Rieti 2014 men's 100m - Gatlin, Powell, Lemaitre, Carter

why wouldnt he run such times nothing has changed.

still has IS base , PEDS .

IGF-1 LR3 (PEAK CYCLE ) AND TESTOSTERONE .

WAKE UP sprinting has chnaged and ...IGF-1 LR3 ....

is the reason

as for some other events .

gatlin said wanted to run till 40 and with this peptide

think that it can be easily be done .

sprinting is even dirtier than has ever been .

with the single best ped discovered for speed to date .

Looks like they have adjusted Powell's up to 9.90, which is still fantastic.

Gatlin looked fatigued to me, it is incredible that he went 9.83 to win this race at the end of a long season, after doubling in Brussels a few days earlier. He really has been a beast this year.

In other news, did they actually get the timing right in Rieti this year? Lemaitre went something like 10.15, which seems reasonable.

Powell has been very impressive. In his short season he clocked 9.87, 9.90, and 9.95 as sub-10 times, all looking good, good form with no injury. This bodes very, very well IMO. He was getting better, with increasing race sharpness, and with a bit more conditioning would have threatened Gatlin this year.

Excluding Thompson's bogus 9.82, Gatlin finishes with 7 of the top 10 times (probably 8 if you go by adjusted times) and all top 6, Powell finishes with 2 of the top 10 times, and Rodgers with 1. Gatlin also finished with 8 sub-10 clockings, by far the most of anybody this year.

His top 5 times averaged 9.816, a smoking average. He was remarkably consistent, running pretty much the same race 6 or 7 times. Notably, what is missing from his record this season is one insane time, something like a 9.6x 9.77 is insane, I know, but I mean a real historic standout performance. Could he have done it with more competition? IDK

duck--

Nobody is arguing with you.

I noticed the track is a different color than what Powell ran on for his 9.74 and Carter for his 9.78.

Is this a new track? Maybe these times are more legitimate than what we've seen at Rieti in the past.

Another lackluster .160 reaction from Gatlin too. He's really consistent around that 9.8-low this year, all other things being equal.

Yeah, insane consistency.

.160 isn't TOO bad, it's better than what he had in Brussels.

Jamaica must be very glad to have Powell back, I think he is liked because he is so mellow. Coming on late in races this year, it looks like he may have gained some mental toughness. IF that's the case, look out for next season.

Kind of sad that Rieti's over now, the season is ended.

Aren't these just heats? Is there not going to be a final with both Gatlin and Asafa? We can still hope for that 9.6x, you know.

I don't know why, but it looks like there was no "final", just 2 timed sections.

Nice end to the season. Yes, there are a couple more meets including an Asian one.

Yeah aduck2022,nothing has changed.Looks like Beijing '15,Rio '16

100 final will be same as it's always been for the last thirty years.

You mean full of drug cheats? I got ya....

Speaking of consistency, here are Gatlin's best races (sub-10's) this year, adjusted for wind and altitude (actually elevation):

Brussels 9.80

Lausanne 9.82

Linz 9.82

Rieti 9.87

Ostrava 9.84

Beijing 9.87

Rome 9.93

Shanghai 9.92

Tokyo 9.79

The average of these is 9.85, with the average of the top, clustered around 9.80, being 9.81

Remember, these are ADJUSTED times.

Ummm, yeah...

What would we be saying had he had any useful wind with these runs? With a max tailwind each time, the top 5 would have been 9.69, 9.70, 9.72, 9.72, and 9.74

Or if he had had something near max wind just once or twice, we would be looking at a 9.6x or a very, very low 9.7x

If the Tokyo race had been run in the opposite direction, he would have gone 9.57, the fastest ever recorded 100m under any conditions.

the drug cheat gatlin

Oops, sorry, forgot Edmonton 9.94

Brings the average to maybe 9.86

One figure stands out looking at that post:

THE AVERAGE OF THE TOP 5 IS 9.81 BASIC.

Unlike A. Merritt, Gatlin has had other excellent years and excellent times, didn't exceed everything he had done in the past by a mile, didn't have his worst performance this year equal to the best of the rest of his career, didn't put himself in the top 10 after never having been there before, didn't set an insane WR.

And yet we are piling on Gatlin for this season.

Pile on and hate Gatlin, if you want, I have no problem with that--BUT DON'T LET ARIES MERRITT SKATE. Take a good hard look at A. Merritt's season of seasons in the 110mH. Gatlin may offend you, but A. Merritt offends humanity. It would be as though before this season, Gatlin had never before broken 10-flat.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4798549&page=2

Getting back to Gatlin, as I described on the A. Merritt thread, we now have the false precedents of 9.58, 9.69, 9.63, 9.69, and 9.72 by which we may tend to judge his performance. Try not to fall into this trap!