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Yohan Blake set the world alight on Friday night when he ran a world leading 9.75seconds to win the 100 metres at the National Championships being held to help select Jamaica’s team to the Olympic Games this summer. Blake beat reigning Olympic champion Usain Bolt by more than a tenth of second and in doing so validated his win in Daegu last year, set a new stadium record and threw his hat into the ring as a serious contender for the Olympic 100 metres title.
Following the race you could feel the weight lift of the Bolt bandwagon and shift over to Blake’s. From a national perspective it is wonderful to have four men from Jamaica who have run under 9.80 seconds but don’t feel like Bolt’s reign as the fastest man in history is about to end anytime soon.
From the days when he was St. Jago High everybody knew that Yohan Blake was a special talent. It was during that time that he set a national junior record of 10.11 that still stands. Over the past three years Blake has trained with arguably the best sprint coach in the world, Glen Mills. Mills, who guided a teenage schoolboy to the Olympic finals in 1984 and one Usain Bolt to gold in the sprint double in Beijing and then to world titles in Berlin and Daegu, knows a thing or two about creating great sprinters.
Blake has watched Bolt become a global superstar knowing his time would come soon enough. That day arrived in August last year at the World Championships in South Korea when following Bolt’s false start, Blake grabbed the opportunity with both hands. As world champion Blake has yet to lose and when he took the national title on Friday night, the man he dethroned just happened to be the man he looked up to for the last three years.
However, Bolt is quite done yet. What people fail to realize is that Bolt, who has been struggling with his start for the past couple years, basically stood up in the blocks and then chased down a 9.7 sprinter. How many men in the world could have done that? Once Bolt gets his start back on track he will be back to being the fastest man who ever lived. Blake is fast now, only three men have ever run faster – Bolt, Gay, Powell but until Blake gets below 9.58
Bolt still holds the crown as the fastest man who ever lived. Once he gets his start back in working order he will be as hard. Yes, the pack may have come a little closer in the past two years, but everyone knows that once Bolt is ready he is still the one and only king.
Source:http://gleanerblogs.com/sports/?p=1340
Following the race you could feel the weight lift of the Bolt bandwagon and shift over to Blake’s. From a national perspective it is wonderful to have four men from Jamaica who have run under 9.80 seconds but don’t feel like Bolt’s reign as the fastest man in history is about to end anytime soon.
From the days when he was St. Jago High everybody knew that Yohan Blake was a special talent. It was during that time that he set a national junior record of 10.11 that still stands. Over the past three years Blake has trained with arguably the best sprint coach in the world, Glen Mills. Mills, who guided a teenage schoolboy to the Olympic finals in 1984 and one Usain Bolt to gold in the sprint double in Beijing and then to world titles in Berlin and Daegu, knows a thing or two about creating great sprinters.
Blake has watched Bolt become a global superstar knowing his time would come soon enough. That day arrived in August last year at the World Championships in South Korea when following Bolt’s false start, Blake grabbed the opportunity with both hands. As world champion Blake has yet to lose and when he took the national title on Friday night, the man he dethroned just happened to be the man he looked up to for the last three years.
However, Bolt is quite done yet. What people fail to realize is that Bolt, who has been struggling with his start for the past couple years, basically stood up in the blocks and then chased down a 9.7 sprinter. How many men in the world could have done that? Once Bolt gets his start back on track he will be back to being the fastest man who ever lived. Blake is fast now, only three men have ever run faster – Bolt, Gay, Powell but until Blake gets below 9.58
Bolt still holds the crown as the fastest man who ever lived. Once he gets his start back in working order he will be as hard. Yes, the pack may have come a little closer in the past two years, but everyone knows that once Bolt is ready he is still the one and only king.
Source:http://gleanerblogs.com/sports/?p=1340
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