Gout Gout 19.84 (+2.2)

Are you people just willfully stupid? Compare his mechanics to Lyles or Tebogo or Elaine Thompson-Herah's.

Bolt- Transcendent WR. No NCAA system.

Harry Jerome, Canada, University of Oregon. Olympic bronze and world record in 100m needs to be near the top of your list of foreign sprinters who ran in the NCAA system.

Wow, I somehow hadn't seen a video of him running yet. His legs are so "reactive" off the track, he's really fun to watch.

Gout easily if it's 500. 600 though? That I'd like to see. Give me Jakob at the line in 1:18

He will follow the traditional Australian route at global championships. Galant effort in heat to make semi, then run shunted to the back and well-beaten in the semi. He’s better than the usual Aussie battlers in the sprints and will be a narrow miss for finals and get lane one or nine at diamond leagues for a season or two. Then his Achilles will blow out and he’s done.

Negative

Hopefully he can make wc final this year

Actually Cathy Freeman does have some Chinese heritage, from way back. (Not uncommon). It came out in the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are. It doesn't change that she's about as Australian as it gets.

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You mean like Jess Hull at the Olympics last year? Or Peter Bol in Tokyo?

be careful bringing the king of kings into this discussion.

yes gout gout is very fast - and yes, he may approach the #2 all time marks (9.69 and 19.26).

but running below 9.6 and below 19.2 are achievements done only by the goat himself, and no one has come remotely close in well over a decade.

gout gout is a great talent but we've seen great talents plenty before. let's not put the pressure of becoming one of the greatest athletes in human history on this kid's shoulders. one step at a time here, let's see how he develops, see how he does in his first olympics, see if he's an erryon knighton type case who tops out in the mid 19s, or if he keeps getting better...

no

michael johnson had that crap, he did not listen

gout jumps off the page immediately, with his exaggerated sit down style, and front leg kick.

now i've studied strides, did dozens of exercises, had name coaches.

at the end of the day, i still don't know exactly what i'm talking about. in super precision.

i do see some very fast people with some bad posture, bad pronation, etc. that is for sure.

forward lean of staight up, i can't explain exactly why one might be better.

i do know that best athletes sit down, middle distance and sprinters.

and gout as sit down jumps way off the page.

and bekele, first time i saw him running cross country with ... not this long distance grind thing, an total animal with a sprinters stride in 12k in the mud, absolutely destroying every body.

bekele's style was a hypothetical thing prior, a secret thought, where that kind of sprinters form would work, as optimal, except with a bit of a problem, nobody did it. i guess yifter kind of did on the track...

anyway gout jumps way off the page immediately.

this style was described by gordon pirie, WR 5000m, he has good material on shoes, training, and while some of his training schedules can be farmed in part for content, at the end of the day, there are serious flaws....

with pirie's book, scholars must read percy cerutty's books, lydiard and peter coe as well.

from there i'm dated, the Morocco atlas mountain spain bunch, hard to tell if those guys contributed really beyond doing lydiard / coe protocol with mega drugs.

the americans today and norway, they are the top of the darwin evolution of methods.

the africans and marathon they are on drugs and contribute nothing to methodology

mention jaquim cruz 800 m coach had cross training one should pay much attention to.

If he's limited, it could be by his proportions hurting his starts. We'll see.