Sprintgeezer wrote:
coach d wrote:Adidas A
Tyson Gay 45.3 (leadoff)
Jeremy Wariner 43.8
He's baaak.
Maybe. d and Flo'da, how did he look? Was he running with confidence? Could he have gone faster? How was his form down the finishing straight? How did he look after the race?
Flo'da, I know you said he looked smooth, but did he look strong?
I hope he's back, although like other posters, I don't think this performance is determinative.
What's more interesting to me is Gay's 45.3 Remember a couple of seasons ago when he opened in a 44.89? Well, to be only .4 off that is pretty darn good, but I'm glad to see that he didn't put up some sort of smoking 400 time--because to me, that would mean that he would be relatively weaker at the 100. I hope he's been practicing his starts/accels more, instead of his 400's. SE and top-end speed he has never had a problem with. He has matched Bolt in that department in, for instance, the 9.58 From watching vids, it looks like almost the entirety of Bolt's advantage was gained between 10-50m
Of course, his start/accel isn't actually bad, but if he wants to be #1, he should focus on it, not on 400 fitness.
idiot.