Usain Bolt Crushed By Yohan Blake - 9.75 to 9.86

dre217 wrote:

To get an idea of just how much of an aberration that race was, it's only his 2nd loss in 4 years.

You forget the defeat in Daegu (with Bolt VOLUNTARILY - I'm totally convinced - false starting to "avoid" a loss. Nevertheless this has been a defeat to Blake.)

You seem to know a lot about PEDs! What is Galen Rupp on?

Just compared the results to the European Championships final. Lemaitre would have been able to beat only one of these 8 Jamaicans. Crazy.

On the 100, I look to see you is just holding on and who is excelerating at the end. The first 10 meters can vary from race to race based on start.

Blake was just damn faster at the end. Impressive win.

Here's what I think Bolt should do.

Obviously, he's done. There's just no way he would let his compatriot beat him by .11 so close to the Olympic Games.

So I think Bolt should just suck up his pride and start running the 800 meters from this point forward.

Because after all, we all know that WE - the middle-distance and distance runners - are better than everyone else.

WE won't admit this outright - but deep down - WE ALL know it to be true.

WE know we're better than other people because WE don't feel the need to pack on muscles and look good.

All that matters is how fast we can run around an oval 2-25 times. THAT'S what matters. THAT's why we KNOW we're superior to others.

So please - Usain Bolt - it's time to join the mid-d and distance studs and help us build our sport.

Thank you.

misewell b wrote:

In fairness, Blake has probably timed his PED cycle a bit too soon. While Bolt was surprised he probably realizes his cycle is designed to peak near the Olympics. No worries so long as the supply doesn't go short in the next few months.

I predict a 9.42 showing in the Olympics, and instead of Bolt running sideways through the finish line, this time we'll see something truly spectacular....probably a round-off. Justin Gatlin will time his cycle for a 9.58 but you can find him out at the clubs watching some jello wrestling later that evening so all isn't lost.

Hahahaha nice - perhaps its conceivable that now Bolt makes 15 mill a year and has those great years of juiced-up running behind him he feels no need to take risks and is trying to compete clean

My gut reaction is that Bolt purposely started really slowly because it's the trials, not the Olympics. After what happened in Daegu, I'm guessing he was just trying to make the team. His start has been a problem his whole career, no point in risking anything to go for a win at the trials.

Bolt could have had a hangover for all we know. The guy sure does like to party.

With Bolt now looking human the Olympic final could go to any of 4-5 guys including Gay or Gatlin. If all show up and make it through the rounds showing good form. The Olympic 100m final could be epic.

Gay's just gay, B race dodger. And Gatlin has lost his credibility a long time back. Jamaicans may be juiced but the AmerIcans are proven, with the Jamaicans it's speculation.

+1.1

just going on times alone it looks like the jamaicans will clean up in the M 100M and possibly the 100M W. Coz Carmelita looks like a shadow of her old self and Fraser flying again.

I know this will fall on deaf ears but I feel the need to state a couple of facts. Number one the Islanders have been fast forever. Drugs have been around since the 1960s. Everyone in the world can get them. So what has led to the improvement? Much better coaching in the last decade and open access to legitimate training methods that once was kept under lock and key. As for the trials Eugene weather has been horrible all week. The men and woman of the USA will be ready if they stay healthy. Jamacian will be great and bring a ton of medals home. It's not all drugs. Another factor you may not be aware of is this Olympics will be held in a country with much better food and very crappy weather. Who do you think will benefit more from that? Look deeper and it will give you more truth besides drugs. I coach at a average size high school and we have had plenty of kids with bodies like Yohan. The difference is the mans world class cns and fiber type break down. Drugs don't give you that.

I failed to mention better food and worse weather then China for sprinters. If London and Eugene have similar climate I give the edge to the usa

RyRy wrote:

I failed to mention better food and worse weather then China for sprinters. If London and Eugene have similar climate I give the edge to the usa

And what about Yohan Blake's upper body? you think it's natural?

Bolt apparently if 8 kgs heavier than 2008. 17.6 pounds for the US crowd.

That is a problem. If it were going to work for him, it would have given him a better start, not a lesser start.

So I think he is hurt. He is hunched and struggling in that first 20.

Asafa just said that he's fine...it's only a sore muscle and he'll be rady for London.

If he got the same start in the final and runs to the tape (leaning at the line)...it's a real threat for medals.

He smoked Bolt and Blake in the first 60 meters.

Workout religiously for 5 years twice a day. It's not at all unrealistic. Again I have coached bigger kids at a average high school. Did those kids have great genes? Yes but not unnatural

For all you people saying Bolt is done you don't know a thing. He was coming up on Blake so fast, just a bad start, happens to everyone, and he was probably just trying not to false start. an no Blake's muscles aren't unnatural, sprinters don't use PED's for bigger looking muscles, they use it to recover faster.