I’m honestly not sure what you mean here.
Also Jamaica wasn’t/isn’t dominating sprinting. You’ve let yourself get caught up in the hype surrounding the U.S. not knowing how to react when they lose a couple events. The U.S. won or placed in the top 3 in every sprint/hurdles. The U.S. didn’t win the 4x1’s, but they won both 4x4’s. Jamaica placed 3rd & 8th.
Jamaica had nothing to do with Torri flinching in the blocks. Jamaica had nothing to do with the U.S. dropping the baton’s. The 4x1 record that Jamaica broke, should have been broken 2-3 times already by 3 different U.S. teams in the past 10 years.
Asafa has been fast for the past 4-5 years. Nothing new. Nesta Carter, Michael Frater? How much better did they get than Walter Dix, Richard Thompson, Darvis Patton, Travis Padgett, etc. Get my point?
Take a look at Jamaica’s success in all olympic events. On that page is listed all the medals they have ever won. Get to the bottom and where before they won barely any medals and were lucky to win more than 2 in a single games and the medals they won were mostly bronze with a few silvers and the occasional gold, at the bottom you find in the 2008 Beijing games:
5 golds
3 silvers
6 bronze (relay)
To say that either
a Jamaica isn’t dominating the Sprint events
or that
b)This hasn’t basically come out of nowhere is frankly stupid.
If more people stopped being so sterotypical, there would be more athletes over 6’2" running the 100m. It’s ok for a tall athlete to have an amazing start. Instead we have them all being shoved into the 400m because that’s what seems right.
I don’t know about this, there have been lots of good tall runners. In my opinion whatever you lose in the start with height you gain in your top speed and vica versa. The effect of height really cancels out either way.