Bolt - 9.76s!

[Muadib]

relevance ?

[Muadib]

Figget dat.. get on the horn to Coach Mills and explain to him the illusion..

"I am going back to the drawing board and try to perfect the race better than I did tonight," he said, while adding that it's always an honour to have a world record.

Flashing a broad smile, Mills said the fact that Bolt appeared to ease up just before crossing the line stunned him even more.

"I expected him to run about 9.80 but what surprised me was that he appeared to have eased up in the last part, so when I heard the time ... It's fantastic.

No coach, dat is just "excellent sprinting"

Wha Mills history in T&F anyway ?

LOL !!

Ah tell yuh wi have some rocket scientists pon di site involved in Profundity 101..

Dem need to tek K I S S 101... Keep It Simple Stupid..

"..Excellent Sprinting.."

HA HA !

[Mosiah]

Karl? Is this Karl or Maudib?

What was that diatribe about? What point are you trying to make?! I didn't read the crap, but I suppose you are trying to prove that Bolt did not go flat out in that race and could have broken the record, right? Well, maybe you're right.

And what?

Asafa didn't go flat out when he set the record, so where does that leave us?

[Muadib]

How Asafa finishing come into dis ?

You and Karl have a comedy routing going on about Bolt not easing up on Saturday.

I am just sitting back enjoying the spectacle as you 'experts' explain the 'illusion'

"I don't think he eased up. It's been a while since Bolt has done his usual looking around and up at the stands before he finished his races. To me, he looked like he ran strong right thru the "tape".

"Damn!
Mosiah is correct; he ran hard through the tape. He looked to his left after crossing the finish line."

"What is your history in T&F again?"

Man dem all a bring in History !

By the time unnuh dun wid wi Bolt actually came second....

LOL !

[Karl]

How Asafa finishing come into dis ?

You and Karl have a comedy routing going on about Bolt not easing up on Saturday.

I am just sitting back enjoying the spectacle as you 'experts' explain the 'illusion'

"I don't think he eased up. It's been a while since Bolt has done his usual looking around and up at the stands before he finished his races. To me, he looked like he ran strong right thru the "tape".

"Damn!
Mosiah is correct; he ran hard through the tape. He looked to his left after crossing the finish line."

"What is your history in T&F again?"

Man dem all a bring in History !

By the time unnuh dun wid wi Bolt actually came second....

LOL !

What is your history of T&F? Have you ever run in any type of competitive race?

Do you know the difference between "running hard through the tape with loss of form" and "running hard through 'the tape' keeping form in a relaxed manner - which incidentally allows for slower rate of de-acceleration"?

Bolt's form was that of runner at "full blast" going through "the tape"! That he looked to one side immediately after going by the finish line would not impact on his effort.

...now 'the time' is another issue?

[Muadib]

Forward all your elucidations to Coach Mills...

Heh, heh.

[Karl]

Forward all your elucidations to Coach Mills...

Heh, heh.

I was not saying it was a perfect race! ...I am saying I did not see that 'easing up'!

As to Glen's words - Coach's are usually overly optimistic on outlook of the 'star athlete'.

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Did Glen make any comment on Bolt's leg during the World Championship? Poor start on his leg? - Moved off late and moved off slow! Moving the baton to his 'wrong hand'?! Slowing during the set-up and delivery phase of his hand-off! ...and...Handing off across his body? etc?

Never saw any comment by Glen on those? Could it be a subconscious bias towards his athlete?

*Oooh Glen is an acquaintance. So I am not knocking Glen...I am saying it is understandable that Glen saw the race the way he did. Give him a few more 'looks' at the video? ...pleeeease?

[Mosiah]

Yuh have time!

[Muadib]

Hmm is it possible that you simply are wrong and me an coachie are right ?

Heh, heh.

Bolt appeared to have eased up because.. umm.. well because HE DID !

Read up on Occams Razor principle.

[Muadib]

Yuh tink is you one can bowl spin.. allow di man to complete his elaborate routine...

Let me know when you two start your "The World is actually flat" lectures.

Heh, heh.

[No Mercy]

Them did not expose Bolt at world championship say him too

young.. That was suppose to be is experienced against the best. The man too lazy fi nuh want train ..just like Powell...a the tivoli duppy a pull them..

[Mosiah]

OKay, I giv...I admit. Bolt eased up and would have shattered Asafa's record were it not for the last 3 yards when he didn't pump his arms.

Sorry for misleading the forumites!

[Muadib]

Nah man is di 6 Million Dollah Man effect.. yuh nuh si how Steve Austin appear to move in slow motion when him actually gone into bionic mode.

Everyting in sync....

[Karl]

'I didn't know I was going that fast' - Admits Bolt after rocketing to No. 2 on all-time 100m list with 9.76
published: Monday | May 5, 2008


Elton Tucker, Assistant Editor - Sport


Usain Bolt speaks to reporters after running an astonishing 9.76 seconds to win the men's 100m at the Jamaicaa International Invitational Track Meet at the National Stadium on Saturday night. Ian Allen/Staff Photographer


USAIN Bolt rocketed to number two on the all-time 100 metres list when he produced a fantastic 9.76 seconds run on Saturday night to blow away his rivals in the men's 100 metres, and stun more than 12,000 spectators who turned up at the National Stadium for the fifth running of the Jamaica International Invitational meet.

Many were awestruck by the acceleration from the tall, far-striding Bolt from 50 metres out. Then, with the crowd giving him a standing ovation, he took a victory lap around the stadium.

American Darvis Patton was a distant second in 10.08, with Antigua and Barbuda's Daniel Bailey third in 10.12. Wallace Spearmon, the American who was expected to be Bolt's main rival, was never in the race and placed fifth in 10.13.

Bolt's time, run with a following wind of 1.8 metres per second (mps), just below the legal limit of 2.0 mps, placed him just below Asafa Powell, who holds the world record 9.74 set in Rieti, Italy, on September 9 last year.

Powell, however, lost two records to Bolt. Saturday's time beat the meet and Stadium record 9.84 Powell clocked in winning the event at the 2005 renewal.

Unbelievable
The 21-year-old Bolt and his coach Glen Mills were just as surprised as everyone else about the final time. Bolt's personal best going into the Saturday's event was a modest 10.03.

"I knew that I was coming here to do under 10 seconds as my training was going pretty well," Bolt said.

"During the race, I really did not know I was going that fast. I was looking at 9.80 or 9.85," said Bolt, who added that he had no lofty expectations going into the meet but was "... just coming here and looking forward to going under 10 seconds flat."

He was unsure whether he can break Powell's world record.

"I don't know ... the night was just right, everything was just perfect, so you never know, this might just be one good race, but I am hoping it's not.

Always an honour
"I am going back to the drawing board and try to perfect the race better than I did tonight," he said, while adding that it's always an honour to have a world record.

Flashing a broad smile, Mills said the fact that Bolt appeared to ease up just before crossing the line stunned him even more.

"I expected him to run about 9.80 but what surprised me was that he appeared to have eased up in the last part, so when I heard the time ... It's fantastic.

"In training he was showing me that he was going to run a fast time. I had him at low 9.80s but I guess with the adrenaline and so forth ..."

World double sprint champion, American Tyson Gay, who won Saturday's 200m in 20.00, also had high praise for Bolt, the man he beat to win gold in the half-lap event in Osaka last year.

"Bolt is very talented and that 100m was amazing," Gay said after completing his event.

Mills, a legendary local sprint coach whose most famous charge before this was many-time world and Olympic 100m finalist Raymond Stewart, said Bolt is scheduled to run "two more 100m races and a 200m" before next month's National Championships.

Bolt will run the 100m at the Hampton Games in Trinidad and Tobago, on May 17, and at the Reebok meet in New York on May 31. He will then compete in the 200m at the Golden Spike Grand Prix in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on June 12.

[TDowl]

Interesting that you said Bolt's 9.76 is a 'illusion', check this statement by someone from Sprintzone on the Carib forum "And if you watch the race no one in that race had any semblance of turnover !!! Yes, Bolt is tall and so there will be somewhat of an "optical illusion" to his races … But go and look at Asafa's runs - even his 9.8's - and there is much greater rapidity of turnover … I use Asafa because I've read that he is 6'3" so there should be some similarity … But look at the guys trailing him and they are not running with 10.0/10.1 rapidity either' Man seh Optical illusion, he is still in shock.