Well stated,RB34.
I did watch the race, but I had a look at the youtube video.
It appears to be staged. Maybe I am wrong, but also the reaction after it, immediately taking off the shirt, I don’t know, it does not seem natural. And this was not an anticipation, it was 30 minutes before.
Why Bolt needed to react like Christie or Drummond? He knew exactly that he FS and he would have looked like an idiot if he tried to complain with officials. If it was staged why he didn’t decide just to make slight move like Chambers did after command “set”? It would look more convincing for people who think it was staged.
Because there is the risk that one won’t get disqualified for that. It would be bad if the rest of the field is off and he’s stuck in the blocks. A disqualification (especially thanks to the reaction that has followed) makes it look as if Bolt could have won with a world record if ‘they’ had let him run. Him twitching and being left in the blocks with no false start just makes him look bad as an athlete and it is more difficult to explain to the masses.
Maybe he didn’t bother arguing and complaining with the officials because he is Bolt and therefore, like we saw in New York with Felix, could have gotten away with a green card and then what would he do if indeed he didn’t want to run for whatever reason. If we are to believe that this is staged then he only got one shot at it and the safest and most plausible way was to start normally albeit well well before the gun has gone off.
Reading earlier posts, I do see how this is a good way for Blake to win without Bolt losing.
Agreed! He acted like anyone who screwed up would have acted.
there was really no point in running this race for him.
no asafa, no tyson, and so on and so forth.
a world record probably wasn’t coming because most of the races had headwinds. plus he has had a mediocre year leading up to the WC.
great opportunity to protest against the new rule, plus like someone said, maybe there was some sports betting behind the scenes, that could really benefit the racers track club.
that’s my take on it.
You guys are amazing.
What happened was going to happen eventually once that stupid No False Start rule went down.
I hope that this regrettable episode can get that rule killed in time for London.
From Tyson’s twitter:
the wink was for kim collins caus people seem to call him old but his legs look young to me
Very happy for Kim.
RB34, it’s perfectly reasonable. Now, the speculations going on now in this thread are sometimes out of this world and I don’t care about why etc., but I looked another time at the run and I think Usain is a bad actor. I know everyone at the end of the run thanks god, partners, children, everyone wants to end war and poverty and so we don’t know why everyone is still going on, but believing that it is pretty naive. Points: he started half an hour earlier (if you are not good at staging things you do something like that), he took off the shirt after 1 seconds (first thing you think about, no?), the look on his face, the pic of one of the other finalist next to him smiling one sec after the bad start. Bad actors when they want to act are just bad. So, I’m with N2.
It’s of course unnecessary to write that maybe I’m totally wrong.
Brings back memories of when I coached Little Aths, everytime one of the kids won by a decent margin something was amiss.
Start running when the gun goes, pretty simple. If you don’t you’re not reacting to the gun, your anticipating and you should be kicked out IMO.
Bolt also false started in the semis of the 2009 WC, but the new rule didn’t apply back then. Same scenario as this time: He was working on hist start which had not been that good all season, anticipated the gun and false started. The only difference was that he wasn’t DQ’ed back then and we got to see him run 9.58 in the final.
I went to the youtube videos and timed the starter and Bolt. For the starter, I have 1.69 after set for the semi and 1.68 for the final. Very consistent, which allows one to guess the gun. For Bolt in the final I saw movement at 1.56. On careful analysis, it looks like he was trying to time the starter, and just barely missed it.
Maybe he “blew his wad in the prelims” as Charlie once said about Asafa and really didn’t have it. So if you guess right, great; Otherwise FS gives a excuse rather than a loss to Blake? The loss in appearance money for losing could have been sizeable.
Truly a disappointing spectacle, but such is track and life. Sometimes things go right sometimes they don’t. It’s just weird how we get these gaps like in 2003, and now again. What a boring final.
Haha, Asafa must now be crying that he got “injured” (he’s only injured in the head IMO) when he shit his pants yet again before a major competition.
Overall I’m just sick of everybody avoiding everybody during the season, it’s a sad show sprinting has become.
I agree, it’s sad to see Bolt can’t be a champion losing too, not good for the sport at all. His antics after the DQ were really immature. Grow up Usain.
This rule has now been in effect at the highest level for well over 3 years. It was relatively smooth sailing for the first few years and now we have had one of the first big casualties.
The rule is fine. Maybe we need to be thinking isn’t this great that another competitor had Bolt thinking he needed to get out fast.
It simply shows that you can’t just turn up to a major with doubts. It has happen to a number of athletes already Obuguru, Hooker and now Bolt. Maybe this is just the kick of the butt these athletes required…so rather than harping on Bolt what about yohan’s 9.93 into that wind!!! Now thats impressive. Turn that wind around and we may have been looking at 9.6s!
Now that indicates just what shape he turned up in!!
agreed
Maybe he reacted to a gun being fired on a grassy knoll?
I, too, was impressed with that time run into that strong of a headwind. Many fans only see the time but when you consider the conditions, that’s an excellent performance.
The new rule was applied in January 2010. This is the first major championships (unless you want to count Commonwealth Games) at which the new rule was applied, and after two days of competition three high-profile athletes have already been DQ’ed.
He knew he had to beat yohon out the blocks…