notice how high Christie is in the set position, clearly higher than anyone else. This leads to him getting upright into his stride very early… and then plays catch up on mitchell who must think he has it won at half way!
Also, only a year after that famous 100m in Tokyo. With Lewis and Burrell essentially out of the picture, it left the door open for mitchell, christie and fredericks to take the gold. They finished 3rd, 4th and 5th in Tokyo (Mitchell 9.91, Christie 9.92, Fredericks 9.95).
los leroy burrell was robbed in the 92 games,look at the false start!!
he ran under 10 in his semi and looked good,the guy was robbed of gold.look at his disbelief when he was accused.he was in form and so was mark witherspoon,very unfortunate for spoon(never recovered properly and a great guy!)
***compare his mechanics from 92 to 95,alot smoother and less strain on his body especially the h/s
He won in good style (Incidentally over Linford!!! Who, as we know, went on to become the 1992 OG Men’s 100m Champ)
running 9.97s to Linford’s 10.00s.
Into a -1.3m/s headwind!
I saw a program 2-3 years ago about Linford’s thoughts when he was on the start-line after the false-start.
And Linford explains that he deliberately ‘shook’ on the line, to make Leroy nervous, thsu of course causing him to panick,and committ a fals-start.
Linford explained that after that he smiled, and knew that Leroy would be catious, and would be forced to ‘sleep in the blocks’.
This happened (of course), and Linford’s plan worked, causing Leroy to sleep and ‘only’ run 10.10s to finish in 5th place.
mizuno had massive breakthroughts in 91 with lewis,fredericks,mitchell,adeniken etc all wearing there shoes.in 92 fredericks,mitchell,stewart,adeniken etc wore mizunos again which were paid good money to do so.its all down to money…if the moneys right athletes will wear