Christian MF Coleman! 9.79! I never doubted you, bro. Never!

What really sucks is those who all they want to do is talk PEDs, Why?

Why not just enjoy the action, the athletes, without.....is he dirty? That really is pathetic.

Whatley wrote:

MurderDub wrote:

The biggest problem T&F has is its fans. Its fans are a bunch of doomsaying malcontents. Anything good that happens in the sport will immediately be met by accusations of doping. The athlete's specific profile does not matter. The song is always the same.

The sport is dying b/c its fans hate it and are killing it.

How is the sport dying?

It's never been anything close to football, we all get that.

Dying?

I'm exaggerating, Whatley. It's not dying, but it's also not growing and the sullenness of its fan base doesn't help. It's obvious as the day is long that 100% of the NFL, 90% of soccer and a good chunk of the NBA are doped to the gills. No one cares about that, but track athletes like Coleman are constantly berated and called dopers w/out having failed tests or even having any credible suspicion of doping linked to them. Idiots like sprintgeezer are a cancer to the sport. It's pathetic.

MurderDub wrote:

Whatley wrote:

How is the sport dying?

It's never been anything close to football, we all get that.

Dying?

I'm exaggerating, Whatley. It's not dying, but it's also not growing and the sullenness of its fan base doesn't help. It's obvious as the day is long that 100% of the NFL, 90% of soccer and a good chunk of the NBA are doped to the gills. No one cares about that, but track athletes like Coleman are constantly berated and called dopers w/out having failed tests or even having any credible suspicion of doping linked to them. Idiots like sprintgeezer are a cancer to the sport. It's pathetic.

sprintgeezer has been told by everyone to STFU about his obession with PEDs,the dummy just can't figure out people want to enjoy the sport without some loser ruining it with....is he dirty? Yep, pathetic.

There are still big HS, NCAA, World Class meets plenty of track for us geeks. The sport will be ok.

Wind -0.3 m/s wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_w9Sn7aa4

CHRISTIAN COLEMAN GOES CRAZY!! DIAMOND LEAGUE BRUSSELS 2018

Christian Coleman, the 60 meter indoor world record holder, just ended his season in style.

Coleman ran a 9.79 100 meter dash to win the final Diamond League Finale in Brussels, Belgium.

This time is the 7th fastest 100 meter time ever run. Not too shabby for Mr. Coleman

he is now equal 7th fastest runner, but now has the equal 14 th fastest time run

Fastest time run for three years, since gatlin in the semi and bolt in the world champ final in China

ex-runner wrote:

I don't know what this board talks about half the time.

No one does because half of the posts are deleted.

All i have done is to show the facts about every 9.80-and-better 100m athlete, and pointed out factual historical parallels between BJ and CC.

If those facts are inconvenient to you, so be it.

The person who knows the most about Coleman is Coleman himself.

For the time being, like I said, I don’t like this 9.79 at all, because of what such a time has meant historically.

Worse yet, historically, is the 9.77 basic. Coleman has inserted himself here:

Dolt

Blake

Gay

Powell

Coleman

Gatlin

No athlete has ever proven that a sub-9.8 basic can be achieved without that athlete testing positive for some banned substance at some point in his career, or being seriously implicated by other evidence, except Dolt—and for reasons such as major record, progression, Diack, no testing in Jamaica, head-and-shoulders #1, the suggestion that he could go 9.6 basic, when nobody else could go even 9.7 basic, is one that I do not find credible.

YMMV. Coleman has not yet tested positive, but many of those who did, did so later in their careers. For now, we form our own opinions, and watch, and wait.

". . . a Eugene time, a facility that many believe has produced questionable timing. . ." Are you implying that the times are fixed or manipulated? What evidence do you have? Are you just being ignorant or do you have facts/proof? Based on your other posts, it seems to be the former.

Whatley wrote:

So why do sprinters run all those 300's?

Why are the fastest 100m sprinters also the fastest 200m spinters?

Why in both the women/men the100m WR holder also hold the 200m WR?

This is my understanding:

1) They run 300s for fitness.

2) The 100m and 200m events are primarily based on top speed. The athletes with the best top speeds are most likely to win.

3) Same as 2.

Sprintgeezer is correct - the ability to hold speed in the last 50m happens at a different speed than the 200m, and will not improve very much from 200m training unless that 200m training also happens to increase top speed and/or have training that works to hold maxV.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

No athlete has ever proven that a sub-9.8 basic can be achieved without that athlete testing positive for some banned substance at some point in his career, or being seriously implicated by other evidence, except Dolt—and for reasons such as major record, progression, Diack, no testing in Jamaica, head-and-shoulders #1, the suggestion that he could go 9.6 basic, when nobody else could go even 9.7 basic, is one that I do not find credible.

YMMV. Coleman has not yet tested positive, but many of those who did, did so later in their careers. For now, we form our own opinions, and watch, and wait.

The fact that you think that this is logical (see the text in bold) is proof enough that you are the dolt involved in this conversation. Stop ridiculing the great Usain Bolt.

Is that enough to rank him one over baker this year?

Sprintgeezer wrote:

No athlete has ever proven that a sub-9.8 basic can be achieved without that athlete testing positive for some banned substance at some point in his career, or being seriously implicated by other evidence, except Dolt—and for reasons such as major record, progression, Diack, no testing in Jamaica, head-and-shoulders #1, the suggestion that he could go 9.6 basic, when nobody else could go even 9.7 basic, is one that I do not find credible.

YMMV. Coleman has not yet tested positive, but many of those who did, did so later in their careers. For now, we form our own opinions, and watch, and wait.

Tick! Tick! Tick! Three, two, one...(we all know it's a matter of time).

Subway Surfers wrote:

Sprintgeezer wrote:

No athlete has ever proven that a sub-9.8 basic can be achieved without that athlete testing positive for some banned substance at some point in his career, or being seriously implicated by other evidence, except Dolt—and for reasons such as major record, progression, Diack, no testing in Jamaica, head-and-shoulders #1, the suggestion that he could go 9.6 basic, when nobody else could go even 9.7 basic, is one that I do not find credible.

YMMV. Coleman has not yet tested positive, but many of those who did, did so later in their careers. For now, we form our own opinions, and watch, and wait.

Tick! Tick! Tick! Three, two, one...(we all know it's a matter of time).

You're usually right on these matters but wouldn't that be catastrophic for the U.S.? The young man would have to leave the country and take up residency in Bahrain or something.

That's all the high school sprinters talk about these days is Coleman (I co-coach my kid in HS). So many kids look up to him, idolize him, want to act like him, etc. It would sure let down millions of HS & college kids...let's hope he's the real deal. ?

Subway Surfers wrote:

Tick! Tick! Tick! Three, two, one...(we all know it's a matter of time).

If it's too good to be true...

This reminds me of the 2012 discussion of Gay here on letsrun...

Having said that, maybe Coleman and his team will continue to be careful. There's always hope.

As for Bolt. 9.57. Doped training partner. Huge performance jumps by several Jamaicans at that time. Basically no testing back then in Jamaica. Several positive tests for Clen in Beijing, " including a number from male Jamaican sprinters", hushed up by IOC/WADA. This is not a surprise.

casual obsever wrote:

Subway Surfers wrote:

Tick! Tick! Tick! Three, two, one...(we all know it's a matter of time).

If it's too good to be true...

This reminds me of the 2012 discussion of Gay here on letsrun...

Having said that, maybe Coleman and his team will continue to be careful. There's always hope.

As for Bolt. 9.57. Doped training partner. Huge performance jumps by several Jamaicans at that time. Basically no testing back then in Jamaica. Several positive tests for Clen in Beijing, " including a number from male Jamaican sprinters", hushed up by IOC/WADA. This is not a surprise.

Oh come on Casual, Bolt didn't hang around the locker room after training, when that all went down. He was back home reading scripture, poetry and doing sit-ups.

Does anybody ever wonder what would running be like if Bekele went into sprinting shorter distances instead of been the best distance runner ever. I wonder would he get the WRs or would he at least get 9.79

Are you sure? wrote:

Subway Surfers wrote:

Tick! Tick! Tick! Three, two, one...(we all know it's a matter of time).

You're usually right on these matters but wouldn't that be catastrophic for the U.S.? The young man would have to leave the country and take up residency in Bahrain or something.

That's all the high school sprinters talk about these days is Coleman (I co-coach my kid in HS). So many kids look up to him, idolize him, want to act like him, etc. It would sure let down millions of HS & college kids...let's hope he's the real deal. ?

I may be repeating myself, but back around 2003 (when I was young, ambitious and traveling around Europe) I was doing some reps in Finsbury Park (Tottenham) in London and the first few rounds of the Paris World Championships 100m were on a TV in the stand and all the young kids there watching were obsessed with Dwayne Chambers. The BALCO scandal erupted like only a few weeks later and those children there hero worshipping him no doubt learnt a painful life's lesson. I hope for your sakes he is the real deal or at least runs a really smooth operation. ?

Whatley wrote:

What really sucks is those who all they want to do is talk PEDs, Why?

Because seeing a cheater get busted and seeing the corruption in the sport get exposed every once in a while is simply much more entertaining these days than following any high level performance. If you don't believe me then look at the entertainment that the whole Lance Armstrong saga produced culminating with an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Armstrong became better known after all that than he was even after his 7 TdF wins.

Tell your son and his teammates/friends not to worry. Christian is clean and he appreciates their support. Working hard to make them and America proud! #DontBelieveItJustWatch