The Athletics Thread (... but predominantly about Bolt)

[RichC]

I see Blake is out of the championships with a Hamstring injury.

I imagine there will be quite a few people asking questions what with the timing of the injury, most likely bad luck but no doubt speculation will mount.

[Tee]

Anyone see that British 100m sprinter clock 9.91 over the weekend. Never heard of the guy before and suddenly out of nowhere, 9.91 seconds. Hmmmmm.......

[Pablo]

Yes saw that, the only people who've ran faster this year are Gay and Powell, both of whom have just failed tests. Even if the poor guy is legal, no ones going to believe him

[ChesterDave]

He ran at the Olympics. Has been getting faster for last few seasons
ttp://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=22721

[Tee]

He ran at the Olympics. Has been getting faster for last few seasons
ttp://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=22721

But not THAT quick!

[Pablo]

He's been hovering around the 10.10 mark since 2009, then this year all of a sudden 4 PBs and then he runs sub-10 seconds. Suspicious, very suspicious.

[Tee]

He's been hovering around the 10.10 mark since 2009, the all of a sudden 4 PBS and sub 10 seconds. Suspicious, very suspicious.

Don't even remember him at the Olympics (where the best GB sprinter was Adam Gemili). All just seems too dodgy.

[ChesterDave]

10.05 into a wind of 1.3 m/s then 9.91 with a tail wind of 1.1. Its not a massive difference. Ran 10.13 relatively flat wind at Olympics dont see it as a huge leap myself

[Pablo]

From one season to another it's a pretty huge leap IMO. From 7th in a semi-final of the Olympics, to fastest legal time in the world this year. He's improved by two tenths of a second in a year. If he did that each year he'd break the world record in a couple of years

I'm not saying he's definitely cheating, far from it. However, it does stand out as exceptional progress, and under these circumstances, sadly nowadays, that's suspicious.

[captainfog]

Not really, he's been tipped to become a potential medal contender for a while, so people have obviously seen potential in him. GB athletics is pretty clean IMO.

[ChesterDave]

He ran 10.09 4 years ago. He seems to have always had it in him. Obviously something has clicked

[Pablo]

Apparently he's now finally free of injuries so it could just be that. I really hope so anyway Dave. Maybe I'm just too cynical

[paulg]

Also he's only young. As we see with footballers all the time, the changes in physique when growing from teens into 20s are quite dramatic.

Unless you're Aquilani.

[Neil Young]

I'm not so I've seen it too.

[Shaggy]

Bolt running the 100m on BBC1 at 9:48pm v Carter and that new British kid (who is 25 ) amongst others.