Stephen Francis in Sydney

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@pierrejean

The higher number of 100m competitions for Asafa should weight on the balance regarding the MaxV work done. Asafa has hit 0.83 on several occasions, one was done by IAAF during the WAF in 2008, 9.87 wind +0.4 and cold weather 14°. By contrast, 9.69 was done with 28° temp (data from official results). I’m not sure MaxV is Asafa’s problem. Actually Asafa wasn’t himself in Beijing final and lost to Bolt from the start. In Stockholm, they seem pretty even in the middle of the race, Bolt catching Asafa in the last 20m. As for Bruxelles, it seems that Bolt had a better top speed but i can’t say for sure because i wasn’t filming the race.

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