“Next year msy only goal is the Olympics,” said Powell. “I plan to race many more times before the Olympics than I did this year.”
this quote was taken from an article a couple days ago on trackand fieldnews.com.
Maybe Asafa’s people recieved Charlie’s graphs, hopefully anyway.
He was also hurt this year and had far fewer races than he normally does, which limited his season (and his money if you think of the golden league) significantly.
We sent them to the management team- so maybe…
did you get a response?
There was no acknowledgement, which is no surprise even if they did act on them.
In any event, Asafa is stating the connection between an enhanced race schedule and peak performance, which has not been acted on before previous major games.
FAST FORWARD.
Asafa Powell wins the 100m at Beijing and credits it to [i]a great idea from my management team to race more as they noticed a direct correlation between my world record’s the last few years and the number of races before hand. Everyone, including me, thought I choked at Osaka last year but I didn’t have the confidence as I hadn’t raced enough beforehand. The races there set me up for the world record a couple of weeks later[/i]
There is a rumor that Powell’s win at Beijing was accomplished using the same pre race preparation as Ben Johnson did in Seoul, both squatted 600lbs in the warm up room, in an ironic twist Frank Dick was on hand to witness both…it was a freaky deja vu experience he said.
osaka may not be that they planned for a light racing schedule, they just sorta backed into one when he got hurt in may/june.
Don’t you mean 700lbs with a 5 second pause at the bottom? 
aHH, hAAA … so we have another WITNESS !!!
Osaka wasn’t the first time they were short of races (anyone have the link to the graphs?)
How could they have kept the weightroom secret when it had so many people in it?
True, but correct me if i’m wrong, but in 07 they started a bit earlier with the prep and if things had gone accordingly they would have not been short on races come Osaka.
I’m sure Dick or Aberht have the anwser (as they always do).
It’s possible but with a L-to-S set up, there is a higher risk of injury because of a steeper adaptaion to speed close to the comp period. that’s why I was suggesting more comps in the winter period, as in 2006- to ensure there’s time to get in enough meets relative to the time spent at slower speeds in the prep period.
Maybe they did get the graphs…and listen to Charlie.
"THE world’s fastest man, Asafa Powell, is kicking off his Beijing Olympics campaign in Australia next year.
In a massive coup for Athletics Australia, the Jamaican world record-holder will run in the Sydney Grand Prix on February 16 and then the opening event of the World Athletics Tour in Melbourne on February 21.
Powell will base himself at Olympic Park in Melbourne for three weeks and bring with him more international stars, including 2005 world championships silver medallist Michael Frater of Jamaica, 2003 world championships silver medallist Darrel Brown of Trinidad and Tobago and the No. 1 ranked female sprinter in the world last year, Sherone Simpson of Jamaica.
The success of Powell’s previous visit to Melbourne for last year’s Commonwealth Games was a key factor in his decision to return for what shapes as the most important season of his career.
His reputation is on the line in Beijing after a self-confessed meltdown in the 100m final at this year’s world championships in Osaka where he was beaten into third behind American Tyson Gay. Apart from his Commonwealth Games 100m title, Powell has yet to claim victory in a major event.
To add to the frustration, two weeks after his Osaka debacle in the small Italian town of Rieti on September 9, the Jamaican superstar smashed his own world record, running 9.74sec, 0.03 under the mark he had set in 2005 and twice equalled last year.
Athletics Australia international liaison Maurie Plant, who orchestrated Powell’s Commonwealth Games appearance, confirmed last night the 25-year-old was looking forward to returning.
“In 2006 he came and prepared here and things went very well that year,” Plant said. "They have very good memories of a good batch of training and competition here that really set them up for the year.
“He knows that he is going to have to be at his very, very best in Beijing and I guess it is very pointed for Australia that he feels he should be down here preparing. Given the considerable choices he probably has, I think it is a feather in the cap for Australia.”
Plant predicted a sub-10sec run would be on the cards given Powell will come to town in better shape than last year, when he jogged down the straight at the MCG to win the Commonwealth Games gold medal in 10.03sec.
“I think he will run in a more focused situation,” he said. “He is a lot further advanced than that this year. I mean, since he last came here he has equalled the old world record twice and set a new one.”
The appearance of Powell should ignite the domestic season and help Athletics Australia, which is desperately searching for a major sponsor after the withdrawal of Telstra.
“This is one of the absolute pillars of sport,” Plant said. "You look at Sydney last night, they had 80,000 there to see one of the great sportsman and this guy is questionably as big a name as him (Beckham) in terms of what he has achieved. The facts are he has run faster than any other human ever.
“We think it is a huge win for the sport, the fact we are going to have an absolute superstar in town, and hopefully it can spark further improvement from our own guys like Josh Ross and Patrick Johnson.”"
found on tfnews.com
Interesting development.
Now if they could just get CF and PJ down there with Franno, what a nice roundtable for a coaching forum … c’mon Nanny, get to work:D
Dear, how about instead of that mid winter holiday we were going to have in Noumea or Rarotonga to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary we go to Melbourne in March instead?