Could it be that Bolt wanted to let his up and coming young training partner win, but didn't want to deal with the media wrath by getting beaten. False starting like this would be a easy way to step aside, without actually losing, let his buddy win, and still get all the attention. Seems like a win win to me.
Watch Bolt crush the field in the 200m.
WTF!!!!! I thought you guys were just messing around!
We were discussing the English idiots false starts and my wife said just before the final that could happen to Bolt. I said no way and was demonstrating how to start and how easy it is
Then he goes and does it!
It is easy though. Imagine a concert pianist not putting a finger on the wrong note over two hours and thousands of chords
All a spinter has to do is make sure they don't go before the gun. One note to press and the muppets contantly hit a bum one
GUH wrote:
Yes, now we can all thank the IAAF for helping destroy track and field.
We all knew something like this would happen.
The question was when.
How does this help destroy the sport?
Bolt false started and he was DQ'd, period. He didn't need a great start to win, especially with the watered-down field he was facing. This should have been his easiest world title.
And Blake wins in a pedestrian 9.92
What a freaking disappointment. Well at least the obvious druggie did not win.
Congratulations to Blake
Two other thoughts:
1) Maurice Greene looks like a genius. I ridiculed him when he said Blake would beat Bolt:
Blake didn't beat Bolt. Bolt beat Bolt. Blake beat everyone else.
I thought that this would have been obvious. All that anticipation, all that waiting for the 100m match-up of the year... and all the millions of fans and viewers got to see were Usain's abs.
Rojo and Wejo, you guys are such freaking idiots some times. Maurice Greene does not look like a genius because BLAKE DIDNT ACTUALLY RACE BOLT. HE WON THE RACE BUT HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY RACE BOLT SO YOUR ARGUMENTS ARE STUPID AND INVALID. That's like that one time you thought John freaking Kellog was a "genius" for predicting that the time would be under 2:04:00 on such a "hard" course in Boston.
Boston is not a hard course, get it out of your head. It's about a minute or so quicker than the freaking other majors because of its downhill. I actually was confident before the race a WL time would be set for the marathon because looking at the conditions its OBVIOUS TO anyone that if the pace was fast a fast time would be set considering the fast course. i have ran Boston and the downhills, and if your a good downhill runner its a very fast course. These guys are elites, not hobby joggers. They know how to run downhill considering they train for months for this one race. So stop thinking your so great and smart when you really aren't. Just saying.
I had the same thought. Maybe his people tested him today, and they found something.
on purpose wrote:
I suspect this was done on purpose to avoid a drug test.
Maybe we should ask Bolt how it feels to have a white guy (Chris L [France]) beat him?! I know Bolt beat Bolt. B.S. If you are dq'd from/in a race then you are beaten by the rest of the field.
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Rojo and Wejo, you guys are such freaking idiots some times. Maurice Greene does not look like a genius because BLAKE DIDNT ACTUALLY RACE BOLT. HE WON THE RACE BUT HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY RACE BOLT SO YOUR ARGUMENTS ARE STUPID AND INVALID. That's like that one time you thought John freaking Kellog was a "genius" for predicting that the time would be under 2:04:00 on such a "hard" course in Boston.
Boston is not a hard course, get it out of your head. It's about a minute or so quicker than the freaking other majors because of its downhill. I actually was confident before the race a WL time would be set for the marathon because looking at the conditions its OBVIOUS TO anyone that if the pace was fast a fast time would be set considering the fast course. i have ran Boston and the downhills, and if your a good downhill runner its a very fast course. These guys are elites, not hobby joggers. They know how to run downhill considering they train for months for this one race. So stop thinking your so great and smart when you really aren't. Just saying.
You and "DNFDNFDNFDNFDNF" are f***ing idiots. The point was that the 9.92 into a strong (1.3?) headwind was worth a good enough time to possibly challenge Bolt, not that he'd actually beaten him.
And Boston is a few minutes slow under normal conditions, educate yourself you f***ing moron.
steve "red" wrote:
Maybe we should ask Bolt how it feels to have a white guy (Chris L [France]) beat him?! I know Bolt beat Bolt. B.S. If you are dq'd from/in a race then you are beaten by the rest of the field.
I bet Mr Jared from the subway ad must have been on cloud 9 when he "beat" Haile gebrselassie at the NYC marathon.
The real question is how long until the clowns at the IAAF change the false start rule?
It always should be charged to the whole field, and then next guy is toast.
Why? Why is it too much to ask for sprinters to master the start of the race?
Haile Selassie wrote:
I had the same thought. Maybe his people tested him today, and they found something.
on purpose wrote:I suspect this was done on purpose to avoid a drug test.
You people are incredible. You know samples have to actually be sent to a lab for processing? The don't just take your piss and stick it an easy bake oven and pop out with the results in 15 minutes.
browski wrote:
Why? Why is it too much to ask for sprinters to master the start of the race?
And I cannot figure out why distance runners cannot just stay healthy. i mean, they are always getting injured, wtf is wrong with pvssy distance runners?
Well Bolt falls, the world listens:
ESPN/SI/AP article -
SF Chronicle -
"Looking for tears?" Bolt asked. "Not going to happen. I'm OK."
I agree with what a previous poster said when this does more for the event to bring attention. Bolt was not going to run a WR so what better way for him to break out in a bigger story then get DQd (esp since it was just a false start).
Following David Oliver on Twitter - He said "Usain will now run 18.95 in the 200 meter final" and "Guarantee the IAAF changes that false start rule back next season, can't have that for the Games" as well as later saying "a provision should be made for Championships"
I know this is hard to imagine, but starting in the sprints is actually different than starting your local 5k. They're trying to react in a matter of hundredths of a second, which means from time to time people are bound to start early.
I thought that after a "DQ" a runner can still run "under protest" and then protest the DQ after. Even if it doesn't change the outcome, I am kind of surprised this didnt happen.
On purpose: You must be stupid....they already did blood tests!