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He called the Shelly Ann Frazier victory from about a month ago.
He didn't back away from it.
Good eye Willi.
He didn't back away from it.
Good eye Willi.
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- Don't let negative things break you, instead let it be your strength, your reason for growth. Life is for living and I won't spend my life feeling cheated and downtrodden.
- Don't let negative things break you, instead let it be your strength, your reason for growth. Life is for living and I won't spend my life feeling cheated and downtrodden.
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Yes he did.
Good call."It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass -
But he also swore for Asafa. Sorry, Willi.
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The same type of thinking that created a problem cannot be used to solve the problem.Comment
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I know. I had suppported Asafa too, but eventually it became a sentimental support. Bolt was looking too awesome.
Credit must still be given to Willi for making the call with Fraser. She is an unknown and for that reason Willi really went out on a limb with that call!
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Yeah, the safa call was pure sentiment. it started with Logic, but as Bolt developed...
Indeed I made a post 2 days before the event that my heart said asafa andd my head said Bolt.
I was in contact with Ato and he was watching Asafa up till a month ago and Afater Stockholm, it was BOLT all the way for him. He said that Bolt would run down Asafa, no matter the lead.
Sadly, it never even came to that.
I am sentimental to Asafa, as he singlehandely revived male 100m running in Jamaica! Hoever, he has to go back and deal with is anxiety disorder.
Imagine losing to Dix and RT??? Asafa has lost a total of 5 races in 5 years! He has 8 sub 10s this year so far...and still none of that helped him to medal. It wont help if he goes out and run a WR in 2 weeks either...however a realy gold and WR can heal the pain.Comment
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thats exactly my street diagnosis... asafa has anxiety disorder... its to his credit that he even showed up at the starting line...
admittedly, like many my call for asafa was based on sentiment... i WANTED him to win so badly... i felt his pain... everybody needs redemption...
however, i saw the sweep... said it on the track site... might have here too... just thought it would be the same order as the ja trials...
big up all the jamaican athletes, including asafa...'to get what we've never had, we MUST do what we've never done'Comment
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I fully agree with you, Willi. However, time is running out on Asafa, and with each passing year it's going to get more and more difficult to win a gold medal. After seeing Bolt's performance in the finals in Beijing, it's hard to even imagine that Asafa will beat a healthy Bolt next year at the IAAF World Championships! And God only knows which new young gun will also turn up somewhere by next year!Originally posted by Willi View Post
As I suggested earlier this year in a post on the Caribbean Track and Field Forum, history will most likely prove that the false start in the 100-meter finals in Paris back in 2003 was the worst disaster in Asafa's life! (Of course, I used different words in that post.) That was the year that the then unknown Asafa should have won the World Championships gold, and looking at Kim Collins' winning time, Asafa would certainly have won!!!
Maybe it's his fate.....Comment
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don't look at the time.....asafa has yet to run a good time when it matters when the time would have been enough.
i agree about '03...isn't that when drummond behaved like the a$$ he is by laying down on the track and refusing to leave?
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas PaineComment
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Same race! Jon Drummond, an excellent athlete, made a fool of himself that day, just like Linford Christie did at the 1996 Olympic Games!Originally posted by Gamma View PostComment
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