Christophe Lemaitre "White Lightning" 9.92 and 19.80!
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I disagree very highly. Craig ran 10.26 on a slower track than Lemaitre with less wind. He had only been outperformed by Schwab until Lemaitre's 10.03 and 10.28 no wind, but Lemaitre has raced four times. Craig, under the pressure of Simeon, will break 10.10 for sure. He will get close in his next meet if the conditions are right. He is the fastest, most consistent white spprinter right now. Lemaitre will pass him in time, though.
Let's see what he does in his next race.
As much as I like and respect Craig, and want him to do well, I am starting to get the impression that he has peaked. He has not improved his times in the past few seasons, did not have a good indoor season, and continues to have bad starts and poor technique in all his races. Basically, he is not improving, while others are. Hopefully I'm wrong. In fact I will be happy if I am wrong!...but I don't see any evidence of improvement. He does have very good 'top end speed', but it may have taken him as far as he can go - unless he finally learns how to run the first 40 meters of the race.
As much as I like and respect Craig, and want him to do well, I am starting to get the impression that he has peaked. He has not improved his times in the past few seasons, did not have a good indoor season, and continues to have bad starts and poor technique in all his races. Basically, he is not improving, while others are. Hopefully I'm wrong. In fact I will be happy if I am wrong!...but I don't see any evidence of improvement. He does have very good 'top end speed', but it may have taken him as far as he can go - unless he finally learns how to run the first 40 meters of the race.
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Christophe Lemaitre is now the 6th fastest 18 year old sprinter that has ever lived regardless of conditions. Wow is he in some good company. This kid is amazing and I can't wait to see where this story goes from here. What a talent! Here is the link.
http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=50830.htmlEdited by: white lightning
http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=50830.htmlEdited by: white lightning
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Jacknyc. "He has not improved his times in the past few seasons, did not have a good indoor season, and continues to have bad starts and poor technique in all his races".
This is what happened to Matt Shirvington when the weight of expectation was put on him. He'd throw in a couple of good runs and then start back to bad habits just when I thought he had conquered them.
I hope Craig can get over what I believe are mental issues associated with expectation (from himself and others).
I was corresponding with Shirvo's uncle (who I compete against occasionally) yesterday and he told me Matt had spent Sunday afternoon at the movies with his dad. That's the sort of "got it together" family guy he is.
In retrospect it's easy to see why sprinting was never going to dominate his whole life. He had a job as TV presenter on a travel show, he did commercials, he spent time in London where his wife has a restaurant,then he had two kids.....seems his life is so well balanced that he can train just to keep fit (and still run 10.5 at the drop of a hat)
This is what happened to Matt Shirvington when the weight of expectation was put on him. He'd throw in a couple of good runs and then start back to bad habits just when I thought he had conquered them.
I hope Craig can get over what I believe are mental issues associated with expectation (from himself and others).
I was corresponding with Shirvo's uncle (who I compete against occasionally) yesterday and he told me Matt had spent Sunday afternoon at the movies with his dad. That's the sort of "got it together" family guy he is.
In retrospect it's easy to see why sprinting was never going to dominate his whole life. He had a job as TV presenter on a travel show, he did commercials, he spent time in London where his wife has a restaurant,then he had two kids.....seems his life is so well balanced that he can train just to keep fit (and still run 10.5 at the drop of a hat)
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I with mastermulti on this one. the mental aspect is the key to breaking the Ten barrier. see my post on Craig Pickering. hey mastermulti, hanging out with Shirvo's dad? where's the autographs? what's your address, I'm sending you a pair of spikes!
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haha! no, not his dad.... his uncle. They are a close family though.
He does "masters" in the same age group as myself
He does "masters" in the same age group as myself
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Dad, Uncle you still got a connection! that's great.
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I'm suprised no one commented on the IAAF.org article on the meet in France that Christophe ran the 10.03 in. The 6th fastest teenager of all time regardless of conditions. Good show mate. This kid has such a great upside to come yet. I just wonder if people will quit supporting him if he doesn't go sub 10 within 2 years. Oh the horror.
This kid has 9.80's potential down the road and maybe beyond that. It will depend on him staying healthy, and putting on some serious muscle. He will be 19 soon so his body should really start to fill out nicely over the coming years. Some times he looks like he has barely hit puberty, but yet to see him run is special. This is one guy I would pay to see run. The talent is just natural. He was born to run. I'm anxious to see his next race.
6th Best Of All Time Already. Viva La France. Viva Lemaitre!
This kid has 9.80's potential down the road and maybe beyond that. It will depend on him staying healthy, and putting on some serious muscle. He will be 19 soon so his body should really start to fill out nicely over the coming years. Some times he looks like he has barely hit puberty, but yet to see him run is special. This is one guy I would pay to see run. The talent is just natural. He was born to run. I'm anxious to see his next race.
6th Best Of All Time Already. Viva La France. Viva Lemaitre!
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Its awesome!
white lightning said:
This kid is awesome. Every race, even at his 155 lb 18 year old frame, I wonder if I'm going to come on here and see that he has broken ten. If any of our sprinters break ten, I want to hear it from you guys first.Edited by: StarWars
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Does anybody have a link to a video of Christophe's 10.03? I want to add it to my collection.
StarWars, a few times you've hinted at your track accomplishments, but I don't remember seeing where you've actually told us out-and-out. You ran in the state meet last weekend, yes? Just gettting there, that's a big accomplishment in itself.
It also sounds like albinosprint might still be young enough to take another shot at it? Probably not realistic, seeing how life moves on, but it would be kind of cool seeing one of the guys we've had on this discussion board being one of the guys we follow in the news. ...Just a thought.
It also sounds like albinosprint might still be young enough to take another shot at it? Probably not realistic, seeing how life moves on, but it would be kind of cool seeing one of the guys we've had on this discussion board being one of the guys we follow in the news. ...Just a thought.
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Well,
I registered myself just because you speak about Christophe.
I follow him since 2007.
I support him because I'm french, not because of his skin.
Here is a link of his 10'03 (you're welcome DegradationParadox</span>
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http://www.dailymotion.com/relevanc...0sx_athle-meeting-d1-forbach-100m-c-lem_sport
This is a really nice guy, modest but he start to feel the preasure.
He is unknow by the population but the sport journalist write good things on him and he is intervewed a lot, camera etc..
So I think it's important to not expect too much from him.
He is a kid.
I read 9'80 or medal, whatever, I think it's too more guys.
But I'm sure he'll be run a sub-10.
His next race will be saturday (200m) in Geneve in Switzerland.
If you want some good news about him and interviews :
http://radioparilly.20minutes-blogs.fr/
http://www.ledauphine.com/autres-@/index.jspz?chaine=55
When he'll do a race, the day after you'll have an article on him with a interview.
Of course it's in french but I think with google translate it should work.
There is nothing right now at theses links but trust me just after a race there will be some articles.
So Vive la france !! and Allez Christophe!!!!!!!!!!
Salut les gars!!
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I registered myself just because you speak about Christophe.
I follow him since 2007.
I support him because I'm french, not because of his skin.
Here is a link of his 10'03 (you're welcome DegradationParadox</span>
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevanc...0sx_athle-meeting-d1-forbach-100m-c-lem_sport
This is a really nice guy, modest but he start to feel the preasure.
He is unknow by the population but the sport journalist write good things on him and he is intervewed a lot, camera etc..
So I think it's important to not expect too much from him.
He is a kid.
I read 9'80 or medal, whatever, I think it's too more guys.
But I'm sure he'll be run a sub-10.
His next race will be saturday (200m) in Geneve in Switzerland.
If you want some good news about him and interviews :
http://radioparilly.20minutes-blogs.fr/
http://www.ledauphine.com/autres-@/index.jspz?chaine=55
When he'll do a race, the day after you'll have an article on him with a interview.
Of course it's in french but I think with google translate it should work.
There is nothing right now at theses links but trust me just after a race there will be some articles.
So Vive la france !! and Allez Christophe!!!!!!!!!!
Salut les gars!!
Edited by: jphoenix001
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Of course, but I just don't want christophe to be a kind of icon of the white pride, you now or something like that, because he is a really nice guy and absolutely not racist at all.
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Ya I'm a junior and run in the low to mid 11's fairly consistently. Because I had an injury since winter I had to compete naturally without any training. It was frustrating, but I have next year. In the 100 my times are ok but that's only because I'm a good starter. I rarely pull away from people and can barely break 23.50 in the 200. It's funny because I am fairly skinny, about 160 lbs. I couldn't even lift weights that much. In the 55 meter I expect to run under 6.50 so if you want to know I'll keep you posted. I also play football, and run a 4.54.
My guess is due to the fact that track is usually only followed by people who run track, most people here have either run track or still do (White Lightning, me, Mastermulti, Albinosprint). I knew nothing about about track until I started running it.
I did ok at the state meet. Chris McConnell won in 10.98. There was a headwind so that time is not half bad for him. He is also a junior and runs a state record 6.34 in the 55. He barely missed the finals at the national meet.
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Anyways, on 2009/07/07 he will face Usain Bolt on 200m.
That's going to be awesome.
Next week he'll run a 100m and I hope he'll break the french junior record (10'19).
His coach think he will able to do 10,10 this year.
The matter is he is always ahead very soon or he is better when he has some concurrence, because he has an amazing spirit.
In the interview he just says he expeted to break his record (10'26) because he felt very good in semi-final but not break that much
Voilà,
Salut !!
Edited by: jphoenix001
That's going to be awesome.
Next week he'll run a 100m and I hope he'll break the french junior record (10'19).
His coach think he will able to do 10,10 this year.
The matter is he is always ahead very soon or he is better when he has some concurrence, because he has an amazing spirit.
In the interview he just says he expeted to break his record (10'26) because he felt very good in semi-final but not break that much
Voilà,
Salut !!
Edited by: jphoenix001
jphoenix001 said:
I am not racist either. And what's wrong with white pride? Or black pride? Or Asian pride? We have a right to be proud of who we are. Would you like a bland world with one culture adhering to a marxist agenda, with one color of skin, and eyes?
I root for Lemaitre because he is proof that whites can run too. I can't believe he is barely older than me and a second faster. Darn, I thought I was fast.
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yes jphonenix, thanks! keep us posted on Lemaitre.
observer, When I was in about 23 I thought about getting back into to track after about a 2 year layoff. unfortunately I lent up getting a really bad case of sinusitis that almost led to my death. after 4 surgeries & 8 cycles of steroids (for my nose) in about 2 1/2 years I managed to put on about 110lbs. I'm now 33 years old and still about 50lbs over my sprinting weight, but I do plan to run again. the local high school will be running weekly summer meets and a old friend from college (who is black) has challenged me to a race. I ran against this guy almost my whole life and in thirty races we are tied even with 15 to 15. he wants to have one last race to decide who is the best. the problem is he is in better shape now then he was in college and I'm a fat sh*t. so the race is going to be next year July 4th weekend. which give me more than a year to lose about fifty pounds and start training again. wish me luck, I'm going to need it!
observer, When I was in about 23 I thought about getting back into to track after about a 2 year layoff. unfortunately I lent up getting a really bad case of sinusitis that almost led to my death. after 4 surgeries & 8 cycles of steroids (for my nose) in about 2 1/2 years I managed to put on about 110lbs. I'm now 33 years old and still about 50lbs over my sprinting weight, but I do plan to run again. the local high school will be running weekly summer meets and a old friend from college (who is black) has challenged me to a race. I ran against this guy almost my whole life and in thirty races we are tied even with 15 to 15. he wants to have one last race to decide who is the best. the problem is he is in better shape now then he was in college and I'm a fat sh*t. so the race is going to be next year July 4th weekend. which give me more than a year to lose about fifty pounds and start training again. wish me luck, I'm going to need it!
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Thanks for all the info on Christophe. This kid can really run and he is as nice as they come. I'm glad he is finally running a 200 outdoors. I was hoping he would have run one already. He broke the indoor 200 record. His form is very nice and he just needs to get more power out of the blocks. Almost every race, he is losing by a descent margin until he gets those long strides going and catches up or passes people. When he can nail the start and drive phase, the sub 10 will be his! He will have to get in line though as someone is going to beat him to it. I see Craig and Christophe having quite a nice rivarly over the next 8 years or so.
Welcome to the board and please give us any updates you can. Thanks.
Welcome to the board and please give us any updates you can. Thanks.
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jphonenix, thank you for the links! Very much appreciated!</span>
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