I have no idea how you guys are getting these times (pj, topcat, tmssf, a little help here?).
My point is (like rainy.here said) is that it is an indicator of 9.7x. Ah if only the Olympic 100m was 2 rounds with an Asafa preferred length break in between.
To me the standout looked to be Trinidad & Tobago (Emmanuel Callender?) or was it just the lanes? They made a total hash of the last exchange though :o
I believe that was Richard Thompson, not Callender. 7.87 for him (last 90m) vs 7.61 for Asafa.
I think if Asafa gets aggressive he can PR fairly comfortably in a meet after the Olympics. No comments on this? A month ago no one could stop talking about Asafa.
Well wasnt the relay final his 17th race? Race 18 coming up 
pj preliminary split-times (not his final work) has Powell 8.68 for anchor. I await his final work with great anticipation, as I’m sure many others will
Thompson ran the final leg, I was talking about 3rd where Callender ran against Bolt. Watch that and the pedestrian pass to Thompson.
Asafa isn’t running badly he will no doubt run some impressive times over the next few meets, WR? 
not really sure
I see. I misunderstood what you said. Yes, an excellent 3rd leg for him but still still not Bolt territory:)
bangs head against wall
How to get 90m split. Fairly simple then you can haggle over a .03 range.
start frame
end frame
ok so i just moved and dont have a tv and i only just now saw the 4x100m.
Ill tell you now…ASAFA POWELL will break the 100m work record in the near future…
that final leg was R-I-D-I-C-U-L-0-U-S !!!that was way faster than D Baileys last leg those years ago…
WOW!
Beijing08-8.68 anchor leg vs. Osaka07-8.85 anchor leg is a significant improvement.
I’ve been analyzing a majority of powell races this year and and have noticed he has more power, having slightly improved stride length to where the final number of strides over an all-out 100m is one less than 2007.
Rieti07-9.78wind0.0- he was all out full race and 46 knee raises from blocks to 100m
Monaco08-9.82wind0.0- he was all out full race and 45 knee raises from blocks to 100m.
I definitely believe we will see a 9.6X basic run from powell, while shutting down at some point, before the season is over. Not that it’d mean anything as to who the man is this year(Bolt), just something wicked deadly I believe will occur.
Coming in late for this discussion. USATF High Performance registered split analysis:
Carter- 10.41
Frater- 9.01
Bolt - 8.98
Powell 8.70
Don’t know what their video configuration was assuming these calcs like many weren’t real-time. Data reduction processing was probably Dartfish (similar to PJ, HPC, SprintX, etc.).
Thanks for that.
Note: We must realize that official relay splits don’t mean much when trying to predict the quality of individual performances. Give 'safa the baton at the start of the zone and he’ll split 9. Handoff at the end of the zone and he’ll split 7.
Asafa will definitely break 9.6 but we already know who the man of the future is. He did it without trying and did the other one with headwind.
The official WC and O splits are taken at 100m point of the zones regardless of who has it as far as I remember.
I remember hearing on local tv in JA that Powells split was 8.77s, they said the other splits too, but I dont remember them
Well BBC say 8.84, I said 8.60, someone quoted PJ saying a tentative 8.68, Jamaica says 8.77, c99a says 8.76?
I don’t think anyone knows what the hell is going on! 
I guess the parallax concerns with different planes and limitations with NTSC or PAL sources can have that effect for determining splits regarding hundredths of a second!
I guess we can just sum it up as FAST AS F*CK