CC has that excellent quality of consistent acceleration--that is, there are no hiccups, his rate of speed increase seems much more consistent than other sprinters, who can show weaker spots in their acceleration.
He came out almost dangerously low, but managed to keep his recovery very low for about 5 strides, which is excellent for covering a lot of ground fast, but only at low speed. He then transitions smoothly to a higher recovery, and when it is complete at around stride 10, he experiences what seems to be a surge in acceleration relative to the other guys--which is really just him continuing to accelerate in that phase, and the other guys experiencing a hitch. At that point he stays tight in the shoulders, and keeps applying maximum force, rather than trying to go faster, he is still trying to go farther.
Only after about stride 15 does he enter a sort of 60m speed maintenance phase, where he is concerned with maintaining or developing speed rather than distance. After stride 15 he enters his final speed position, which is unfortunately not advantageous, as he chops his stride a bit--this is when Lyles and Blake gain on him.
But strides 10-15 were magnificent. If he could relax more later on in the race, he would be insanely fast.
Nice acceleration job by CC, and good to hang on for the win. People can talk ped's all they want, but his acceleration technique is visibly superior, right from the blocks (where he begins by applying force with both feet rather than just one), and it doesn't require ped's to execute properly.
His vmax and maintenance techniques are as lacking, as his acceleration technique is excellent.
It was a 60m race, after all. Nice.