Usain Bolt destroys!
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(Has to be) the greatest sprinter of all time(!)
So I guess the Olympic thread with no spoilers wasn't good enough?
So much for the DVR.
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Said the same thing in another thread. Nobody's close to him, even with him not being in top form. If he stays healthy, there's no reason he can't sweep all 3 golds for a 4th straight Olympics. My favorite athlete in the world to watch - he just seems to glide, effortlessly with those long strides and then he hits that extra gear which nobody else has and he just explodes to the finish. Awesome.
He said this is his last Olympics. Maybe he changes his mind, maybe he wants his last impression to be of complete domination and not the greatest of all time trying to hold on?
What is interesting is in Bolt's first heat in Rio was former NFL running Back Jahvid Best who was one of the fastest NFL players and he got absolutely torched by Bolt who was basically jogging to the finish line. Best looked fast in NFL games but not so fast in the olympics.
Yeah and if you put pads on bolt and gave him a football he would get destroyed.
Did he have to prove anything once you break a world record?
Though he is saying he is quitting, I think he will come back in 2020. I think he wants someone to beat him on the big stage. Until that happens, I don't see him quitting.
I think he can remain at the top into his late 30s.
Though he is saying he is quitting, I think he will come back in 2020. I think he wants someone to beat him on the big stage. Until that happens, I don't see him quitting.
I think he can remain at the top into his late 30s.
I agree that he'll at least come back in 2020, if he's healthy, as nobody has even challenged him in years and there's no reason to think he'll fall off that dramatically in 4 years (again, if he's healthy). And there's the appeal of history, possibly winning golds in 3 events in 4 straight Olympics.
Great article in last Sunday's NY Times Sunday Review section by Orlando Patterson explaining why Jamaica is so great in track and field. He claims that the #1 reason is something called CHAMPS.....the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association Boys and Girls Athletics Championship.....an annual competition that draws 30,000 fans and is the biggest thing in sports in Jamaica. Obviously, this stuff is big on The Island, Mon.
RE: track stars in Jamaica
Reminds me of stuff I read in The Talent Code.
This New York Times article sums it up nicely.
Reminds me of stuff I read in The Talent Code.
This New York Times article sums it up nicely.
That's where the hundreths of a second are lost. That and not going all out through the finish line.
I get a kick out of how much he just seems to enjoy himself. I guess it's easy when you're so much better than anyone else.
"Run to 10yds past the finish line!"
"Don't turn your head, you know those guys are there and still coming!"
"Don't clench your fists!"
"Move your arms!"
After being coached by a guy who was a football and track teammate of Milt Campbell at Plainfield High, I still cringe when I see some of these world class sprinters. Some of the women runners were leaning yards from where the finish line was on the track. That will only cost you time. The idea is to snap forward on the stride at the tape, not before. Anything you do that contorts your sprinting motion will lose time. Many years after we were told in the mid 60"s to keep our heads down in the starting blocks, I would see people on TV looking up. My coach would ask us: "What are you looking at ?". Even if you are running the hurdles, you know you are going over on the eighth step. So why contort your body ? The bad habits accrued by people with world class speed get magnified when competing in races where everyone is fast. One failure in form could lose the race.
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There are different bio-mechanical "phases" to Olympic-level sprinting.
Here's a fantastic article that explains it quite well.
You don't have to read the whole thing -- you can just scroll down to the graphs that look like this if you want:
Amazing all the science that goes into a 10s sprint...
Guy's fun to watch - only athlete I want to win even when he's going against an American.
