Indoor 60's in March really have little to do with 100m in the late summer.
Just like I thought his 100m Gold in Tokyo would have little do do with an indoor 60m late in the Winter.
Couple that with his relatively poor starts, but world-class late-stage acceleration…this shows he’s set up to repeat.
absolutely agree. It wasn't a monster 60 but hes not a monster 60 guy. His acceleration and relaxation is great, and he decelerates less than any competitve 100 guys I can think of right now. I really want to see him try the 200. I think he could have a lot of sucsess with his relaxed style
Powell would have gone 6.37 had he cared. Su also would go 6.3x if he cared. So would have Dolt and Flake, and Gatlin at his best...BUT Jacobs really has a solid race. Strong, disciplined, excellent form, doesn’t break, rises to finals unlike Powell. This was an incredibly smooth 6.41, repeatable, not a one-off.
lol Coleman can’t even hold on for 60m at the moment, never mind 100m. We will see what outdoors brings.
Although it was a tie, at the moment Jacobs is making Coleman look like a fool. The system will support Jacobs, and scrutinize Coleman. Coleman will either continue to lose to Jacobs, get injured, or get busted.
Coleman’s race sucks and he knows it. Watch for him to do something even stupider than he did before—which is sad, because Jacobs isn’t worthy of anybody’s favor, and shouldn’t be treated any differently than Coleman.
I would like to see Coleman off the relay:
Bracy/Williams-Lyles-Bednarek-Baker, or whatever. Hopefully the USA won’t need him.
This is absolutely correct, and I'm glad someone finally said it. Jacobs start is great and his top speed mechanics are excellent. When you watch the race in slow motion you see Jacobs and Coleman were virtually neck and neck out of the blocks and for the first 10 meters then Jacobs came out of his drive phase earlier than Coleman and Coleman gained maybe .1-.2 meters on him around the 20-30 meter mark, but Jacobs' higher top end speed and mechanics pulled Coleman back in by the finish. The way Jacobs maintains his form and stays relaxed through the finish while under pressure is pretty amazing, it's how he beat Kerley last summer and now he beat Coleman in the 60 the same way. Kerley was a monster last summer, he legitimately had Jacobs beat until about the 80m meter mark in the Olympic final and then started to come apart just a little bit and Jacobs kept his cool all the way through the line. Frankly Coleman's last 10 meters looked terrible, bow legged and duck footed when he pressed for the finish line, Jacobs is going to destroy him over 100m, you can really see it in the head on slow motion view:
The NY Times did a really good analysis of the men's 100m final in Tokyo last summer. Even at the start the only one that got the better of Jacobs at any point in that race was Kerley, even with Jacobs reaction time being the second slowest in the race. Jacobs had the highest top speed in that race, by a decent amount too, the only ones even close were de Grasse and Simbine. If de Grasse could get his start worked out he could be a real threat, but really it looks like Jacobs could be the top dog in 100m for a while. Kerley is a beast but Jacobs is over a half a mile an hour faster than him at the top end, and Coleman is going to have the same problem. With this 60m performance and with Jacobs top end speed he could be running mid to low 9.7s this summer:
By Joe Ward, Lazaro Gamio, Larry Buchanan, Jeremy White, Bedel Saget, Weiyi Cai, Jon Huang, Emily Rhyne, Tessa Barton, Alexandre Devaux, Or Fleisher, Niko Koppel, Mark McKeague and Peter Whid
Lamont Marcell Jacobs achieved a top speed of 26.76 miles per hour to finish the 100-meter race in 9.80 seconds, 0.22 seconds off Usain Bolt’s world record set in 2009.
Jacobs vanished after the Tokyo Olympics like a thief at midnight would after a successfull bank run. His Olympic gold could have translated into millions of dollars had he appeared in the Zurich Wetklasse and other high profile meets . Showing the extraordinary courage of a rain-drenched mouse, he found refuge possibly under a Rome basement bed , afraid of showing up outdoors and testing positive, while the athletes he vanquished in Tokyo appeared and settled for the spoils. Marcel Jacobs and courage and honesty do not belong in the same sentence
Dino, the point is that it is relative to the athlete. Jacobs has outstanding speed endurance in the 100m. Note that point I made about his maintaining his acceleration all the way to 83m, best/latest in the field, at the Olympics. So, if you take the same athlete who can hold his speed remarkably well, and you add, after a breakthrough year, that he now is starting faster and faster by that much at 60m, which is a lot at this level, you have a guy who is going to run 9.75-76 this year.
If you have some need to think 60's in March have something to do with 100m in late summer go for that fantasy. Seen a little track my man, but you can buy into that silliness if ya want I won't be, simply know better.
Jacobs vanished after the Tokyo Olympics like a thief at midnight would after a successfull bank run. His Olympic gold could have translated into millions of dollars had he appeared in the Zurich Wetklasse and other high profile meets . Showing the extraordinary courage of a rain-drenched mouse, he found refuge possibly under a Rome basement bed , afraid of showing up outdoors and testing positive, while the athletes he vanquished in Tokyo appeared and settled for the spoils. Marcel Jacobs and courage and honesty do not belong in the same sentence
What a load of total BS, come on guy.
Well he gets total props and respect from me and we can toss courage/honesty in there there is no reason not to.
This PED thing for those who have never been busted totally sucks, and is also lame.
Worth noting that he'll have got $400k from Italy - they give financial rewards for gold medals. He got a tonne of attention after the Olympics and likely earned as much partying and doing press as he would have got on the circuit. He was busy on the cirucit, ran 2 major championships last year... at that point he had nothing to prove, a lot of fatigue and money in the bank. Is it that surprising he took a few weeks off?!
I'm curious if people think the fact that Jacobs wears the Nike Maxfly (a "super spike") and Coleman wears the Nike Superfly elite (not a "super spike")?
