Another Asian sprinter goes sub 10... with just 0.5 wind. Thoughts, especially from sprintgeezer? I’ve heard many say Japan has some of the cleanest athletes, although it could be false. Anyways looks like Japan will have a strong 4x100 team this world champs.
There was a world record 100m sprinter from Japan in the 30's.
And one won this seasons SEC in Sani Brown.
But...........we just don't see a gang/group of speedy Asian sprinters like we do from other places. A really fast Asian sprinter is still a rarity. Hell, TCU has had 8 sub10.00 sprinters among the alum. That's more than all of Asia combined.
Whatley wrote:
There was a world record 100m sprinter from Japan in the 30's.
And one won this seasons SEC in Sani Brown.
But...........we just don't see a gang/group of speedy Asian sprinters like we do from other places. A really fast Asian sprinter is still a rarity. Hell, TCU has had 8 sub10.00 sprinters among the alum. That's more than all of Asia combined.
And how many of those TCU sprinters were doped to the gills?
You tell me......
Talking.
Jon Drummond
Kim Collins
Darvis Patton
Michael Frater
Percival Spencer
Charles Silmon
Ronnie Baker
Ray Stewart
Go ahead who were the druggies there? Well?
Whatley wrote:
You tell me......
Talking.
Jon Drummond
Kim Collins
Darvis Patton
Michael Frater
Percival Spencer
Charles Silmon
Ronnie Baker
Ray Stewart
Go ahead who were the druggies there? Well?
Well Drummond was busted for supplying PED's as a coach and so was Stewart so is it a stretch that they wouldn't use as an athlete. Frater is a Yamaican, Collins for a while defied the aging process, if you want to you could find shadows everywhere in track and field.
Robotzxn: BANZAI !
I love Koike’s style, he hits it right from the gun and never lets up. Sort of like Su, only Su has more lift in vmax and maintenance. Koike needs to relax more at speed, I bet his 200 is not as good as his 100. He looks like he does a lot of sled training, which would be great.
I think that he has eclipsed Kiryu because Kiryu seems to have waffled a bit.
This is more great news for the JPN relay.
Clean? Unknown. A JPN distance woman tested positive last year. IDK what his progression is like, but this time is right in there with the best in history in JPN, guys like Ito.
Very nicely done, over 2 rounds. I love this guy!
But boy, this race was all about Hughes shutting it down in the semi.
The world don’t make sense anymore.
What are you talking about, that was a great race. All the big names went well, Gemili was credible, and Koike had an excellent outing.
All of these guys should be really pumped for WC.
Sprintgeezer wrote:
Robotzxn: BANZAI !
I love Koike’s style, he hits it right from the gun and never lets up. Sort of like Su, only Su has more lift in vmax and maintenance. Koike needs to relax more at speed, I bet his 200 is not as good as his 100. He looks like he does a lot of sled training, which would be great.
I think that he has eclipsed Kiryu because Kiryu seems to have waffled a bit.
This is more great news for the JPN relay.
Clean? Unknown. A JPN distance woman tested positive last year. IDK what his progression is like, but this time is right in there with the best in history in JPN, guys like Ito.
Very nicely done, over 2 rounds. I love this guy!
But boy, this race was all about Hughes shutting it down in the semi.
Japan has some legit sprinters, however Koike has an unusual progression for a japanese sprinter, who tend to be very fast very young and improve by small steps.
Unlike his countrymen who were hovering around 10"00 before breaking 10" (Kiryu, Yamagata, Sani Brown), Koike was, before 2018, a very averge sprinter for their standards with a basic PB of 10"35, and was stagnating , then last year he improved to 10"17, then this year he cracked 10".
I don't have doubt habout japanese sprinters, but had this guy been of any other nationality, he would raise red flags (the fact that they are hosting the Olympics next year, might instill doubts though)
Whatley wrote:
You tell me......
Talking.
Jon Drummond
Kim Collins
Darvis Patton
Michael Frater
Percival Spencer
Charles Silmon
Ronnie Baker
Ray Stewart
Go ahead who were the druggies there? Well?
Well... how about everyone?
Was around 10.35 for 3 years, in 2013, 2014, and 2015...then slipped back to 10.5 in 2016 and 2017...then had that signature 0.5-second-over-1-or-2-years improvement, from also-ran to essentially global top-10, at sub-10.
These points are not in Koike’s favor, not at all. We will see...maybe. Disappointing.
Meantime, Su has been nowhere to be seen, after his early sub-par marks.