Not trying to be a hater towards the event by any means it just seems weird he jumped really well a couple years ago, then dropped it. Makes me think he's not into it is all. He's still good enough to make some 4x400 teams if his 100/200 prowess doesn't return.
Oh well, at least he can say he has done some great times and distances should he never improve again.
Bit odd he did well not long ago in indoor season, but less so now. I would have thought outdoor season much more important.
He's obviously dealing with some sort of injury....he ran 20.12 indoors 2 months ago so this run isn't for a lack of ability in an event he's ran 9.98 in before. Too much is made about his race....that's totally irrelevant....speed is speed....you either have it or you don't, and you can't tell me a sub 10 runner lacks it.
We've been spoiled by the past outlier times posted by the Bolts, Blakes, Gays of the world....9.5's and 9.6's aren't normal times, they're exceptional, generational.....9.9/9.8 is the level of most "mortal" world class sprinters, with the occasional elites like Kerley, Bromell, Asafa, dipping below 9.8.....Asafa being the best (technical) sprinter ever, IMO, accounting for his multiple 9.7's.
Boling is potentially a 9.82-9.85/19.6 100M/200M runner under the right circumstances, with a great coach and team....times that can win World and Olympic medals, even golds! He's as good as anyone out there so to suggest he should scrap the 100 because of the colour of his skin or one bad race (possibly due to injury leading up) is totally absurd.
Yeah, sure—a potential 9.82-9.85 under conditions you describe, which currently show absolutely no sign of obtaining. But I totally agree, he has the basic potential, obviously. Going 9.9/10.0 as he does is nuts.
He’s dead in the water. If he is injured, it is all his/his coaching’s fault…and if not, then he he has bigger problems.
Nobody real is dissing him because he’s white. Nobody cares. We know what we see. You mention Powell, and I agree, he has been the best 100m sprinter of the modern era, maybe ever. Lausanne and Rieti are reference standards, along with his relay anchor. Boling is the anti-Powell. IMO every segment of his 100m race needs improvement, and he’s running out of time. He should already have made noticeable improvements. Maybe he would have had a dip in his times for a while, but that’s how it goes.
I’m not seeing it, which is sad. Everyone should reach their potential.
Last April he ran 9.98 (10.05 basic?) and 19.92 into a headwind (19.8x basic).
Whether or not he should move to the 400m, or 800m, or ultramarathons, etc., his massive decline in performance is puzzling and bears scrutiny without attempts to derail about what other events he should run.
Yes, he slowed down by the end of last season, but the fact that he's now running nearly a half-second slower over 200m OUTDOORS than he did indoors just a couple of months ago is crazy (20.12 indoors to 20.56 basic outdoors). The fact that he's gotten slower in every 100m he's run this season is totally nuts; here's the performances in chronological order:
10.24 (0.2) = 10.25
10.20 (3.0) = 10.34
10.26 (3.3) = 10.42
10.36 (1.2) = 10.42
Maybe CSG doesn't care about SEC, and has him peaking for regionals/nationals. But he'll need to drop 0.4ish seconds from where he is now to get back to where he was last April, and 0.3ish to get back to where he was at this time last year. Perhaps Coach is holding the cards realllllly close to her chest.
It's a weird situation. Now, Deno/Brutal will ignore everything substantive here and start talking about Dave Sime and Marcin Urbas and Grady "Chickenhawk" Chinook, and then other fonts will begin hypothesizing his 800m splits.
Can't beat that history a history that had me talking about how here will be another 200m cat which is where all white guys end up. Boling will be no exception. We have seen his best 100m days already, he won't be improving there. There is a chance he might run faster at 200m, if he plans on sprinting he had better.
But, he will never be among the very elite, that won't be happening he simply isn;t that talented. None of that 19.7ish stuff for him.
Can't beat that history a history that had me talking about how here will be another 200m cat which is where all white guys end up. Boling will be no exception. We have seen his best 100m days already, he won't be improving there. There is a chance he might run faster at 200m, if he plans on sprinting he had better.
But, he will never be among the very elite, that won't be happening he simply isn;t that talented. None of that 19.7ish stuff for him.
It does seem a bit concerning, I was wondering if Georgia was training heavily since Godwin and Sumner were running slower during the season but dropped considerable time for conferences but Boling actually got slower for conferences. He didn't run the 60m indoor so I had thought he was transitioning to a 2/4 guy until he started running the 100m outdoors. But looking at indoors, I wouldn't write him off just yet. The 200m looks to be wide open with no true favorite this year. Terrance Jones was the 100m favorite but he lost to his teammate so who knows at this point. Ryan Willie is the favorite for the 400 but William Jones is my dark horse now.
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