mr. nice guy wrote:
you're not funny so try harder, trollito. also try harder to post at least 1 relevant fact instead of goofing, whining and shyttalking cause so far so easy for me
"If you're coming out of woodwork you must be a worm or insect"
-you
Thats.....that's so far so east for you, huh?
Ok....fine.
Powell's Lusanne 9.72 converts to 9.74 basic.
Gay's Berlin 9.71 converts to 9.75 basic.
Negligible difference. What, you want to call this a clear Powell "win"? Ok, sure. Then consider the following:
In Gay's Berlin 9.71 (taking second to Bolt's 9.58, of course), Powell was .13 behind and finished in 9.84. That converts to a a 9.88, by the way.
Gays next best wind conversion 100m result is a 9.77 with a +0.4 wind reading where he took first place on 7/10/2009. It converts to a 9.79. Guess who he beat in that race? Powell, who finished 2nd in 9.88.
Powell's next best wind conversion is a 9.83 in Bruxelles that was run into a -1.3 wind which DOES convert to a 9.75. You can use that as a rebuttal, if you like. The problem is, outside of this Bruxelles wind anomaly (it's Bolt's only sub 9.7 wind conversion outside of a championship final, as his 9.77 win converts to 9.69 basic), Powell and Gay are damn near identical in wind conversions. For example, Powell went 9.78 in Reiti in still conditions once, but Gay went 9.79 with a +0.1, as well. Based on the altitudes, those are both 9.79 basic conversions.
The difference of course being, when they actually raced...Gay won. In one offs, in champ finals....Gay BEAT Powell. To me, that makes his .01 9.74 top coversion edge and his 9.75 second conversion moot.
If you're going to take Powells 9.72 and propose a +2.0 equivalent of 9.64, then I theorize that if Gay was in that race he would have run at least 9.70 and thus been capable of a 9.62 in a +2.0. Why do I get to say that?
Cause in races where Powell was against him, Gay beat him. Osaka 2007. Berlin 2009. Stockholm 2009. Roma 2010. London 2012. That's why. All I can find in Powell's favor is him beating Gay once in Bruxelles in 2009. As far as I can tell, that's a 1-5 record against Gay; maybe not a complete record, but it's not like there are four or five races out there in there either where he beat gay that I dont know about.
And we already know Gay was capable of mid 9.7 basic results (Berlin 2009), AND running low 9.7x and breaking 9.7 (Shanghai 2009) regardless of wind benefits (Eugene 2008) is on the record. You put Gay in a Powell Reiti or that Lusanne race where Powell goes 9.72, and you hVe no reason to assume Gay wouldn't go 9.70/9.65 other than it hurts your weird fandom and doesn't fit your cherry picking facts repertoire.