Madrid World Challenge 2013 100m

Startlists:

http://www.rfea.es/competi/madridmeeting/participantes2013.pdf

Wahoo, 9.87 (+1.8) for Carter, with a crap .234 RT

If he had gotten even a .160 instead, he would have been at 9.80 (+1.8)

Incredible, absolutely incredible, I don't know what to say.

This guy is in the shape of his life.

His 9.78 in Rieti was bogus, I have never been able to bring myself to believe in it.

This is his new actual PR, although he could have gone this fast in Rieti had the timing been accurate.

What blows me away is the possibility of 9.80 with just a normal RT, or 9.79 with .150

For instance, in the recent 100m in Lausanne (Gay 9.79 Powell 9.88), Gay had .163, Powell .148

WTF Carter?!

Should Spanish timing be trusted? I don't know. Carter has looked good, and he could easily have run this time with this wind behind him, but the time with a good RT is still shocking to me.

All of a sudden the JAM relay is looking invincible, unless the US guys really show something solid.

There was a question as to whether Carter would lead off. I would say that question has now been answered.

Any leadoff runner for the US will have a hard time matching up with this. Rodgers figures to be the man, and he looks to be having the season of his life so far. Hopefully we will see some equivalent excellent result from him as Moscow nears, because he will really need to be on his game. Carter is very solid.

Something must be wrong with the Spanish timing and/or RT system:

Shalonda Solomon goes 11.04 (+1.5) with a .460 RT?

Umm, you could take .3 off that for a normal RT, in which case she would have gone 10.74 (+1.5)?

I don't think so.

Look at the RT's:

.460

.256

.184

.317

.522

.274

And no RT is given for the winner, Pierre, in 10.92

IDK, something's seems not right, maybe with both the winning times for men and women, 10.92 and 9.87

Spain.

Only time will tell.

So basically it goes like this (0.46):

The gun goes BANG!

You sit in the blocks doing nothing.

You go One-

You still haven't flinched.

-Thousand-

You just noticed the gun going off.

Is it even possible to be this slow? I don't think I could sit there motionless that long even if I tried to get out rrreeeaaalllyyy sssssllllllooooooowwwwwwwwwww

Is this being streamed anywhere? Don't see it advertised on Flotrack. Thx.

Yeah, something's screwed.

lol that it would have been a 10.68 with the best possible RT of .100

Hats off to Pierre, that is nails.

Wow d, things are really heating up.

Can't wait to see vids of these races.

See Dasaolu and Vicaut, and how they ran? HOW they ran, d. Incredible. Who does Dasaolu remind me of?

We have just witnessed the emergence of totally new sprint threats.

Don't know if it was streamed, the only thing left is the men's 3000m which is in progress, or maybe finished by now.

UH, Tyson, while you were sleeping.....

I think it comes to peaking when it counts (everybody except Bolt, or maybe he's just pulling everybody's leg again).

What I'm nervous about is:

Kimberlyn Duncan

Isiah Young

English Gardner

These are people that during the NCAA season ran among the fastest times in the world (Nellum, too, but he HAS folded his tent for the season--how many meets in a row can you expect to do the 400/200 double and survive to race again?). In initial races they all seem to be dead down the stretch. Could be jetlag, but Duncan has collapsed this way twice now.

The folks at T&FN had these people written in as medal prospects for Moscow, and it's not looking too good. The good old NCAA overracing system strikes again?

I'm also noticing that Wariner is not appearing anywhere in Europe, which makes me suspect that he was running injured at nationals (turf toe coming back?). It could simply be that he can't survive the training uninjured at his advanced age.

@Sprintgeezer, I agree that this was an incredible race and it's a shame he's not on the Jamaican team...BUT his PR is 9.78 and there was nothing wrong with that run. Deal with it.

Well, here's the vid, and it did look very Carter-esque, with that signature form that doesn't look very fast, but is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5sYylo-g0

One thing for sure, those reported RT's are wrong.

Which suggests that the race timing could have been wrong, too.

Great race by Carter, but the time is still suspect for me.

With Carter now in the Open 100m, he has to be considered a medal favorite, most especially if this 9.87 is legit.

Carter 9.87 is as legit as Mvumvure 9.98

Regardless of whether the 9.87 is legit, that race looked really good.

We know Carter is, say, mid-9.9x this year, and we know how his race looks.

This race looked the same in general, only a fair bit better in the second half, IMO.

Look for him to do some damage in upcoming meets, if he runs hard--he looks great.

He may well be even with Gatlin at this point. We will see today in Monaco what kind of shape Gatlin is in, but Carter looked really, REALLY good in Madrid, and has already more or less backed up that time already this year, unlike Mvumvure.