Sour grapes !
They say 'white man can't jump'; well,he can't run either.He should stick to golf and curling.
Sour grapes !
They say 'white man can't jump'; well,he can't run either.He should stick to golf and curling.
I think he had a better chance of winning the 200 than the 100 because his weakness has always been his start out of the blocks
Bolt is retired. Retired peoples don't run no stinking 200 meters!
800ftw. wrote:
Lightning Rod wrote:2 Reasons: WVN, Mukwala
No, Bolt announced he'd only do the 100 long before either of those two expressed interest in doing the 200m.
Bolt knows the 200 is hard training wise, the 100m not so much. He wanted to retire. His coach and sponsors begged him to do one more season. He doesn't actually want to himself.
The 100m is less work.
I think he half assed this season and I don't mean that in a derogatory way. We all know that guy who half assed a season, especially the talented ones who use the regular season to train for the big races later on. .3 seconds from the title, not a bad result for half assing it.
aduck2022 wrote:
...no other person benefitted more from current
and previous situation and emergence of igf-1 lr3 .
either we get the true dirt soon showing their absolute control of doping
within sport and whole narrative or we will never .
...
http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/40796425
All that has been publicly printed so far is that Bolt and Radcliffe were seeing the Hans doctor since they were teenagers, right? Or consider the famous footballer on Growth Hormone since he was 11(?) years old.
Genetic and Epigenetic Modulation of Growth Hormone Sensitivity Studied With the IGF-1 Generation Test.
"...in a sample of 72 children with idiopathic short stature"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25835289Epigetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics)
Bolt is the greatest sprinter of all time but father time is undefeated. His time is over, also he has already won everything so the will to train hard is probably no longer there for him.
aduck2022 wrote:
also
just like article in intelligence controlled marxist bbc where bolt told
to say how dirty athletics is now and killing sport but just mocking the public
as he is the very reason it is , no other person benefitted more from current
and previous situation and emergence of igf-1 lr3 .
either we get the true dirt soon showing their absolute control of doping
within sport and whole narrative or we will never .
absolutely mocking and comments section for article controlled too obviously
http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/40796425
Pablo Escobar in the Colombian parliament lecturing on the evils of cocaine?
aduck2022 - you are right in some ways. The politics behind letting the E. Africans avoid out of season testing and burying their positive tests whenever possible has done incredible harm to the sport. But that was the intent in the first place. You have to look outside the sport to get the full picture.
broken arrow wrote:
Bolt is the greatest sprinter of all time but father time is undefeated. His time is over, also he has already won everything so the will to train hard is probably no longer there for him.
Its not about age as much as he no longer has the desire to train at the highest level. Gatlin, Dwain, Kim Collins all were performing superbly in their mid 30s. 30 is not old in the modern era of sports science, for many its their prime.
trollism wrote:
Ribtickler wrote:He confirmed this as long ago as Rio last year, that this year would be his final Champs and that he'd only be doing the 100m.
Yeah, cause he knew back in Rio that WvN would tear him a new one.
It doesn't matter when he announced this, he's not running because it was a guaranteed loss.
"guaranteed loss." What utter rubbish. VNK will struggle to go sub 19.8 given he has run the 400m already.
If Bolt actually trained during the offseason instead of an 6 week training cycle he would comfortably do 19.65 and there is no chance VNK runs that.
Bolt is genetically one level above anyone who has ever tried a 200m, he is built for that event and when fit is light years ahead of the competition. The only person in history who I think could compare with modern training knowledge, diet and equipment is Tommie Smith.
fiji7s wrote:
"guaranteed loss." What utter rubbish. VNK will struggle to go sub 19.8 given he has run the 400m already.
If Bolt actually trained during the offseason instead of an 6 week training cycle he would comfortably do 19.65 and there is no chance VNK runs that.
Bolt is genetically one level above anyone who has ever tried a 200m, he is built for that event and when fit is light years ahead of the competition. The only person in history who I think could compare with modern training knowledge, diet and equipment is Tommie Smith.
Right? These people are nuts. Training for the 100m might be easier, but if a man built for the 200m trains for the 100m he is more likely to lose.
With his long stride and top speed, he could have owned the 200m. He would have made it his goddam plaything. But nobody cares about the 200m. The 100m is the glamour event of T&F. That's why he picked the 100m.
Steve St. Leo Prefountaine wrote:
fiji7s wrote:"guaranteed loss." What utter rubbish. VNK will struggle to go sub 19.8 given he has run the 400m already.
If Bolt actually trained during the offseason instead of an 6 week training cycle he would comfortably do 19.65 and there is no chance VNK runs that.
Bolt is genetically one level above anyone who has ever tried a 200m, he is built for that event and when fit is light years ahead of the competition. The only person in history who I think could compare with modern training knowledge, diet and equipment is Tommie Smith.
Right? These people are nuts. Training for the 100m might be easier, but if a man built for the 200m trains for the 100m he is more likely to lose.
With his long stride and top speed, he could have owned the 200m. He would have made it his goddam plaything. But nobody cares about the 200m. The 100m is the glamour event of T&F. That's why he picked the 100m.
Exactly - the 100 is the still the glamour event in the sport. For a guy like Bolt it is easy to train for as well, although his start was still poor. He obviously didn't train enough or race enough to do as well as timed allowed. Perhaps he thought he would get away with it anyway- he didn't.
No one was going to run really fast in the cool conditions of a London night, but Bolt has been entertaining, a real personality in a sport devoid of them (lots of cold fish with little personality is the norm as it isn't necessary in order to run fast). Hopefully both he and Gatlin retire,permanently now to let the current young crop (Coieman, Degrasse, etc.) take over. They have had their time in the limelight. I'm kind of glad to see Gatlin win and extinguish the demons haunting him the past decade trying to beat Bolt. Now he too can run off into the sunset a champion again. Bolt should have retired after RIo, as he obviously didn't have the motivation to take this year seriously, but losing doesn't diminish his career in my mind, rather it makes second-guessing his retirement implausible - he is done.
I have never been able to understand the argument that he is should have retired after rio, or even that he should retire now. He is only 31, and while he has made a bunch of money, is it really the kind of money that you can live on for the rest of your life while enjoying the lifestyle that bolt likely does.
If I were a track and field athlete with a decent contract, I would keep running as long as someone is willing to pay me. At this point its not like these guys are really going to do anything else that will be particularly lucrative (obviously there are exceptions).
He became so self absorbed the past few years and as his performances suffered.
Glad to see him go time for new blood in the sport