! See that start by Bolt?!
! See that start by Bolt?!
What an embarrassment that Gatlin is allowed to compete. I am no fan of Bolt's, and he may be a drug cheat as well, but this Gatlin stuff is a scar on the face of our sport.
Agreed, Gatlin should not be allowed to run. In my eyes he's still on drugs.
don't hate on gatlin. i'm sure he gets his morning dumps tested.
I predicted Bolt would go down because he's out of shape, maybe a bit injured, and he only buckles down after defeats like this. But why is the time that slow? Wind? Cold? Gatlin ran 9.88 in Eugene, not known as better for sprints than Rome.
Eugene is a super fast track everyone runs faster than they do and sets PR in Eugene just look at NCAAs. As far as the times go these are actually very good times. Bolt is not out of shape he is just not on the juice yet and just ran a 9.95 CLEAN while gatlin is juiced to the ears and barely beat him in 9.94. This is what makes Bolt superior to all sprinters. Hes prepping for worlds and once he hits on the cycle expect .25/.3 tenth drop off of that time. Gatlin cant compete he is already maxing out his abilities therefore he might drop .1 at the most by worlds.
spdyhou wrote:
Bolt is not out of shape he is just not on the juice yet
Quite the contrary.
He's probably at a high level of juicing right now and has stiff muscles.
Once he backs of the juice and the hard training he will let it fly.
He got a pay check today.
qwerty12345 wrote:
Agreed, Gatlin should not be allowed to run. In my eyes he's still on drugs.
It's a good thing for Gatlin that he does not live in your eyes then.
spdyhou wrote:
Eugene is a super fast track everyone runs faster than they do and sets PR in Eugene just look at NCAAs.
geezus, seriously! Everything jjjj posts is complete garbage. How in the world can you be called out so many times and still take yourself seriously? Eugene is a really fast track.
Race recap is up here with video:
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2013/06/justin-gatlin-stuns-usain-bolt-in-rome/
spdyhou wrote:
Eugene is a super fast track everyone runs faster than they do and sets PR in Eugene just look at NCAAs. As far as the times go these are actually very good times. Bolt is not out of shape he is just not on the juice yet and just ran a 9.95 CLEAN while gatlin is juiced to the ears and barely beat him in 9.94. This is what makes Bolt superior to all sprinters. Hes prepping for worlds and once he hits on the cycle expect .25/.3 tenth drop off of that time. Gatlin cant compete he is already maxing out his abilities therefore he might drop .1 at the most by worlds.
Bolts just too big to get busted.
This was a nice preview of the battle for silver at World's. Tyson Gay will smoke both of them, but USA going 1-2 at World's would be at least some payback for the Jamaicans going 1-2 at the Olympics.
Wow. Bolt gained nothing the last 20m.
But gets swarmed by cameras.
And few followed Gatlin.
How many camera people were on the track?
Sprintgeezer wrote:
!See that start by Bolt?!
Old Geezer-
Other than the nonsense that everyone else is spewing, you and I seem to have noticed the most important thing to take away from this race.
I must say, that start reminds me of something really really deadly. The last time Bolt started like that he jogged 9.8x in the semi-finals and was disqualified in the finals. The time before that he destroyed world record. I am going to go out on the limb and say that Bolt will run a sub 9.63 in Moscow this year.
As much as you don’t like it “GEEZER” Moscow results will be a carbon copy of London 2012 but I’ll save my prediction for after Jamaica Trials. Blake’s injury seems more serious than I previously thought.
But accept it now rather than later Tyson Gay wont bet Gatlin at the World Champs.
Bolt made $20 million in endorsements last year and Gatlin got nothing more than free spikes from Nike. He's being punished.
This race can best be summed up as drugs vs. drugs.
Well in sense its not really being "busted" everyones on the same playing field. Racers sort of reminds me of Santa Monica TC a track camp with a bunch of fast sprinters on the juice destroying everyone and being protected. Yes Bolt will never get busted he is the Carl Lewis of the new era.
what irritated me is that Bolt shook Gatlins hands after the race. Why would you shake hands with someone who cheated to beat you?
Reminded me of the Tour de France, where no one had a problem with everyone doping.
Nutella1 wrote:
what irritated me is that Bolt shook Gatlins hands after the race. Why would you shake hands with someone who cheated to beat you?
Reminded me of the Tour de France, where no one had a problem with everyone doping.
Exactly. Gatlin was just stupid and got caught. Obviously Mills is smarter or learned.
All this hate for Gatlin from the people who adore Rupp, Farrah and Cain. Interesting...
Geezer and Lee - I watched that start by Bolt and was quite impressed! He reacted to the gun like a WR holder. All he has to do is finish the race. Perhaps he focused a lot on a good start leading up to Rome and will only look to fine tune his speed and endurance for Moscow.