Here's a guy that has ran 9.92 and 19.80 in 2011. I thought he was going to be a force to be contended with in the 200. However he's practically been on a downhill slide ever since. He's only 26 what do you reckon happened?
Here's a guy that has ran 9.92 and 19.80 in 2011. I thought he was going to be a force to be contended with in the 200. However he's practically been on a downhill slide ever since. He's only 26 what do you reckon happened?
Nothing happened, he just was never going to do more than he did. Actually think he over acheived.
He set the clean WRs in 100m and 200m. Really can't expect more than that.
So what records did he break?
TheMaster wrote:
Only white boys can set the clean WRs...
^Fixed that for you.
He hit the wall. It happens to all great white hopes sooner or late, generally sooner.
Two things we notice about white sprinters. One is they don't last long at the top and second is they are better at the 200m than the 100m. If, they run both.
Clavin Von Zack wrote:
Two things we notice about white sprinters. One is they don't last long at the top and second is they are better at the 200m than the 100m. If, they run both.
Actually some top white sprinters have been better at the 100m or the 60m thn the 200m.
John Teeters is a good example. Kilty of Great Britain too.
9.92 was with a max tailwind.His times in subsequent years were commensurate with that, just without the wind.
tetsu wrote:
Here's a guy that has ran 9.92 and 19.80 in 2011. I thought he was going to be a force to be contended with in the 200. However he's practically been on a downhill slide ever since. He's only 26 what do you reckon happened?
I actually think he has marginally regressed but the rest of the elite sprinters have gotten better. I wonder why? You guys can figure that out. I will say this if he is dirty he is doing something that doesn't involve any anabolic steroids as he is still built like a 400 meter runner.
Decided to go cleAn. Didn't like to look At his PED self in the mirror.
Drugs, Drugs, Drugs! wrote:
tetsu wrote:Here's a guy that has ran 9.92 and 19.80 in 2011. I thought he was going to be a force to be contended with in the 200. However he's practically been on a downhill slide ever since. He's only 26 what do you reckon happened?
I actually think he has marginally regressed but the rest of the elite sprinters have gotten better. I wonder why? You guys can figure that out. I will say this if he is dirty he is doing something that doesn't involve any anabolic steroids as he is still built like a 400 meter runner.
He weighs less than Chris Solinsky despite being 2'' taller
Drugs, Drugs, Drugs! wrote:
tetsu wrote:Here's a guy that has ran 9.92 and 19.80 in 2011. I thought he was going to be a force to be contended with in the 200. However he's practically been on a downhill slide ever since. He's only 26 what do you reckon happened?
I actually think he has marginally regressed but the rest of the elite sprinters have gotten better. I wonder why? You guys can figure that out. I will say this if he is dirty he is doing something that doesn't involve any anabolic steroids as he is still built like a 400 meter runner.
Right. If he is doping, it's "soft" stuff like stimulants.
I think it's strange that guys like Gatlin and Bolt can stay at their peak for many years. It's like Lance winning seven titles in a row. I think having a peak year and then some off years seems more normal.
Bolt has not stayed at his peak for many years. He has dropped more from 2009 than Lemaitre has dropped from 2011, at least in the 100. Gatlin is a different case with many years off due to a drug ban.
Why do you think so many people get injured--Bolt, Gatlin, Bromell, Fraser-Pryce, Felix and others just this year? The training to be at the top of the event is VERY hard and it wears the body down.
Is anyone here actually involved with sprinting, and might know the characteristics of a doping sprinter and clean? I have seen Lemaitre run and he seems to be winded after every race. Not so much for most sprinters. Could he actually be one of few clean ones? Why would he not want to go heavy with the doping and drop down to 9.6 or something like that? Payoff could worth the risks involved...
cnnbbc wrote:
Is anyone here actually involved with sprinting, and might know the characteristics of a doping sprinter and clean? I have seen Lemaitre run and he seems to be winded after every race. Not so much for most sprinters. Could he actually be one of few clean ones? Why would he not want to go heavy with the doping and drop down to 9.6 or something like that? Payoff could worth the risks involved...
Everything about the way he runs is different from his competitors.
You know how he often blazes past 3-4 guys in the last 10m? I wonder where he'd rank for fastest last 10m of a sub-10 second 100m. This might be a bit extreme, but I wouldn't be surprised if only Bolt and Blake have him beat in that category in recent history.
He is fast by Caucasian standard.By world class standard,he is average.
cnnbbc wrote:
Is anyone here actually involved with sprinting, and might know the characteristics of a doping sprinter and clean? I have seen Lemaitre run and he seems to be winded after every race. Not so much for most sprinters.
After the Monaco 200m pretty much all of them were standing around bent over for about a minute afterward.
The 200m accelerates breathing tremendously because it pushes anaerobic energy use to such extremes, which generates a lot of acid, and that acid is cleared mostly by expelling CO2. It's not far enough to feel it build up, but it's there.
Heart rate has to skyrocket during an all-out 200m sprint because the skeletal muscle pump, i.e. the calf muscles, forces venous blood into the heart.
111 wrote:
He is fast by Caucasian standard.By world class standard,he is average.
Yep, he's the 39th fastest 100m and 18th fastest 200m man of all time, pretty average indeed.