Mens 60, heats:
http://folk.uio.no/perel/Heat1Lievin.mpg
http://folk.uio.no/perel/Heat2Lievin.mpg
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Final to follow.
Hey thor, thanks for the clips, I never thought i would see it.What’s going on with mo greene?
Mo is looking good. We’ll see what happens when another 40m is added on. I think Mo will surprise us.
I saw Mo in the prev race (thanks again to Thor!) and I thought he just looked a bit like he needed a couple of races. It will be interesting.
60 metres:
- Leonard Scott (U.S.) 6.46
- Maurice Greene (U.S.) 6.55
- Ronald Pognon (France) 6.56
I don’t know - but SCOTT looked good.
Impressive was how Pognon almost cought Mo at 60 after a terrible start. Pognons 40-60 was the fastest by far. So would would happen with 40m added? I’d expect Pognon would pass Mo by far.
But I’m sure Mo will do his homework and improve til Outdoor season - but just talking about indoor - it’s one of his worst seasons ever (by his standards of course).
I was watching these 3 fantastic races when something very interesting came to my attention…If u look at the 2nd heat, the clock in the corner has started before the guys have even moved!! Its started at 0"3! To see this yourself, let the race run as normal, then when its finished, leave it in the unplayed position. Then you’ll see all 6 sprinters motion less and the clock in 0"3 status! Does this mean that the time clocked in this race was actually faster that the 6.55 that Scott clocked?? :rolleyes:
The clock on the screen is not always syncronized with the pictures you watch on TV screen, and is independant from the photofinish time.
As for Maurice, immediately after the race he didn’t stop to say that he was here for the show and wasn’t concerned at all by the time. Obviously he has some pride, but he knows that he is not preparing indoors races as much as Pognon does, for example.
Pognon was so scared. It was his most important race of the season. He could have won the race with more experience. He also discovers the difficult thing to run under fans and media pressure. Here again he needs experience.
Pognon should still feel good about the way he recovered and charged back at these guys!
Indeed, but the problem is actually off the track. He was absolutely not prepared to all the media fuss in a country such as France who has never seen a sprinter under 10sec. Also, before the start of the indoor season, his goal was to break the National 60m record of 6.53. Now he is 4th on all-time list and European Record Holder with 6.45, 0.06 off the World Record and his coach (and myself!) thinks he can break it as it is not as the level Mo could have put it. After the Liévin race, Ronald was deceived to lose tho occasion to beat the US boys including Mo, and vexed because he has said since he knew Mo was running that Liévin was his main competition of the indoor season. After the race, Ronald was like a mute, he sat on the small room looking on the floor, while a dozen of journalist were circling him. His coach tried to spoke to Ronald but the boy didn’t heard him, so the coach saw he couldn’t be reached behind the journalist wall and went away… That’s the way it is now at each competitions and things won’t get better until Ronald gets experience. His lack of self confidence is also shown by the fact he imitates Mo’s behaviour before the start of the races, rolling shoulders and walking backward and forward like a … errr … US sprinter!
LOL - I don’t know, but it looks like most of “us Europeans” have the same feeling watching certain behavior 