BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 12: Asafa Powell of Jamaica competes in the Men’s 200 metres race during the IAAF Golden League Meet in the Olympic Stadium on September 12, 2004
BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 12: Asafa Powell of the USA in action during the 200 Metres at the IAAF Golden League Meet in the Olympic Stadium on September 12, 2004
ATHENS, Greece: Athletes competing in the men’s 200m round 1 are reflected in the pool of the 3,000m steeple at the Olympic Stadium 24 August 2004 during the Olympic Games athletics competitions
ATHENS, Greece: (From L) Bahamas’ Dominic Demeritte, Malaysia’s Nazmizan Muhammad, Greek Panayiotis Sarris, British Virgin Island’s Dion Crabbe, Jamaica’s Asafa Powell, Czech Jiri Vojtik, Australian Adam Miller compete in heat 5, round 1 of the men’s 200m, 24 August 2004, during the Olympic Games athletics competitions
A Bonus pic of Asafa before he was really famous:
PARIS - AUGUST 24: Asafa Powell of Jamaica in action during the first round of the men’s 100m heats at the 9th IAAF World Athletics Championship August 24, 2003 in Paris, France
He was gonna win. If he was not disqualified then. It was gonna be a surprise then. But guys. I watched the heats like a 100 times. And he was THE athlete to pick for winning. Drummond could’ve also won. But how ironic. Both of which looked the best in heats were disqualified
Dwight Thomas (JAM) wins 100m in Serbia on Wednesday 7 June 2006. Also in picture are Kim Collins (STK) & Jason Gardener (GBR) who looks like he’s running with a back problem, pelvis looks rolled back under or something…
He pulled out of the Commonwealths with a back problem. He is entered for the Grand Prix at Gateshead on Sunday against Asafa and Frater. I will be there so will let you guys know how they are looking.
I have always disliked the way Gardener runs. He is competitive in the 60 but he always looks like he tries to hold his drive phase 10 meters too long for his accel values. Then for the last 30 m of the race he looks like he is pointing is toe out to the threshold of poor foot placement. Thoughts?
Last I heard…Gardener had pulled out. I was speaking to him just a couple of weeks ago…From what I could understand I don’t think he was entirely pleased with running at Gateshead especially as he was still nursing this back injury.
He said his coach may not be happy with him for how he finished, and why would he? he did ease up (compare his 9.77 from last year to this year - last year he ran through the line).
He is running smarter than last year though, 9.77 last year, and then nothing… this year built up to it, exploded with the =WR. see what he has the rest of the season…
Hi Kitkat that was my initial impression and I’ve seen nothing to change it, great pics by the way. Could that shoulder rotation be the technique that Charlie mentioned in some thread (can’t remember which). He thought that Marion Jones would benefit from that alteration in her technique. Or is Asafa overdoing it, hard to tell from still pics. Comments please…
