I hope him and Knighton becomes a rivalry the sprints have been a bit boring since the days of Gatlin and Bolt clashing. We've really been missing a Bolt v Blake.
All the better that it's two Americans at the top too.
I hope him and Knighton becomes a rivalry the sprints have been a bit boring since the days of Gatlin and Bolt clashing. We've really been missing a Bolt v Blake.
All the better that it's two Americans at the top too.
Case in point - the 30% of this board that isn't politics is 50% shouting about Jakob.
Dude really saw Knighton run 19.49 and said "nah bro you ain't winning sh!t" lmao
I know his statement should with a grain of salt but at face value he basically said "Olympic glory wasn't enough to push me to my absolute best. But a teenage punk running faster than me..." which is actually hilarious.
He ran 19.6 I'm the semis and looked like he still had a whole 'nother gear to shift too on the straight. It turned out - yes, yes he did.
Kerley could be a monster in this event if it wasn't for his ankle problems
Even on the straights it visibly affects him. For example during the 100m in the drive phase he randomly just lost a step to the field, which nearly lost him the race.
It's a pretty big what if what he could've been without that problem.
Having had my track and swimming days derailed by a bone spur in my left ankle that got really bad during my senior year I can relate.
Irrelevant thought. World record times (swimming and running) are coming down much more slowly. Are we nearing
(Women's 800. 1983).
Oh boy this can of worms:
First off swimming is a bad comparison to running in this regard. The sport has been heavily impacted by revolutions in technique: e.g underwater dolphin kicks, breaststroke and butterfly looking radically different than they did 40 years ago, straight arm freestyle, Paltreineri showing that there's more room for experimentation that one may think, et cetera, and technology: e.g Google, lane lines, pools, especially swimsuits, etc.
With swimming being somewhat unnatural for humans and water providing much more drag than the air there's just been far more room for progress in the sport.
Where as with running technological improvements have had far less of an overall impact, especially with doping having been virtually unchecked for large swaths of the sports history.
However there's an interesting discussion about parallels between the new shoes for distance running and the supersuits in swimming from 2008-2009. The men and women's 5k, 10k, half and marathon records have all been obliterated recently and tines in general have seen a huge drop compared to the previous decade. Likewise the oldest records in swimming are all leftover times from the supersuit era, and it's got so bad that fans of the sport keep a separate list of "textile world records" (though today there's a good chunk more textile records than there are supersuit records)
The world is going to be so different in 2050 is hard to fathom.
All my homies hate the infinite growth ponzi scheme and all of my homies can see that it's foundation cracked in 2008, split in 2020, and it's now crumbling.
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My Original Research not stolen why would you even think that?
Not so sure if those Blake (Blake became possessed by a Cheetah that race, .08 is a huge difference in a sprint but Lyles didn't look to be quite that fast), Dix, or Knighton splits are legit but still.
I'd be curious to see wind readings as well bolt ran that 9.27 into a slight headwind for example.
Bolt being able to run sub ten on a curve though 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Dude really saw Knighton run 19.49 and said "nah bro you ain't winning sh!t" lmao
I know his statement should with a grain of salt but at face value he basically said "Olympic glory wasn't enough to push me to my absolute best. But a teenage punk running faster than me..." which is actually hilarious.
Dude, there were no fans at the Olympics. Running a relatively silent Olympic final in an 80,000 seat stadium with maybe 200-300 people total in it clearly doesn't quite get Noah Lyles going. I get it.
The world is going to be so different in 2050 is hard to fathom.
All my homies hate the infinite growth ponzi scheme and all of my homies can see that it's foundation cracked in 2008, split in 2020, and it's now crumbling.