Bolt Explodes With 19.7 200; Believes Sub 43 400 is Possible!

He should work on an open sub 45 before he starts thinking of sub 43....really.

He only has .13 on Michael Johnson in the 200 and Johnson was better at the 400 than the 200. Doesn't seem likely.

Are you sure he said that? That is highly unlikely he'll do it.

Isn't 19.7 a little pedestrian for someone who has a 19.19 to his name?

ya..... wrote:

He should work on an open sub 45 before he starts thinking of sub 43....really.

He obviously isn't in his best shape. But he did. Go 45.3 at age 16.

Reporting Live from Oslo wrote:

That would be massive if he can do it - "One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind".

"...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

And no, improving the 400 M world record in a race by a quarter second is absolutely nothing like putting a man on the Moon. Bolt already did about the same thing in the 100 M over the last five years and it was nothing like the Moon landing. So kindly bring your comparisons about running back down to Earth.

You guys are missing the point. Bolt was running a 19.7 when he exploded, this is a terrible tragedy. Track and field will forever remember him, he died young, and with so much potential left...

Go Bolt!

Wood rather see a sub 19

Would love to see Rudisha vs. Bolt at 400m. Wasn't that supposed to happen sometime this summer?

Haha...he said mankind went to the moon!! Lmfao...don\\\'t you know that was all an elaborate hoax, perpetuated by hollywood democrats and the Kennedy\\\'s? These same people brought Obama out of Kenya and made him president. Get your facts straight people, geez....the moon, come on!

I'll never understand why people put stock in what a top athlete says about what's possible. Just because Bolt is fast doesn't mean he has any grip at all on reality. Ability and insight are not correlated. If someone hits .385 to win the batting title this year and babbles excitedly, "I think .420 is possible next year!" will people give the guy credibility?

not a highjacker wrote:

Would love to see Rudisha vs. Bolt at 400m. Wasn't that supposed to happen sometime this summer?

Not a good distance. Bolt would win comfortably. 500m is where it begins to be interesting. 300m longer than Bolt's distance. 300m shorter than Rudisha's distance.

All a hoax wrote:

Haha...he said mankind went to the moon!! Lmfao...don\'t you know that was all an elaborate hoax, perpetuated by hollywood democrats and the Kennedy\'s? These same people brought Obama out of Kenya and made him president. Get your facts straight people, geez....the moon, come on!

Too many drugs tonight eh?

19.79/1.7 is a good but not great time. Johnson was a 10.0x/19.32 guy going 43-low and multiple 43. Bolt is a 9.58/19.19 guy that is slowing down relative to the total distance.

Given that Bolt does not love doing a lot of running, wake me up when he runs 45-flat. From where he is as about the 500th fastest 400 guy (only a couple seconds faster than the womans WR) he only has to improve by the equivalent of going from 10.1 to 9.55. May be it will happen, but anyone betting on this at anywhere close to even odds is throwing money at the other party to the bet.

it would be interesting to see if 400m training would also bring his 200m time down, even if it ate away at his 100m speed ever so slightly.

is there any aerobic component to the 200m at all at the international level? seriously, can they do it on one breath like the 100m, or like swimmers can do the 50m free, or are 200m runners breathing during the race?

bolt might NEED the 400m, just for the sake of motivation. you know, the 7 year itch and all that.

Bolt ran 19.19 in late(r) 2009, and 19.56 early in 2010, and still couldn't touch Johnson's 300m WR. When/if Bolt can run 30.5ish for 300m, then maybe, just maybe, he can be considered possibly in the neighborhood of 43-flat or under....until then, this is all just a pipe dream. And if he really said that (about sub 43) after struggling to a 19.79 with a slight tailwind, then he's completely lost it...out of touch with reality.

Bolt's biggest problem is his unbelievable talent....which enables him to train minimally, screw around, party until 4am and eat chicken mcnuggets, and still win championships(or at least it has until now)...but no way he gets the 300m or 400m WR without seriously buckling down for a full year of hardcore training. Johnson was a workhorse...far better work ethic and training ethic than Bolt.

My bet....no way Bolt ever gets close again....not even to the 300m WR.

Reporting Live from Oslo wrote:

That would be massive if he can do it - "One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind".

Back before he started running the 100m if he'd gone the other way with some conviction he would have ran a sub 43.00 by now. Now it's just talk.

I see him done with the WR setting, I do think we have seen his best days.

Interesting to learn how he managed to run 9.95 looking out of breath to 19.7 in one week

worst poster wrote:

Isn't 19.7 a little pedestrian for someone who has a 19.19 to his name?

He only seemed to start sprinting when he hit the straight.

The others were all up with him on the turn.