I posted this on the sprint thread, but I thought the great Usain Bolt deserves his own thread. He opens up 2015 with a loss in the 4x100 at the Gibson Relays! The loss was shocking because his team also included Warren Weir and Kemar Bailey-Cole.
http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/usain-bolt-beaten-2015-gibson-relays-4x100m
Should be an interesting year
Hmmm. It's early. Complete transformation still possible.
Maybe the new JADCO is not as athlete friendly?
Also it was in a relay, from reading the article it seems that bolt ran a good leg but his teammates didn't ( i dont know maybe it wasn't that great) but from what i got from this article was that bolt's teammates are sucking it up compared to bolt
True. The result doesn't really say anything about Bolt as an individual. I'm not sure what Bolt's split was, but here's the video:
He looked quick, although not like he did in his prime, but still quick. He got the baton nearly 3 strides down and almost pulled even with a 10,.2 sprinter. Btw, Bolt has gotten progressive slower in terms of his season average over last couple of years, but he has still managed to run fast when it really counts. He is probably not going to 9.6x again, but with Blake unable to stay healthy, with Tyson and Gatlin in the twilight of their careers, Bolt is still the man to beat.
But he looks like if he has gained some weight/muscle. Not sure if that is going to help...
TrackCoach wrote:
He looked quick, although not like he did in his prime, but still quick. He got the baton nearly 3 strides down and almost pulled even with a 10,.2 sprinter. Btw, Bolt has gotten progressive slower in terms of his season average over last couple of years, but he has still managed to run fast when it really counts. He is probably not going to 9.6x again, but with Blake unable to stay healthy, with Tyson and Gatlin in the twilight of their careers, Bolt is still the man to beat.
Timewise Gatlin is in his prime not twilight. He ran his 100 and 200 prs last year....
Bailey-Cole was terrible. The race was lost during his leg. Bolt made a good charge, but needed 10-20 more metres.
easy weeks wrote:
Bailey-Cole was terrible. The race was lost during his leg. Bolt made a good charge, but needed 10-20 more metres.
Agree on BC. But I thought Bolt tied up. 10-20 more metres and he'd have injured himself.
Gatlin is a known fraud, and therefore irrelevant. I could care less how much success he has. The fact that he is running PRs supposedly clean after a doping suspension is an embarrassment to the sport. A lot of other guys, including Bolt, are probably on some type of PEDs, but at least they aren't rubbing it in our faces.
Bolt raced again Saturday (3/14)
He won the 400 in 46.37 at the GC Foster Classic.
video:
That looked like it hurt as expected. Should give him a fitness boost. He's obviously some way short of his best form. 2015 will be an ordinary year for him, but next year......
Bolt runs his first 200 of the year!
20.20 to win the Utech Classic