El Keniano wrote:
You don't know anything about this guy yet you're so quick to call him dirty. Seriously, what's the clean ceiling to you?
This is what I know about the guy
1. He was an average long jumper that never legally even broke 8 meters who then decided that the 100m was a much easier event to be good so became a 100m runner.
2. After redirecting this focus to the "much easier" 100m discipline he ran these seasonal best performances - 2018 10.08 (+0.7), 2019 10.03 (+1.7) and 2020 10.10 (+1.6). The majority of his performances were (expectedly when you look at these wind readings) were in the 10.1X-10.3X range.
3. In 2021 at the age of 26 despite 3 seasons of middling 100m running by global standards he turns up in Tokyo and runs 9.94, 9.84, 9.80 to win the Olympic 100m title. 9.80 with a +0.1 wind.
Let's objectively look at how absurd that is. His PR was 10.03 at +1.7 which wind corrected is 10.11. His Tokyo time was 9.80 +0.1 which wind corrected remains 9.80.
He sliced THREE TENTHS of a second off his PR to win Tokyo. Do you understand the gravity and absurdity of that? And this is not the situation/circumstance of a talented junior progressing at a fast rate early in their career - he was plateaued at the 10.1 second level - even after giving up long jumping to focus on the 100m. That's not an arbitrary take - the fastest he could run for three straight years (he ran 43 100m races in those 3 years so it's a MASSIVE sample size), was no better than 10.11 wind corrected (twice for his best times from 2018 and 2019).
So to answer your question - what is the "clean ceiling"? Not what I just described above. His clean ceiling was 10.1 seconds and he has an Olympic gold that he needed 9.80 seconds to win. What are we even discussing here?