9.98 is not NECESSARILY clean, but any time under 9.80 IS necessarily dirty.
IMHO
Reasoning is ample, and has already been provided.
Granted, that reasoning is not bombproof.
9.98 is not NECESSARILY clean, but any time under 9.80 IS necessarily dirty.
IMHO
Reasoning is ample, and has already been provided.
Granted, that reasoning is not bombproof.
He is the 71st person to go under 10 secs. Congrats!
Pee in a cup please
He'll be tied for 5th (with Dix) on the world rankings this year.
He didn't have a great start either. He'll go 9.95 before the year is out.
Next to tomorrow's Powell-Gay matchup in England, this qualifies as the most interesting thing in men's sprinting this year--not because he is white, but because he is 20!
Followed closely by Chambers' return to form clean.
Can't wait to see what Gatlin does when he finally runs and shakes off the dust.
To whomever said his start sucks, his 60m record is 6.55, pretty darn good.
Granted there is room for improvement, and that is where most of it lies.
He really moves well after 30m or so.
He didn't have a great start IN THAT RACE. He has a good start so he will definately lower his 9.98 time.
Whew hooo!!!! That white guy is fast!!!
What a stride.
THE FIRST CLEAN SUB-100 OF ALL-TIME!!
The Great White Doped
Sprint Geezer wrote:
9.98 (+1.3w) qualifies as a clean time.
I guess we have to assume that he is clean, until he runs under something like 9.82 - 9.84
Whatever color he is, 9.98 is a good time this year. He'll be up there on the world lists.
His times also seem to be improving consistently this year. Will he hit low 9.9's before the season is out, with a favorable wind?
I'm not going to say anything that he's doing sucks, but for 9.98, 6.55 is on the slow side. There might be 0.1 in the 100 that he can gain from his first 30, maybe with some heavier weights.
It will be interesting to see what he can do at Rieti, if he goes (modest altitude efect).
D--agreed.
Thinking Rationally wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBU_bx693SA
If that is actually the video of the race, then I have two things to say:
1)he actually slowed slightly at the end and did not push through the line
2)whoever put the vid together has atrocious taste in music.
Big year for us white boys, huh?
A white guy running under 10 is proof positive that drug use is ubiquitous among sprinters.
For a 100m guy he seems to get very little power from his upper body, seems to get everything from his legs and hips, with incredible knee lift. This probably manifests in his relatively slow starting phase, where better upper body power gets the athlete into peak velocity sooner.
Yes, usually the arms are the fastest and the legs follow, hence Charlie Francis' assertion that you sprint with your upper body.
Although it doesn't LOOK like he's getting anything from his upper body, if he wasn't, he wouldn't be any good at running. The upper and lower bodies are a balance--his upper body is sufficiently balanced to his lower body to run a 9.98.
That is a good upper body--at least sufficient to go 9.98 in some wind.
That said, I do think he would, and will, improve as his upper body fills out.
Holy stride, Batman! Unbelievable knee lift, upper leg goes well past vertical in recovery. Maybe the best stride I've ever seen, along with maybe Carl Lewis. Boldon had a good stride, too.
And of course, Bob Hayes.