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watch Gay - no chance of winning unless its a 130m race
I do not think Gay would have caught him even after 150m. Check Bolt out after 100m. They guy continued to power away over next, what…mmm 200m 
CF mod. team/mod squad - Can we post Youtube videos in their proper format? There are some discussion boards that allow members to post Youtube/Google videos instead just posting the links. I think there is a function that needs to be enabled on Admin. CP. This feature would save lot of time. Thanks.
If I am not wrong (that was a bit too fast even for slo-mo) he needed 41-42 strides again.
Tamfb,
Are you teasing me now
How do you do that? I have tried by copying the code without <object> bits but it did not work.
Pleeeeaseee
LOL or better yet… Remember Shawn Craword talking about 18.99
Say hello to Mr sub19 :eek:
sigh…obivously he could break 10 for some time now…he just a needed race practice…
Thanks John. I was not aware of Rupert’s msg. It is easier then posting it at some other discussion boards. Great job!
By Dick Patrick, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — The world’s fastest man is a novice in the 100 meters. The event isn’t even the favorite of Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, who prefers the 200. And his coach thinks he has the most potential in the 400.
A teen prodigy nicknamed “Lightning” and a world-class performer at 18, Bolt, 21, is starting to deliver on his promise. He set the world record in the 100 Saturday night in the Reebok Grand Prix, after a rain delay and on a wet track at Randall’s Island, with a time of 9.72 seconds, breaking the 9.74 mark of countryman Asafa Powell.
The performance instantly turned Bolt into the favorite for the 100, the glamour event of the sprints, at the Beijing Olympics in August. Bolt vaulted past the previous two protagonists, Powell, who is recovering from shoulder injury, and American Tyson Gay, who won the 100 and 200 in the 2007 world championships and finished second (9.85) Saturday.
NOTES: Bolt not charged up about 100 feat
VIDEO: Watch Bolt break the world record
“Some people will say he threw a monkey wrench into things,” Gay said. “It’s great for the sport.”
Bolt was known as a 200 specialist, finishing second to Gay in the worlds last year. As a pro, he has run five 100s, four this year. His coach, Glen Mills, wanted Bolt to pick up the 400. “I hate the training for the 400,” Bolt said.
Bolt, who shocked the track world May 3 with a 9.76, is 6-5 and considered too tall for a great 100 runner. He got out of the starting blocks just ahead of Gay and then took 41½ strides to 5-11 Gay’s 45, according to Cedric Walker, a U.S. sprint coach.
“He’s going to run 9.6, there’s no question in my mind,” says NBC analyst Ato Boldon, an Olympic medalist in the 100 and 200. “He’s 21; he’s going to get stronger; he’ll get better competition; he’ll learn the event. He’s a phenomenal talent.”
Boldon thinks Bolt, scheduled to run a 200 June 12 in the Czech Republic, could scare Michael Johnson’s world records in the 200 (19.32) and 400 (43.18), predicting Bolt could run 19.4 this season. When Boldon watches Bolt, he is reminded of Tommie Smith, a 6-3 sprinter who won the 1968 Olympic 200 but is better known for his ensuing protest.
"Tommie Smith’s the only other guy who could potentially challenge the 100, 200 and 400 records at the same time," Boldon says.
Athletics-Jamaica showdown looms for Bolt and Powell
Mon Jun 2, 2008 1:53am EDT
By Gene Cherry
RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 2 (Reuters) - The two fastest 100 metres sprinters of all-time could race in Jamaica later this month.
New 100 metres world record holder Usain Bolt will run both the 100 and 200 at the June 27-29 Jamaican Olympic trials in Kingston, his coach said on Sunday.
Among his rivals in the 100 is scheduled to be compatriot Asafa Powell, the world record holder until Bolt clocked 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York on Saturday.
The meeting could be the year’s most anticipated 100 metres before the Beijing Olympics in August, although Powell and American world champion Tyson Gay are also due to race in July in London.
[b]Powell and Bolt have run the seven fastest times ever recognised in the event.
Powell has recorded five of them, including the former world record of 9.74 seconds, and the 21-year-old Bolt two but they have never raced over 100 metres.[/b]
The lanky Bolt has run times of 9.76, 9.92 and 9.72 seconds within the last month.
“I’ll be doubling now (in the Olympics), definitely,” Bolt told Reuters in New York after setting the world record.
But his coach Glen Mills said nothing had been finalised.
“It is not really his decision to make,” the veteran coach told Reuters via telephone from Kingston. “If he wants to, maybe that’s his way of telling me.”
Mills, who for years had tried to push Bolt towards the 400 metres as his second event, acknowledged that the sprinter would run both the 100 and 200 metres at the Jamaican trials.
“He is going to double in the trials because if he doesn’t, he would be forcing himself to make a decision this month about the Olympics,” Mills said.
A 200 metres race in Ostrava, Czech Republic on June 12 will be Bolt’s only run over the longer distance before the trials, his agent Ricky Simms said.
“It is not really his decision to make,” the veteran coach told Reuters via telephone from Kingston. “If he wants to, maybe that’s his way of telling me.”
lol…that made me laugh
You can see why athletes leave their coach.
No kidding. Is Mills out of his mind?
Probably a control freak like I hear S. Francis is.
Sometimes the coach knows best, for example in American football if one of your athletes is injured you don’t let him make the total decision to come back bc most times it will be too early the coaches and trainers should assist. You can’t argue with the results so I guess there coaching styles aren’t that bad.
True, but it’s ludicrous for the WR of the 100m not to race the 100m in the Olympics.
Take everything with a grain of salt that coaches say to the media esp during these times of the yr. Also before these two very fast 100m races Bolt probably wasnt going to run the 100m at the ol.
not the 100m or not the double?
This 9.72 looks unbelievably swift…as if the video is being played in Fast Forward!
It reminds me of a journalist in Seoul who recounted years later that Ben looked so fast, he thought his arms and legs would come flying off!