Bolt 9.58!!!!

I'd love to believe a 9.58 is clean...

but even I'm in doubt.

OK dipshit. Read the results again. They had a tailwind!

100 Metres - M Final

16 August 2009 - 21:35Wind: 0.9 m/s Position Lane Bib Athlete Country Mark React

1 4 656 Usain Bolt JAM 9.58 (WR) 0.146

2 5 1183 Tyson Gay USA 9.71 (NR) 0.144

3 6 665 Asafa Powell JAM 9.84 (SB) 0.134

4 3 111 Daniel Bailey ANT 9.93 0.129

5 8 1116 Richard Thompson TRI 9.93 (SB) 0.119

6 1 492 Dwain Chambers GBR 10.00 (SB) 0.123

7 2 1110 Marc Burns TRI 10.00 (SB) 0.165

8 7 1215 Darvis Patton USA 10.34 0.149

you see what i put in bold up there?

0.9 m/s. That is a tail wind

check iaaf if you like

http://berlin.iaaf.org/results/racedate=08-16-2009/sex=M/discCode=100/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#detM_100_hash_f

it was his mother, not grandmother! It was unreal=...?

Vi sitter wrote:

9.58 w/ -.8 wind & reaction of .146

with +2.0 wind

~9.45

w/ .100 reaction

~9.41

O_O

This is absurd. I never thought he would sniff 9.55 but the wind does not lie...

It was a tailwind.

so where was nobody?

This makes me sick. You believers are out of your minds. Twenty years ago the record was 9.92, and three years ago it was 9.77. Bolt may be naturally the greatest sprinter ever to live, but there's no way a single human can be THAT far ahead of every other human ever to live. The conditions weren't even that great and the track is said to be not a fast one.

I'm sorry, Bolt has done great things for this sport, and he's innocent until proven guilty, but I just don't think it's possible.

It'll be interesting to see what he runs in the 200m. 18.9?

Hahaha. Fine. With a fast track, 9.2x.

Joking.

for a while this looked like the smart thread

He's just a freak - in a good way.

The top three have the 15 fastest times ever.

1 9.58 +0.9 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Berlin 16.08.2009

2 9.69 ±0.0 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Beijing 16.08.2008

3 9.71 +0.9 Tyson Gay USA 09.09.82 2 Berlin 16.08.2009

4 9.72 +1.7 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1rA New York City 31.05.2008

4 9.72 +0.2 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1rA Lausanne 02.09.2008

6 9.74 +1.7 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1h2 Rieti 09.09.2007

7 9.76 +1.8 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Kingston 03.05.2008

8 9.77 +1.6 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1 Athínai 14.06.2005

8 9.77 +1.5 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1 Gateshead 11.06.2006

8 9.77 +1.0 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1rA Zürich 18.08.2006

8 9.77 +1.6 Tyson Gay USA 09.09.82 1q1 Eugene 28.06.2008

8 9.77 -1.3 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Bruxelles 05.09.2008

8 9.77 +0.9 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1h1 Rieti 07.09.2008

8 9.77 +0.4 Tyson Gay USA 09.09.82 1 Roma 10.07.2009

15 9.78 ±0.0 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1 Rieti

Who cares, just a bunch of juiced up drug cheats

I stand corrected on the wind, that makes things a little more reasonable...

changes estimates to

w/ +2.0 wind

~ 9.53

w/ .100 reaction

9.49

much more reasonable, as reasonable as sub-9.6 is like to get..

I'm not one to go for doping allegations, but 9.58 is a bit much..

Thanks!

Bolt FTW at 100/200/400 in 2012!

I'm sorry, this may have been discussed, but where was Bolt 2 years ago? He was still the same height, probably a little lighter, but he has now emerged from a mediocre 100m guy to world record holder? Barely under 10, if even, to 9.58. Anyone who thinks he is clean is a moron.

the biggest, blackest cat won - big shock-

Guppy wrote:

This makes me sick. You believers are out of your minds. Twenty years ago the record was 9.92, and three years ago it was 9.77. Bolt may be naturally the greatest sprinter ever to live, but there's no way a single human can be THAT far ahead of every other human ever to live. The conditions weren't even that great and the track is said to be not a fast one.

I'm sorry, Bolt has done great things for this sport, and he's innocent until proven guilty, but I just don't think it's possible.

It'll be interesting to see what he runs in the 200m. 18.9?

Watching times and records in track is starting to get that swim meet feel. It used to be difficult to break T&F records.

On another note, is anyone else starting to tire of seeing dudes in the women's speed events?

Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:

The top three have the 15 fastest times ever.

1 9.58 +0.9 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Berlin 16.08.2009

2 9.69 ±0.0 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Beijing 16.08.2008

3 9.71 +0.9 Tyson Gay USA 09.09.82 2 Berlin 16.08.2009

4 9.72 +1.7 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1rA New York City 31.05.2008

4 9.72 +0.2 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1rA Lausanne 02.09.2008

6 9.74 +1.7 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1h2 Rieti 09.09.2007

7 9.76 +1.8 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Kingston 03.05.2008

8 9.77 +1.6 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1 Athínai 14.06.2005

8 9.77 +1.5 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1 Gateshead 11.06.2006

8 9.77 +1.0 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1rA Zürich 18.08.2006

8 9.77 +1.6 Tyson Gay USA 09.09.82 1q1 Eugene 28.06.2008

8 9.77 -1.3 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Bruxelles 05.09.2008

8 9.77 +0.9 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1h1 Rieti 07.09.2008

8 9.77 +0.4 Tyson Gay USA 09.09.82 1 Roma 10.07.2009

15 9.78 ±0.0 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1 Rieti

All recorded in the past 4 years!

But seriously, how fast can he run? He's what, 23? He dropped a tenth of a second off the WR in 1 year. Where's the ceiling?

and thanks to LTM it's now back on track