Looking at these pictures really shows that sprinters definitely do come in all shapes and sizes! Christie and Mo, Devers and Jones…
I’ve noticed that Donovan has wide hips - he certainly doesn’t possess the typical sprinter ‘V-shape’ like Asafa. And look at Jesse Owens’ calfs!!! big low calfs!
Is that Al Jolson coming in second?
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with Joe Louis aka “the brown bomber”
Damn his pants were high. I used to have a boss that wore his pants like that. Right below the nipple!
Bet if Louis was in his prime today you wouldn’t be chipping him about being a Harry Highpants:p
Yea I would cause if he hit me and I lived I would be a very rich man.
Pognon and Fasuba (kneeling) training in Doha 08
David, after he moved to Amerika and hit the fast food joints
this was posted elsewhere but who says vertical forces aren’t important :eek:
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Doha 2008 100m
Priscilla Lopes (Canada, left), Allyson Felix (Etats Unis) and Sherry-Ann Brooks (Jamaica)
David Oliver - US hurdler went sub-13 in Doha 08
New $100m Sports museum in New York
Peter Norman stands beside a statue commemorating the act of sportsmanship in 1956 when John Landy turned back to assist a fallen junior star Ron Clarke to his feet during the Australian mile championship. Landy still won the race. Clarke went on to set 23 world records in longer distance events. The statue has been erected outside the Melbourne Cirkcte Ground, which had been the main stadium for the 1956 Olympic Games.
Tommie Smith & John Carlos attended Peter Norman’s funeral in Australia
Peter Norman’s wife and two daughters present a framed photograph of the Black Power Salute to Shawn Crawford who won a 200m race named in Norman’s memory at the Melbourne grand prix.
Isaac Ntiamoah and Josh Ross (in grey tights) on 7 May 08. Ross looks to have all his muscle mass back in place. He won the Osaka B-100m in 10.41sec into a 1.4m/s very cold (12.5c) wind and rain. This was faster than the winner of the A-race, which had a tailwind.
In this image Ntiamoah struggles to make the handover. A few days later in Osaka, he failed to catch Ross and the Aussie 4x100 relay DNFd. Ross says he left “a foot” early, but Ntiamoah was tight around the bend and was probably never going to catch Ross according to one witness. However the Aussies led until that fateful final failed “exchange”.