Diamong League Lausanne 100m Men Results

So Powell suffers a hamstring injury and then comes back and runs FASTER than he was before in a very short amount of time.. yeah ok. Clearly clean and no doping involved here.

Conditions were very good today.

Nah, we all know the Jamaican sprinters are clean. They just have a good coach.

Exactly. It's like Solinsky suffering a hamstring injury and coming back and almost winning the US championships. No way that makes sense. Solinsky is d*rty.

Its their training facilities, they are the best in the world.

Distance runners use fewer muscle fibers per muscle contraction, so a muscle injury isn't as awful (while its still bad) as it is to a sprinter.

Also, time off reduces muscle fiber recruitment activity necessary for fast sprinting. Time off for a distance runner has the same effect but the activity level is much lower, so the actual loss is significantly smaller.

Distance runners at the elite level also have great endurance levels, and a few weeks off won't diminish these that much, especially if they are keeping fit with some other medium (swimming).

This is why Distance runners generally have longer careers, than sprinters.

Asafa Powell probably had a small strain, recovered in a few days and in the performed very well in the good conditions today.

Still his performance after coming back from injury is much more impressive than Solinsky qualifying for worlds last week. Its also more impressive because Powell is a sprinter, and Solinsky is a distance runners.

Maybe Powell doesnt want to run in Rabat because he want to stay healthy for JA trials...but showed up only for financial reasons.

Probably he wasnt "injured" at all.

Its so easy to use the excuse as a sprinter, because you are literally always hurt, hoping your body holds together until the last step of last race of the year.

If you aren't always a little hurt in some way you aren't training hard enough.

This is what happens when you push the limit.

Lemaitre is the person to look for

A while ago someone on here pointed out how consistent Lemaitre is. This is being borne out.

not doping wrote:

So Powell suffers a hamstring injury and then comes back and runs FASTER than he was before in a very short amount of time.. yeah ok. Clearly clean and no doping involved here.

Did you have that same attitude in 09 when Tyson gay was "injured" and lowered his personal best TWICE?

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Two things Lemaitre has going for him:

1. Consistent

2. Terrible starts (something he can work on and shows he is not yet at his max potential).

3. Still only 20. A few more years to mature and get faster.

He could be the first white guy under 9.90.

Who knew Jeremy Wariner was such a role model to even a 100m white guy.

Powell lives in the shadow of Usain Bolt, and even Tyson Gay to some extent. But how many times has this dude run under 9.90? 9.80? One of these days I'd like to see Powell win a world title. He deserves to win a big one.

It is what it is. wrote:

Two things Lemaitre has going for him:

1. Consistent

2. Terrible starts (something he can work on and shows he is not yet at his max potential).

3. Still only 20. A few more years to mature and get faster.

He could be the first white guy under 9.90.

Who knew Jeremy Wariner was such a role model to even a 100m white guy.

He's actually 21. But other than that, everything you said is pretty much true. He has great reaction times though.

Your reaction time and start are different things.

Start usually refers to your drive phase from about 5 meters to 30 meters in a 100 meter race.

Lemaitre would improve his start if he had about 10-15 pounds more muscle (he's only 160 and 6'2.5"). Although more mass tends to cause your reaction time to slow down.

So you lose .01 second to gain .10 seconds.

Lemaitre can run 9.75 once he puts all the phases together and finishes developing.

Here are two ideas of the phases involved in a 100m sprint

Tom Tellez's 5 phases of a 100 meter sprint:

1.Reaction Time

2.Block Clearance

3.Speed of Efficient Acceleration

4.Maintenance of Maximum Velocity

5.Lessened Degree of Deceleration

John Smith HSI prefers 7 phases,very similar to Tellez:

1.Reaction Time

2.Block Clearance

3.Drive Phase

4.Transition

5.Maximum Velocity

6.Maintenance

7.Negative Acceleration

Note-neither one includes a finishing dip or lean phase.