usain bolt DQed.... agree with me this was the worst 100 finals since 2003

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@robin1

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.