You know who wrote:
Excluding bogus results: Thompson 9.82, Brown 9.93, Magakwe 9.98A, Gatlin 10.02, Adams 10.01, Rogers 10.04, Collins 9.96:
1 Gatlin 9.82
2 Rodgers 9.92
3 Bolt 9.94
4 Gay 9.95
5 Bailey-Cole 9.97
6 Ashmeade 9.98
7 Carter 9.99
8 Thompson 10.02
9 Ujah 10.03
10 Vicaut/Dasaolu 10.04
There you have it, your top 10 adjusted non-bogus 100m times so far in 2014, with Weltklasse, and Brussels left on the Diamond League circuit.
Some things:
1. Gatlin is .10 ahead of the next-best guy, a significant margin.
2. While everybody is talking about Bolt sucking, he is THIRD. Actually he should be tied for 6th with Ashmeade as I find it difficult to believe there was a headwind indoors, but whatever, I let that one stand, there might have been an HVAC effect.
3. Good for Thompson, he is in the top-10.
4. Top is Americans, followed by Jamaicans, followed by ROW.
5. ONLY Americans and Jamaicans are sub-10, nobody from ROW. This surprised me as I was making the list.
6. Rodgers has done well for himself this year, he has learned to pivot more around the trunk like Gatlin, and extend his stride at full speed, giving him better SE, and better times.
7. The entire list is contained within essentially a mere 0.10 except for Gatlin, who this year is clearly an "outlier" based not only on single best performances, but on all performances this season.
8. Powell is missing from the list, coming next at 10.05 He improved dramatically in his 2 outings, and he isn't down for either Zurich or Brussels. I think he would be in there if he ran again.
9. There are lots of bogus times, from unreliable wind readings (Collins, Gatlin) to bogus national hero timing (Thompson, Adams, Rogers), to altitude (Magakwe), to incompetent timing (Brown), the most egregious of which has got to be Thompson's 9.82
The upshot: Bolt is great, Gay is still benefiting from roids, Gatlin and Rodgers are at their absolute max performance, getting as much out of their sprinting style as possible, and the arguably clean guys are all hovering around 10-flat.