in his shape, I wouldn't try to get into any big meets either, it would only bring my stock down.

He does seem healthy, and I would not count him out just yet. Things might be a bit mixed-up for him right now, but if he can gain some focus he might get lucky.

I think life is catching up with Dix right now.

I am a little confused - I knew about this meet but what is the other one he ran unattached?