I think knighton could run sub 20 this year, on a competitive race.
19 year old oregon freshman just ran 10.03 into a headwind
rojo wrote:
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https://www.letsrun.com/news/2021/05/holy-crap-17-year-olds-erriyon-knighton-9-99-and-jaylen-slade-10-03-20-20-just-ran-insanely-fast/
Wind?
2.7 on the 9.99 and 2.1 on the 10.0Xs
Knighton is racing Lyles and Bednarek this weekend
Member when Boling did this at 18 with a way bigger tailwind and got a freaking New York Times article written about it? I member.
My only hope is that at least one of these two pans out. It's always a crapshoot with sprinting but these kids are really fast and I think they could be the future of sprinting for America.
I really like Knighton, and especially Slade...
...but these windy Clermont times say pretty much nothing.
We will know more when they line up against some known quantities.
But for sure, the 200 this year is a real barn-burner of young guys. Lyles had better get his act together.
my two pennies wrote:
I think they could be the future of sprinting for America.
That would be great, because IMO the Coleman-Lyles era has been a clown show, really immature.
Sprintgeezer wrote:
my two pennies wrote:
I think they could be the future of sprinting for America.
That would be great, because IMO the Coleman-Lyles era has been a clown show, really immature.
Maybe Coleman, but I couldn't disagree more regarding Lyles. He's done nothing but win while being quite entertaining. He is great for the sport.
Noah Lyles has been great. Slade and Knighton are hugely promising. You never know but the odds are that at 17 they reach the top world level in the next few years.
macdaddy, the wrote:
Sprintgeezer wrote:
That would be great, because IMO the Coleman-Lyles era has been a clown show, really immature.
Maybe Coleman, but I couldn't disagree more regarding Lyles. He's done nothing but win while being quite entertaining. He is great for the sport.
I don’t find Lyles entertaining, I find him juvenile.
Of course he actually was a juvenile, but in that case all I want from him is to see him run.
Sprintgeezer wrote:
I don’t find Lyles entertaining, I find him juvenile.
Of course he actually was a juvenile, but in that case all I want from him is to see him run.
Okay boomer
Impressive runs from both teens.
They should work on their strength conditioning. Only then will they run sub 19.5 and sub 9.8
So lame. Nobody in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s (maybe Lewis a bit) acted juvenile—they wanted to be seen as, and treated as, men.
Then came the morons of the 90’s/00’s: Greene, Crawfish, etc who acted childishly and who properly earned respect from nobody.
There are still some men in the 100m, but they don’t count Lyles or Coleman among their ranks.
Why do some Americans feel the need to act like clowns?
Sprintgeezer wrote:
So lame. Nobody in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s (maybe Lewis a bit) acted juvenile—they wanted to be seen as, and treated as, men.
Then came the morons of the 90’s/00’s: Greene, Crawfish, etc who acted childishly and who properly earned respect from nobody.
There are still some men in the 100m, but they don’t count Lyles or Coleman among their ranks.
Why do some Americans feel the need to act like clowns?
We are no longer in the 50s or 60s ,and I am pretty certain every person of color athlete in the USA is thankful of that.
Bolt did his bolt thing; Blake did his beat mode thing. While I think both were silly, I say let them enjoy their moment.
Athletes never used to wrap themselves in a flag and make a circuit of the track in celebration of their win either; now they do, and while I find it cheesy, it has become the norm. Let them have their moment.
Greene was an idiot tattooing himself with GOAT. That was just stupid.
NYDCRunner1 wrote:
Sprintgeezer wrote:
So lame. Nobody in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s (maybe Lewis a bit) acted juvenile—they wanted to be seen as, and treated as, men.
Then came the morons of the 90’s/00’s: Greene, Crawfish, etc who acted childishly and who properly earned respect from nobody.
There are still some men in the 100m, but they don’t count Lyles or Coleman among their ranks.
Why do some Americans feel the need to act like clowns?
We are no longer in the 50s or 60s ,and I am pretty certain every person of color athlete in the USA is thankful of that.
Bolt did his bolt thing; Blake did his beat mode thing. While I think both were silly, I say let them enjoy their moment.
Athletes never used to wrap themselves in a flag and make a circuit of the track in celebration of their win either; now they do, and while I find it cheesy, it has become the norm. Let them have their moment.
Greene was an idiot tattooing himself with GOAT. That was just stupid.
Dolt and Flake just acted carefree, but otherwise acted as men. They did their work, kept their mouths shut, didn’t try to play any extracurricular games as far as track goes.
I have nothing against someone wrapping themselves in their national flag, if that is the banner under which they are competing.
“Athlete of color”, it’s a bad strategy to play the race card to try to characterize every element of an era by characterizing the era as a whole. Many times I would hear from sprinters (all black) that it would be great if there were no drugs, like “back when”.
Lyles and Coleman seemed to go too far, and to take stuff off the field of play. Yes I get that they don’t like each other. I will give them this, the whole thing seems to have cooled off as more attention has been concentrated on Coleman.
I hold out hope for all these younger guys—Knighton, Slade, Boling, Fahnbulleh, Laird, etc. They’ve been great so far, and are all looking to the same event, meaning they will interact. Good stuff.
rojo wrote:
Get the details here:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2021/05/holy-crap-17-year-olds-erriyon-knighton-9-99-and-jaylen-slade-10-03-20-20-just-ran-insanely-fast/
Slade looks like a grown man already. Dude's body looks like a 28 year old who's been competing at a high level for years.
I was benching 75 pounds at his age :(
Yeah, Slade is the one I think might hold the most promise overall.