Bolt 9.69 and the New Limits of Human Performance

Some of the issue may actually be at the lower levels, where athletes develop and many coaches seem to have one-size-fits-all training. If you have a taller individual on a tempo-based program in high school, that probably equals a 400 runner, not a pure sprinter. Because of this, we might have a couple of Usain Bolts in the USA, but they’re running 400.