Silmon windy 9.92, Locke 9.97 in 2013 NCAA prelims

With a decent wind, Aaron Brown might be the first person from Canada to go sub 10...

Anyways finals will be fast, I can see at least 3 sub 10's

I hope they get a great legal tailwind, and that we see some smoking times. That might give these guys confidence going forward.

Sub-10 baby!

Brown--you mean "born in Canada"?

SkyArt wrote:

With a decent wind, Aaron Brown might be the first person from Canada to go sub 10...

Anyways finals will be fast, I can see at least 3 sub 10's

Are you serious??

Donavan Bailey: 9.84, olympic champion 1996, world record, former world champion.

Bruny Surin: 9.84: world champs silver and bronze

Oh my bad lol, I meant to say first Canadian in a long time

finally understand what SG meant

SkyArt wrote:

Oh my bad lol, I meant to say first Canadian in a long time

finally understand what SG meant

Ya, it definitely has been a long time since we had anything going. The olympic 4x100m was a good indication of things to come though!

It's been a long drought.

There was Macrozonaris. Now there is Brown.

p.s.--Bruny had the misfortune of running against one of the dirtiest douchebags of all time, Johnson 2.0

He got silver to Donovan in 1995, and silver to 2.0 in 1999.

Bruny is the rightful 1999 100m World Champion, in the scorching time of 9.84

Bruny and Ato were massively robbed. I feel for them both, just like Christine Arron.

The Oly 4x1 was crushing.

You are right, though, it was a good indication. Moscow will be interesting!

Smiths wrote:

Ya, it definitely has been a long time since we had anything going. The olympic 4x100m was a good indication of things to come though!

Depends on how you look at it, I don't think any of those guys in the 4x100 will even get the standard this year, just based on how the season is going. I do see lots of potential for Rio though, as there should be at least 2 sub 10 guys, and I know a few other guys who have some serious potential. but only time will tell.

Anyone else having issues with the results website? I keep getting only error messages from the site instead of live results.

by johnson 2.0 do you mean montgomery or greene?

Jamaicans in Canada.

I don't think I've ever clarified the Johnson Series.

Now that you ask the question, I think it would go something like this:

1.0 - the original, and still the best, BJ

1.5 - Mitchell

2.0 - Greene

2.5 - Montgomery

3.0 - Carter

3.5 - Mullings

4.0 - Blake

I think that's how it might go.

Guys who are relatively short but not super-short, and who run with a ton of power, especially muscling the arms and the upper body. All very muscular over the entire body. Also they have allegedly gone 9.78-9.80, except for Blake, who I think is the closest-yet approach to replicating the 1.0 model.

Montgomery is only a .5 increment because I don't know if he fits the profile very well. He was too thin.

The purity of the series is:

1.0 - original

2.0 - Greene

3.0 - Carter

4.0 - Blake

Building on the evolution of the series and the demonstrated success of the 4.0 model, work on the 5.0 has been progressing nicely. This time, though, it is being done by teams known for their copying ability, is not a homegrown solution, and does not work with the traditional sources of raw material.

Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you on this 6th day of June, 2013, the long-awaited and much-anticipated evolution of the Johnson Series of sprinters, the 5.0:

Yoshihide Kiryu

Let's get back to the NCAA, though.

What I wonder is if Locke was holding anything back during his prelim.

Silmon looked to have been going all-out, but Locke's start left something to be desired. I don't know if he was holding back just a bit, or if he just got a crap launch out of the blocks, but IMHO he left .03-.04 on the table right there.

The good news is that they are FINALLY learning how to operate their wind gauge in Eugene, and to not fake the timing. We will get to see if Locke can replicate or better yesterday's performance under different conditions.

I'm excited for Locke. If that was wind-legal, I think it was worth a 9.93 with just a better first 2 steps, and a 9.91/9.90 with a better first 10 steps. Granted, that's with an almost-max legal wind...but his relaxation looked good, even though he looked to be pushing a bit to stay out in front.

I know he can do a better start, he has shown that. No problem. I also like his relaxation over the last 35m, it looked very smooth.

That leaves transition, and absolute top speed, two things which in my opinion are related. You have to be able to set yourself up in transition for the "bloom" to absolute full-speed--if you don't, you will never achieve it. I don't think it's the case that you can just "put it off" until a bit later in the race, because these things go not by how many strides you have taken, but by how long it takes you to execute a particular move.

I think that if he perfects that "transition and bloom", he will be excellent--and by that, I mean a 9.8x possible maybe once or twice in his career, if all goes well.

Of course, if they screwed up the wind reading, then I would add a tenth to everything, and suggest that he could go 9.9x possibly once or twice in his career if all goes well.

I hope he wins the 100. I like the other guys too, but I have always been pulling for Locke. He will be in a dogfight, though. I think his prelim was an awakening for him, and I actually expect him to do relatively worse in the final than in the prelim. It would not surprise me if Brown beat him.

Go Locke!