Ryan Bailey blew it and cost the U.S. a Gold Medal in the 4x100

Bailey did fine, it was actually Gay who have up the lead on the 3rd leg.

Right. Rigourous IAAF testing and ratification is not enough. Jamaicans need independent testing bodies, like the American ones that catch athletes doping multiple times before the Olympics, make up some cockamamie excuse to explain away the presence of drugs in the athletes system, and allow them to compete any way.

I think people are forgetting about the injury to Walter Dix.

Healthy Dix in #3 and healthy Gay in #4, and we might have had a different result...or we would have found how much faster Bolt could have gone. We certainly would have had a different result with Dix in the mens 200m.

Bailey had no chance against Bolt and it's to bad he had to be put in that position. But even then the USA tied the WR Jamaica set last year and there's no reason not to be proud of the result.

I seem to remember a certain poster around here who said that the sprint results in London would suck because of the weather :)

weather doesnt matter when the playing field isnt level Jamacia is Dope.

DOUMBIAA!!!!!!! wrote:

Right. Rigourous IAAF testing and ratification is not enough. Jamaicans need independent testing bodies, like the American ones that catch athletes doping multiple times before the Olympics, make up some cockamamie excuse to explain away the presence of drugs in the athletes system, and allow them to compete any way.

Idiot. The US does NOT have independent drug testing. USADA is in bed with USOC, USATF, etc. and drug testers collude with owners and player's unions of MLB, NFL, NBA.

I laughed out loud when I saw the topic title of this.

But then I saw that there were people that were legitimately trolled but this so I frowned.

1/10

Bailey looked great and aside from maybe a couple hundredths on one or two exchanges, so did the rest of the relay.

Lets keep it real. The worst thing to happen to T&F has already happened and it happened right here in the USA. The best the USA has to offer is Gatlin, the same sprinter who was instrumental in that demise. Just based on that, people in the USA are some of the biggest hypocrites when accusing Bolt of doping.

I guess it's hard pill to swallow when you realize that you can line up your best dopers, juice them up to their eyeballs and they'd still be smoked by a natural monster of a talent from another country. Almost single handedly, he took T&F, dusted it off and put it on the highest level it's ever been. Instead of being grateful for that, people like you pretend to love the sport while speaking with a forked tongue. You'd rather make the ridiculous accusation of worldwide anti-doping agencies covering for him than just say the guy is clean.

Wondering in the West wrote:

What a dumb post, do you know anything about track? Bailey was right there and lost to a guy who has run nearly a half-second faster than the next fastest guy ever. Do you follow the sport? So the USATF in a year has to find a guy as good as Bolt ... yeah, right. Quit posting, you're embarassing yourself.

The original poster is insane but wtf are you talking about? Half a second? Are you living in some alternate universe? It's nowhere near half a second.

so you think a clean bolt is faster--not by hundredths, but by tenths of a second--than the rest of the dopers? do you also believe in santa claus? or maybe you just believe in the tooth fairy.

fsdfdsf wrote:

so you think a clean bolt is faster--not by hundredths, but by tenths of a second--than the rest of the dopers? do you also believe in santa claus? or maybe you just believe in the tooth fairy.

I believe you confuse your replies. I made no mention of times.

What a flop. Hope to never see that clown, Ryan Bayley, again in a USA uniform.

All you need is a catchy headline.

Good job OP!

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I said that the weather forecast for the track competition would suck, and that was somewhat true, the weather was actually better than forecast.

The times are surprising, however, given the cool conditions. Do you not agree?

And last, I think it was great for Bailey to be against Bolt on anchor. You want to measure yourself against the best. Bailey's weakest point is his start, which is certainly worse than Bolt's, and which he didn't need to execute on the relay anchor, so I think it was a great opportunity, a great introduction to his future role as the primary US anchor going forward.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

They ran 37.04 to equal the huge previous WR, absolutely crushing the previous, high-quality AR. Nobody else in history has ever been even close to this Jam and this USA team.

And, they did this with an inferior 2nd exchange.

That's all you needed to say. The exchange to Gay was poor and cost them the race, or at least cost them a sub 37 and very close to-the-line battle against Bolt.

Can the rest of your drug conspiracy theories and bad timing devices and funky track nonsense and leave it at that.

(if Bolt is doped, the americans are just as likely to be also, so what's the point)

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Bailey blew nothing. All that can be asked from anybody is to perform to their potential, which he absolutely did. Running the second-fastest 4x100m relay in recorded history is no reason for apology, it is huge!

AGREED 100%

Because of stupid, idiotic, and trolling posts like that of the OP, I RARELY visit Letsrun anymore. Sad, but true.

Go Home to Oregon wrote:

Send Ryan Bailey back to Oregon where he came from. He doesn't belong in L.A.

Agreed. I also hate to see someone with so much class and potential live in that pit.

1987 wrote:

He did not ruin it. If anything i see him becoming alot faster and improving from this. Also Tyson Gay was not at his best especially when he was running the corner (3rd leg) on his not 100% healed hip.

If it were a 2009 healthy formed Tyson Gay on the 3rd leg or as anchor himself, Bolt would have been way behind by time he got the baton.

I actually think Gay held his own with Blake. Looking at the race on video, the two of them took the baton at the same time. Blake looked like he was gaining because he was on the inside and the stagger came into play. As they passed on to the last leg guys, Jamaica was maybe half a meter up. So I don't think there would have been anything more than 0.1 between them on their legs. Gay did fine. He should also be the bronze medallist from the individual event IMO.

Exactly how I saw it.

He was never going to blow Blake away, and Blake did not blow him away. When they came to change they were even, it was more about how long the change took that casued any separation.

And once Bolt got the baton cleanly it was all over. Bailey had the balls to run the leg. No one else wanted a shot at Bolt with a rolling start.

Late reply here but which video were you two watching?

At point of exchange to Gay and Blake, Gay was ahead of Blake by roughly 2 meters. By the time they got to Bolt and Bailey, Blake was ahead of Gay by roughly half a meter. The Jamaican exchange was subpar to that of the Americans and Bolt switching hands didn't help. Bolt and Bailey started their leg DEAD EVEN.

Tyson Gay gave up the most ground and Bailey fought hard but didn't stand a chance against Bolt.