“I’ll be doubling now (in the Olympics), definitely,” Bolt told Reuters in New York after setting the world record."
I should hope so too!
As Charlie mentions in Speed Trap, The 100m Champion is the King of Track and Field. The fastest human has held the throne for decades, from Eddie Tolan through Jesse Owens to Bob Hayes.
Bolt would be mad not to double up! He’ll get paid more in Europe too if he’s 100m Champ, as opposed to ‘simply’ the 200 winner.
I can’t comment on the double, as I’m not sure how running that many rounds effects things. I was referring to simply the 100m.
hes the fastest ever in 100m and he’ll be top 3-4 at least in the 200m this year…the guy has to run the double if you ask me…its been done before so no excuse…
Celine Dion can sing all the notes, thats why she annoys so many people, and does it in every song !!! hahaha
(that was my analogy to, if you have the talent use it) lol
Yes, she does sing all four notes in her repertoire.
Note 1: Very Annoying
Note 2: Extremely Annoying
Note 3: More Annoying than any other sound in the world, except for note 4.
Note 4: There are no words to describe this note, but 7-year old children will gouge out their own eyeballs rather than listen to it.
hahahhahaha…
funny guys…
i didnt wanna turn into a celine bashing…just thought it was funny and related somehow…haha…made me laugh alot when i writing it…
i actually am a fan…(can not beleive i just wrote that)
He should run the double…
lol
MEANWHILE:rolleyes: back on track with Mr B 
PARIS, June 2 AFP - Jamaica’s new 100 metres world record holder Usain Bolt will only race twice between the Jamaican Olympic trials at the end of June and the Olympics itself his agent told AFP today.
The 21-year-old clocked 9.72 seconds on Saturday to erase compatriot Asafa Powell’s time of 9.74sec from the record books, but his agent Ricky Simms said that he would not be overdoing his preparations for the Games in Beijing.
He will run only twice between the Jamaican trials and the Olympic Games. Probably a 100m and a 200m, but it's not decided yet. We are talking with a number of meetings,'' said Simms. According to Simms, Bolt is not against the idea of running against world champion Tyson Gay and Powell, who are due to meet in the July 25 meet in London. The Golden League meeting in Paris also is being considered, where Gay is entered and Powell was on the point of signing himself up when Bolt broke the record. Simms, though, is adamant that Bolt will not cash in on his new found status and harm his chances in Beijing. Obviously he can not run 9.7 every week, otherwise he’ll be dead in Beijing,’’ said Simms.
Bolt’s next race will a 200m in the Czech town of Ostrava on June 12, before he doubles up at the Jamaican trials.
I would wait to see what Bolt can do in the duece coming up here before deciding what hes gunna run in the olympics.
smart guy, seems like they know what their doing and arn’t like x-mans camp who found him a 400 right after 19.6 where he promptly got rocked.
also ostrava is a nice fast track that’ll probably offer good conditions weather wise, depending on whether he can come out like gangbusters and hold it there could be a really really fast 200.
Monday, 02 June 2008 Bolt: “I still think the 200m is my best race”
Usain Bolt with his World record clock in New York (Victah Sailer)
Bolt: “I still think the 200m is my best race”
2 June 2008 – New York, USA - Last Thursday, Usain Bolt explained to the New York press that despite running 9.76 for 100m earlier in the season in Jamaica, he wasn’t sure he’d run the 100m in the Jamaican Olympic Trials.
“We’re doing the 100m for speed work, really,” said the 200m World Championships silver medalist, who won his first global junior title in the longer event at age 15, and holds the World junior and Jamaican national records in that event at 19.93 and 19.75 respectively. “My coach told me we’d be doing more 100s this season, but not to get my hopes up about running it in the Olympics.”
Bolt’s coach, Glen Mills, could be forgiven for keeping a tight rein on his young charge’s ambitions. After all, Bolt, who will likely celebrate his 22nd birthday in Beijing, the day after the 200m final, would have been facing the then-World record holder, Asafa Powell, just in the Jamaican trials, not to mention the Olympic final.
Everything changed late on Saturday evening (31) when Bolt, whose nickname has been “Lightning” since his World Junior days, got a stride ahead of current World Champion Tyson Gay at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York, and streaked down the track to a new World record of 9.72*. “I think that will change today,” said Bolt of his prospective Olympic program after the New York meet. “I think I’ll be doubling.”
[Click here for a full report from Saturday’s New York meeting]
Working on his start
It was developing sound fundamentals for Bolt’s 200m which led him to the 100m record. “It’s been about my reaction time,” Bolt said on Thursday. “We’ve been working on listening for the gun, being aware of the gun, with handclaps and things like that. After that, it’s about my first step, and then my second step, and so on.” On Saturday, Bolt reiterated the course which led him to the record. “I give a lot of thanks to my coach. My start was terrible, and he’s done a lot for me.”
The practice paid off in New York. First there was a false start, which both Bolt and Gay called a gift afterwards, both claiming their first starts had been poor. “I thought his first start was better than mine,” Gay said after the race. “I heard a lot of guys oohing and ahhing because they had good starts but got called back.”
The second start was the one which paid off for Bolt. “I knew if I could beat Tyson out of the blocks, I had a good chance of winning, because Tyson’s good out of the blocks. Then I just did what my coach said, concentrated on my transition and my drive phase.” Gay had said as much on Thursday, explaining how he looked at the race: “If I get out of the blocks first … I’m not usually the one being chased. If he gets out first, or if we get out together, it’ll be a great race.”
Over by 50m
Gay, who now found himself in the unusual position of watching the race from behind, knew as well as Bolt did that their race was over after 50m. “I honestly think we were on the same rhythm, but his stride pattern was longer, and he was covering more ground [than Gay was] with every stride.”
Both sprinters acknowledged that the conditions at Icahn Stadium, built on the same Randall’s Island site where Leroy Burrell ran a 9.90 World Record in 1991, were not what sprinters usually consider optimal for a record. An earlier thunderstorm had not only disrupted the meet schedule, pushing the 100m start time past 11 PM, but left the air cool and the track wet. The fitful wind blew strongly while the sprinters were in the blocks, but calmed to a 1.7 m/s tailwind for race time. But Gay and Bolt asserted that conditions are partly a mind game. “The rain didn’t bother me, obviously it didn’t bother him,” said Gay. “The track was a little wet, but that didn’t stop anybody from running fast.”
Asked if he might have run faster on a dry track, Bolt said, “I don’t know. When you worry about conditions, it messes you up. In Helsinki [at the 2005 World Championships], I hated running in cold weather, and it messed me up. I told myself after that, you can’t let the conditions mess you up. I’m trying to condition my mind to run well if it’s windy or cold or whatever.”
Primarily a 200m runner
Despite this smashing success in the 100m, Bolt still sees himself primarily as a 200m runner. “I’ve been doing the 200m for six years,” he explained on Saturday. “I’ve been working hard on that race for a long time. I think I can be the best there, too.”
Bolt thinks the combination of his improved start and his sharpened speed will lead to better 200m performances this year, but he is cautious about predicting times. “I don’t try to guess what I’ll run until after my first race” of the season, he explained. His first 200m for 2008 will come on 12 June in Ostrava. “I’m looking forward to running my first 200. I think the 200 is my best race. But I’m not worried about breaking the record.”
Bolt explained how he’s learned from Mills to chase titles and let the records take care of themselves. “Coach Mills has taught me, the main thing is to become an Olympic gold medalist. 100m, 200m, it doesn’t matter to me as long as I have a gold medal around my neck. I’m not worried about time any more.”
“My coach always tells me, if you’re going to get a World record, it will come to you. I’m not worried about time right now. I don’t need to break [the 100m record] again; it’s mine. Maybe if somebody breaks it. You can have the World record, but if you don’t have the gold medal in the Olympics or the World Championships, it means nothing. To me, a gold medal is more important. If you win the Olympic gold medal, somebody’s got to wait four years to beat you. If you have the World record, somebody can take it from you at any time.”
Next steps for Bolt
Other than the 200m in Ostrava, the only other definite event on Bolt’s schedule is the Jamaican Olympic team trials, to be held in Kingston 27-29 June. This event, at least, assures that Bolt will meet the previous World record holder, Asafa Powell, before his mark is a month old. “I guess a lot of people are looking forward to that race,” Bolt noted, but went on to say, “It won’t be a showdown, we’re just trying to make the Olympic team.”
Any other schedule Bolt had previously established is now undoubtedly in chaos. Gay, scheduled to face Powell in London in July, professed no knowledge of Bolt’s plans. “I don’t even know if he’s going to run any more.”
What next in the 100m?
Gay remains a top contender to take the record from Bolt. Asked if he thought he could run 9.72, he replied, “I think I can. When you run under 9.8, your body tunes in to the speed. He’d run 9.7 before, so his body knew what it felt like.” Gay ran 9.76 on the same track in 2007, but it was wind-aided.
Asked, on Thursday, how far he thought the 100m record might fall, Gay got a faraway look in his eyes. “9.79?” he said. “9.77? 9.74?” The questioners laughed, but Gay turned serious. “I don’t know. I don’t think there are limits.”
More important, as Bolt said, are the Olympic medals, and now Bolt is a threat to win either 100m or 200m–or both.
Parker Morse for the IAAF
“My coach told me we’d be doing more 100s this season, but not to get my hopes up about running it in the Olympics.”
I assume these comments where made before setting the new WR.
Both Asafa and Bolt opened their seasons with 400m runs and both set WR over the last two years. Is there a pattern immerging? Setting up 100m WR with 400m openers.
haha, he seems to be saying that a lot - and we all know who had the WR for how many yrs now and hasn’t produced the gold medal :eek:
Asafas best chance now for gold is relay
Wait a minute… doesnt he have special shoes! You cant have special shoes! Don’t they have springs in those shoes to bolt him out of the starting line. What is going on? They didnt have these type of shoes 20 years ago! Not fair. Where is the golden age of running? Before all of these special enhancements came into play!!!
Asafa Powell says congrats, but he’s out to reclaim record
published: Monday | June 2, 2008
Anthony Foster, Freelance Writer
Asafa Powell, the former world 100m record holder, has hailed Usain Bolt’s record-breaking achievement, calling it deserving.
Bolt ran 9.72 at Saturday night’s Reebok Grand Prix in New York city, which erased Powell’s previous mark of 9.74 seconds.
“I am very happy for Bolt. He’s a big guy and he trains very hard, he deserves the record,” said Powell in a statement through his manager Paul Doyle.
While Powell congratulated Bolt, he made it quite clear that he will be attempting to reclaim the world record.
“I know that I can run in the 9.6s,” the statement quoted Powell as saying.
Possible clashes?
Powell also hinted of possible clashes with Bolt, the first of which will be at National Championships, which will be run at the National Stadium from June 27-29.
“It will be a very exciting summer,” he said.
Bolt, in the meantime, downplayed impending match-ups with his fellow Jamaican superstar.
“I don’t think it will be a showdown,” he said of their possible face-off at trials. “I just think Asafa and I will just be going out there to make the team to Beijing. I don’t think we’re going out there to prove anything, that’s how I will be looking at it I don’t know how Asafa will be looking at it,” said Bolt.
Pertaining to their meetings on the grand prix circuit, Bolt said: “Right now, I am not really putting that on my mind, I am just trying to work on my 200m because I did a lot of 100m training, so it’s really time to focus on my 200m,” he added.
I can’t wait for this race. I almost have a feeling it will be closer at the trials than the OG. Although the extra races leading upto the OG may work in Powell’s favour. Close to call I think.
Does anyone have the splits for the race?
TNT
PJ was looking for clear video to work from.
A couple to look at:
http://search.live.com/video/results.aspx?q=Bolt+9.72&scope=video&docid=2110399971914&FORM=TVVP6
http://search.live.com/video/results.aspx?q=Bolt+9.72&scope=video&docid=2110670898000&FORM=TVVP7
The first of these does have some marks on the track that you can make out.
That first one is not from the 9.72 race though.