Name three non-Jamaican sprinters that you are positive are on currently competing while on steroids. This should should be easy since you think the sport is still very dirty outside Jamaica.
I find his performance and that Clayton teenager running 10.84 outliers. She went from running 11s to 10.8 in a couple of months and did not have the consistent PBs of sub 11s and fast times to support such a drop. Something weird is going on here.
I find his performance and that Clayton teenager running 10.84 outliers. She went from running 11s to 10.8 in a couple of months and did not have the consistent PBs of sub 11s and fast times to support such a drop. Something weird is going on here.
The guy has had shin problems last 3 years and couldn't race.
nothing about his progression suggests he is legit. nobody goes from 10.21 to 9.85 in one year without some spiked up burrito/yams/toothpaste/reindeer milk/etc, must be the coaching, wink wink
Intentional misrepresentation of the facts. His progression last year from an injury riddled 2022 (official best of 10.21) to open up in 10.0 then to 9.9s and closing out his season in 9.8s.
The way you presented his progression is as if there weren't times in between those times.
I presented his progression the way it’s presented in his World Athletics profile, which is the same way it’s presented for all athletes: by annual best time. That is the way to see how an athlete has improved from year to year.
Your defensive response to this factual information shows that you realize his crazy progression from an ordinary prep running 10.5 at 18 years of age to 9.7 and fastest in the world just a few years later is highly suspicious.
Highly suspicious is an understatement. Borderline unbelievable. This isn’t some Usain Bolt that set youth records. No no, something is amiss here. Just freakin look at him. I don’t think Noah beats him but I hope he does.
I find his performance and that Clayton teenager running 10.84 outliers. She went from running 11s to 10.8 in a couple of months and did not have the consistent PBs of sub 11s and fast times to support such a drop. Something weird is going on here.
Have you followed champs and the Jamaican junior scene over the last few years? The Clayton twins are enormous talents and as with all things the times never tell the whole story, especially in Jamaica with their awful facilities.
so humans can run 10.1-2 on cinder in heavy shoes, poor diets, no resistance training, working full time jobs, before steroids were even known 70 years ago, and running just 0.4s faster now means they must all be on juice?. ok..
I presented his progression the way it’s presented in his World Athletics profile, which is the same way it’s presented for all athletes: by annual best time. That is the way to see how an athlete has improved from year to year.
Your defensive response to this factual information shows that you realize his crazy progression from an ordinary prep running 10.5 at 18 years of age to 9.7 and fastest in the world just a few years later is highly suspicious.
Highly suspicious is an understatement. Borderline unbelievable. This isn’t some Usain Bolt that set youth records. No no, something is amiss here. Just freakin look at him. I don’t think Noah beats him but I hope he does.
Noah doesnt beat someone whos going to run 9.75 or less. (assuming +1 wind). I'd expect Kerley to beat Noah in Paris FWIW.
Jamaicans are a different breed too so dont get too suspicious. For other nationalities perhaps the suspicion can be there but jamaicans tend to be pretty relaxed about things until they find fire in the belly. Injuries of course also play a part.
you just need to trust the testing. its more comprehensive than ever and an athlete stands to lose literally everything these days. its a massive risk to cheat now.
I said on this board years ago that the next WR guy would be a bigger version of BJ.
Here we might have it, although his race is different and he is not so specifically adapted.
Yet. He is only 22, no?
Bolt was 22 when he ran 9.58
My point being that he still has YEARS to make more sprint-specific adaptations.
I think he will end up the 2nd-fastest of all time, if he doesn’t get injured or busted. Although he just ran 9.77 letting up, and is juiced to the gills, that 9.58 (actually 9.572, I think) is WAY, WAY down there. I would be surprised if he got it.
BUT Bolt got there, and Blake almost got there. Powell ran an immaculate, relaxed, and windless 9.72, imo the most perfect 100m race of the top-10; with a little bit of wind, that is mid/high-9.6x
Thompson can do it. He even has an actual shot at the WR.
