Kim Collins and Bernard Lagat are incredible!!!

yes!!

To top Collins (PR at age 37, National Record), Lagat has to take down his AR in the 5000 coming up.

We'll see.

Kim Collins gets a NR and PR at the age of 37!

Even more! Collins equalled World Masters record of Linford Christie 9.97 in the 35+ category!!

kim Collins the best sprinter alive haha

I want to hear Sprintgeezer on this Collins...if he's running so consistently in 10.0x/9.9x, probably he could crack low 9.9x for Moscow!!

With low 9.9x...it could be good for a top 5 place.

Ben L Wrong wrote:

They're running excellent times in his late 30's!!! Absolutely incredible!!!

right up there with regina jacobs

With an atrocious reaction time! Same as in his last race, what is with his terrible reactions? A .216 reaction time, with a regular .15 his time would be 9.89!

I'M CALLING IT RIGHT NOW! KIM COLLINS IS GOING TO MEDAL AT MOSCOW

He is in 9.8x shape right now if he can stay healthy which he does well.

I remember an interview a few years back where Collins said he would rather just run clean and run 10.0 and have a long career rather than run 9.8/9.7 and get burnt out with a short career. Wow its amazing how long you can run with his methods he has some excellent training

[quote]body master wrote:

With an atrocious reaction time! Same as in his last race, what is with his terrible reactions? A .216 reaction time, with a regular .15 his time would be 9.89!

I'M CALLING IT RIGHT NOW! KIM COLLINS IS GOING TO MEDAL AT MOSCOW

He is in 9.8x shape right now if he can stay healthy which he does well.[/quote

I don't think he is going to the world champs, Jonathan Edwards just interviewed him after this race and apparently there is some kind of dispute with his federation. Don't know the details.

Jacobs was framed with the help of FBI.

He was booted from the Olympic team by their federation for leaving the village w/o permission to see his wife...

Excellent read about Collins.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2350379/Collins-regrets-breaking-London-curfew-sprinter-sets-sights-40-year-old-Olympian.html

"Kim Collins is the sprinter who was kicked out of London 2012 for visiting his wife. The 2003 world champion, now 37, was given permission to leave the Olympic village for a night but had his accreditation cancelled by St Kitts and Nevis after they claimed he had gone 'missing for three days'. 'Even men in prison get their wives to visit,' Collins noted at the time.

Nearly a year on, Collins is still clearly irritated by being denied the chance to run in his fifth Olympic Games. His laidback, jokey demeanour fades as he insists that all eight men in the 100m final would have gone under 10 seconds if he had been involved. He also thinks St Kitts and Nevis, a tiny island of just 55,000 people in the Caribbean, would have been celebrating a medal in the sprint relay had their 'special' governing body acted more appropriately.

'It was politically motivated and I don't care for politics,' says Collins. 'There's no way a mature, experienced athlete, who is responsible for being part of the team, can be treated like that.

'If I want to do something I do it because it's the right thing to do. I'm not going to mess with my name, the name I was given before I was born: Kim Collins. I love the sport and there's nothing anybody can say that can stop me from doing what I love.

'I was assured my wife could come along as my coach. Everybody knew my wife was coming - it was no big deal. It was politically motivated and the sad thing is, given the chance, they would do the same thing again. They are special, believe me.

'I do believe our relay team would have had a medal and I would have been in the final and all eight men would have gone under 10 seconds. I haven't even seen the race yet. I don't really care to.'

Collins was so excited by the speed of the warm-up track in Stratford that he 'stumbled' when he first tried to run on it. He is back in the UK to compete at the Sainsbury's Grand Prix in Birmingham on Sunday and believes 'records will be broken' when he takes on Usain Bolt inside the Olympic Stadium at the end of July.

Collins was adamant he would never run for St Kitts and Nevis again, but now wants to defend his 2011 world 100m bronze in Moscow in August and carry on to his sixth Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. He has already run 10.04 seconds for 100m this year, 18 years after making his international debut in the 4x100m relay at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, and says he is still 'bursting' to run quick times.

'You are looking at an unbelievable record: 10 consecutive World Championship appearances,' he says. 'I don't think another sprinter will be able to go to 10 World Championships and five Olympic Games and I'm planning to go to Rio, too.

'That will be my sixth Olympics - and I'm taking the fifth in London, I don't care, because I did qualify for it. I will make it to Rio and I will be a 40-year-old Olympian.

'The good thing about track and field is you have to run the qualifying time and they can't take that away from you. They have no choice but to pick me. That's what the IAAF rules say.

'But I'm expected to sign a contract that gives them 70 per cent of whatever I earn in Moscow. There's no chance - I'll only make 22 cents in the dollar. It's not worth it. Plus, on top of that, they want 20 per cent of my shoe contract - shoes, hats, everything else. It's awful.

'They are going to go and go until they kill the sport and they kill the athletes in the sport. I'm trying to fight the battle for the younger guys. But it has been like this forever. The guys are cowering but I am telling what needs to be said. I explain to the world.'

Collins is one of the most naturally gifted sprinters of his generation; an athlete whose relatively slender frame stands apart from the rest of the muscle-bound men on the start line. He has raced against them all - from Maurice Greene, Linford Christie and Frankie Fredericks to Bolt, Tyson Gay and Yohan Blake - but has seldom engaged in the trash talk for which sprinters are famed.

He just laughs - a deep, hearty chuckle - when asked whether the verbal grenades hurled off the track have any effect on it. Then Collins declares the current crop of sprinters have gone soft.

'There's no trash talk now!' says Collins. 'Back when Donovan Bailey and Dennis Mitchell were around, that was extreme trash talk. They would come up to your lane and move your blocks. They would change lanes to be next to you. It was totally different. It's more sensitive now.

'Not many sprinters are cool. It's not a common quality. I remember Linford: he was really cool, someone you really remember, and Frankie Fredericks, too. He shocked me one time in Stockholm when he sat down to play dominoes with us. That's not generally done by sprinters.'

Not by most of them, anyway.

spdydre wrote:

I remember an interview a few years back where Collins said he would rather just run clean and run 10.0 and have a long career rather than run 9.8/9.7 and get burnt out with a short career. Wow its amazing how long you can run with his methods he has some excellent training

In that case I guess Yohan Blake is pretty much done for his career. He burnt his body out dropping his time so quickly to 9.69 into a headwind

Man you just gotta love Kim Collins. Fu the federation, because of them I didn't get to see him run at London 2012. Reminds me of China taking 70% of Li Na's winnings until around 2008. And here's to Frankie Fredericks as well!

I guess Collins' reactions are slowing down with age? He is 37 remember! Although I don't know what was going on with Blake's reaction being .2 in his 200m PB..

to me it just smacks of underachievement earlier in his career

someone had to do it wrote:

Ben L Wrong wrote:

They're running excellent times in his late 30's!!! Absolutely incredible!!!

right up there with regina jacobs

I'm a bigger fan of Alberto Salazar-coached Mary Slaney.

Yeah blake might never be the same. I like Collins I wish more sprinters were like him but many don't think about long careers. Look how Maurice greene burnt out he was completely fried he is only 38 and probably couldn't muster a 10.8 now lol. Like Collins I would rather still be running competitively.

spdydre wrote:

Yeah blake might never be the same. I like Collins I wish more sprinters were like him but many don't think about long careers. Look how Maurice greene burnt out he was completely fried he is only 38 and probably couldn't muster a 10.8 now lol. Like Collins I would rather still be running competitively.

Same with Ato Boldon. He retired in 2004 at 30...and by that time, you can see he was finished (he was eliminated in round 1 At 2004 Olympics). But in some part, that was due a car accident in 2002.

And if we look at Lagat's rivals, it's even more impressive. El G retired at 30, Ngeny and Komen at his mid 20's.