Return of British Sprinintg

Like you say there's depth, none of them are going to win a major championship, but, if they stop punching each other, that's a strong relay team!

Looking at this picture, I can't help but think that if Harry A-A cut a few pounds he'd be sub 10 already.

https://twitter.com/HarryAA100m/status/475720291403182080/photo/1

chest day wrote:

Looking at this picture, I can't help but think that if Harry A-A cut a few pounds he'd be sub 10 already.

https://twitter.com/HarryAA100m/status/475720291403182080/photo/1

holy f*ck he's jacked

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World Champs 2011 relay- he was too big for his lane and floored Walter Dix!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSI1eR3jTvs

British sprinting will 'return' if they find someone who's running 9.8 on a regular basis. So far this season there's 1 sub 10, with the rest running times Kim Collins is also running.

Furthermore; I suspect something totally off with the Hengelo timing/wind registration. That track is the slowest I ever ran on (developed with Jos Hermens to facilitate numorous Haile/ Kenenisa record attempts in the 5 and 10).

I say; let that kid repeat it...and we'll talk some more. One swallow doesn't make summer. I still think Dwain will win UK champs. The rest will, as always, succomb to pressure.

Kabayo wrote:

British sprinting will 'return' if they find someone who's running 9.8 on a regular basis. So far this season there's 1 sub 10, with the rest running times Kim Collins is also running.

Furthermore; I suspect something totally off with the Hengelo timing/wind registration. That track is the slowest I ever ran on (developed with Jos Hermens to facilitate numorous Haile/ Kenenisa record attempts in the 5 and 10).

I say; let that kid repeat it...and we'll talk some more. One swallow doesn't make summer. I still think Dwain will win UK champs. The rest will, as always, succomb to pressure.

I agree Ujah's time will remain slightly suspect until he repeats it. Like you say, only when we have regular when we hve guys capable of running consistent 9.8's but I think Gemili will be there within the next few years, and maybe Dasaolu too.

I also didn't mention the other talented 'brit' Delano Williams who is looking like a good prospect over 200m.

A Brit sprinter running regular 9.8's? He would have to live and train somewhere warm.

Rana Reider

British Summer Time wrote:

A Brit sprinter running regular 9.8's? He would have to live and train somewhere warm.

What are you saying? Southern England can get well into the 50s F in Summer...

Once you've had a few injuries, the cold weather , plus the general bad weather in the winter in the British Isles does hold an athlete back to an extent. It takes so much time just to warm up those tired joints and muscles. You lose the element of running at your purest speed because of the cold and the bloody howling gales thrusting your efforts back in your face, and that's just the summer!!!!!

Runners from the British Isles are really hard though.

lahdidee wrote:

[quote]British Summer Time wrote:

What are you saying? Southern England can get well into the 50s F in Summer...

They don't train in the south. They train in Loughborough, where the average temperature in July is a sweltering 50 to 70 degrees.

Yes, hard but slow.

Those are considered high school times by US standards and the USbisnt even that strong anymore.

Most of them spent the end of winter/start of summer training in Florida.

I was reading Kilty's life story, very interesting. Not sure about his coach though? Linford has the experience and I don't doubt he was the best sprinter in the world in 92 to 93, but he is tainted by that British 90's 'supplements' fiasco, where they all claimed that they had no idea that the well known 'supplement' they were taking (which cannot be named for legal reasons) would convert into nandrolone inside their body.

I have no idea what Linford did or din't do, but he is persona non grata with some of the establishment.

British Summer Time wrote:

I was reading Kilty's life story, very interesting. Not sure about his coach though? Linford has the experience and I don't doubt he was the best sprinter in the world in 92 to 93, but he is tainted by that British 90's 'supplements' fiasco, where they all claimed that they had no idea that the well known 'supplement' they were taking (which cannot be named for legal reasons) would convert into nandrolone inside their body.

I have no idea what Linford did or din't do, but he is persona non grata with some of the establishment.

Linford is no longer his coach. Kilty switched to Rana Reider late last year.

Reider was Nike USATF coach of the year in 2011.

Christie was found to have nearly 100 times the permitted limit of nandrolone in his system.

Randy Oldman wrote:

Rana Reider

Only one of three elite british sprint groups. Steve Fudge and Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo are both doing great things.

The 3 training groups;

Rana Reider-

Steve Fudge-

Jonas T-D-

Randy Oldman wrote:

Christie was found to have nearly 100 times the permitted limit of nandrolone in his system.

As did Merlene Ottey, Troy Douglas,Dieter Baumann, top 10 tennis player Korda, soccer players Edgar Davids, Jaap Stam, Frank de Boer en half the Juventus soccer squad as well as some bobsledders.

The soccer players got a 2 month suspension in the off-season, Douglas had to sit out 2 years, Christie has been blacklisted ever since by BBC en the British Olympic Movement.

Those nandrolone positives in the 90's were a result of using a product which converted to nandrolone after ingestion. Whether they took this knowingly as I am sure many of them did or unknowingly, which was bound to happen, there was a lot of this going on back then.

A lot of British sprinters were doing this, so it is reasonable to assume that it was happening in other countries too.