powell looks very top heavy again, cut, but heavy
Im tired of Powell and his excuses. He cant step up to the plate when it matters.
and the Reebok Classic in May is when it matters? 
Has anyone ever seen him get left in the blocks like that before?
nope but I agree with los when I look at the video again.
Powell seems heavy. Cut, but heavy.
Yea asafa looked huge to me also. His start looked different and he didnthave his usual long drive phase. He just looked out of wack. who knows but one meet does tell us the whole season. Also did u notice his training partner in the back getting blown up with him?
There are strong indications that the entire group is having problems.
Charlie, what sort of times would you expect Carter & Frater to be running if they were on pace to peak around 9.98/10.00 in Berlin? Or, does anyone know what they were running last year at the end of May?
Well, they are going to need to go that fast to make their team. Usain and Powell are for the most part locks in making the Jamaican team, but Blake has a faster SB than either of them, so they are going to need 9.98-10.0 shape to have a chance of making the team.
I just know there are a lot of injuries in the group and times have been hard to come by so far. NY is fast- we know that for sure and a WA 10.10 might be 10.30 or so in normal conditions. Sometimes there’s a let-down after the OGs but as often people open up fast because they overtrained in the Oly year and when they go a bit easier in training, they fly.
I just wonder because this is so widespread throughout MVP this year.
Yeah, no clue what that could be related to…
Other then the injuries sustained during the course of the year, from previous news stories in seemed like the MVP group put a greater emphasis on getting in shape to run early season 400m’s. Could this be effecting his 100m prep.
That might be possible.
yeah, trying to keep up with what Usains camp is doing??
He looked like he could have run 200m in that race. Plenty of 400m endurance, but lack of top speed and top speed endurance - 100m endurance and 400m endurance are not the same thing. Unless is there talk of Asafa and others in his group planning for some 200’s this yr?
Or maybe they just Ate the same crapy food leading into the meet and are flat as a result. ie, the whole team eats out at a food joint all to succumb to a gut bug…
I thought that the rumor was that Usain’s camp was leaching secrets from MVP? I’ve even heard some people comment that Usain (from his 150m) is copying Asafa’s style. What a soap opera!
Except in the post race interviews, they all said they felt fine, just didn’t run fast…
Bolt looked nothing like asafa in that race to me.
Didn’t say I thought he did, just relaying what some people on another board had said. Something to the effect of reducing backside mechanics.
anyone notice how bunched up michael frater’s blocks are in lane 8? you can see it around the 8 second mark. seems like he pops up really early because of that too.
I wonder if they are trying to peak late this year. In that japanese video that was floating around they had Asafa in trainers doing a very bunched start. I thought this was done during early training?
Or maybe they they are just sucking this year…