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Beautiful time. He definitely runs better when he doesn't have to worry about the competition. I think running behind Bolt and Powell distracts him and forces him into bad habits. He'll go sub-20 this weekend as long as the wind cooperates. If anyone finds a better video, with slow motion...

Also looking for a meet link. By the way, it was interesting to read that last remark from the French study about sprinters getting longer and skinnier. I'm not really seeing that. Most of the Jamaicans still look like bulked-up bodybuilders. Historically, though, the short heavily-muscled...

I'm switching threads--I'd been talking about the Euro juniors on the Watch List thread, but I think the 800 guys are good enough to belong here. It turned out to be a darn good race. The event website has been posting quality videos of all the races, so if you'd rather watch it not knowing...

I seem to have developed an uncanny knack for highlighting the wrong people in my pre-event analyses. It turns out the big star of the Euro juniors is a Swedish female pole vaulter, Angelica Bengtsson. She broke one record after another--meet records, age records, national records. And some...

Another one bites the dust. As always (for those posters who still inexplicably harbor doubts about whether the Jamaicans are juicing), the evidence of the eyes made her guilt obvious long before she was actually caught by testers...

Pleasant surprises from the Russian championships: Savinova set a world lead in the women's 800. Anastasiya Kapachinskaya set a world lead in the women's 400, well ahead of the ballyhooed Alyson Felix.

PlanB, get off your high horse. I do not address my posts to CL. Nor can I imagine an alternate universe in which he reads them, except perhaps in your fevered imagination. LeMaitre himself said he was "extremely disappointed" in the race. You can jump up and down and pretend an "extremely...

At least Christophe agrees with me: "Extremely disappointed," Lemaitre "had nevertheless made a good start." "I was really warming up. I did not find my feelings at all. I was soft, he told the microphone of Canal +. I do not know it was not the race I wanted to do . I did not feel the same...

Not just finishing fifth, but finishing fifth in a race that did not have Asafa Powell, Tyson Gay, Yohan Blake, etc, etc. Three of the guys that beat him have zero chance of medalling at the World Champs, and little chance of even making the finals. Look, you guys can act like this was a...

Those guys all beat Christophe by a country mile. He was never close and never getting closer. Recently, people have been disappointed by his 9.95's because they weren't below 9.9. But 10.03? Vicaut almost beat that time in the juniors earlier today.

Terrible. Awful. Don't watch a youtube video of this race unless you want to be depressed. Bad time. No excuse. Everyone else ran a good time. LeMaitre was annihilated and only beat the two sacrificial slowpokes. All of the reasonably world class guys, including the mediocre ones...

The 400 finals were today and went to form. The young Hungarian star dominated with a dynamite time for his age 45.42. As anticipated, the Russian Uglov came in second.

Outrageous 5000m race in Monaco. Track fans were salivating to see what Solinski and Rupp could do against the world best. They never found out. Instead, the ******* Merga, already notorious for pushing at the Pre-Fontaine, apparently knocked both of them out of the race. The video kept...

The European Junior championships start tomorrow. I've become wary of writing these little previews, as I get my hopes up for certain athletes, and they never seem to produce--not unlike the predictable build-up to every LeMaitre race, during which everyone gets so worked up that they're...

Here's an impressive stat. Double amputee Oscar "the blade runner" Pistorius ran, I think, a 45.04 yesterday. That's faster than the best Borlee time for the year. Having seen him run, I know that Oscar always has to accomplish these times despite incredibly slow starts. Here's the race...

WL, Those are actually the results from the final. The Greek won, and in a pretty snappy time for such a bad wind. He's younger than Alaka, too.

Windy, but the times are decent: Réthimno GRE 13 July help: click on name to get more info about athlete. Men 100 m Wind: 2.8 1 Rytis Sakalauskas LTU 27.6.87 10.10 2 Aaron Rouge-Serret AUS 21.1.88 10.20 3...

Okay, seeing as no one else has posted on it, I suppose I will take up the sad duty of describing how dreadful Wariner looked today. Absolutely awful. He was left way, way, way back with the also-rans, and it wasn't even a fast race. He finished fourth. By all indications, he's done. He...

Frederic is right. Last year, Bolt announced that his times would be slow before the season even started. How could he know that he would be 5/10's of a second slower? Because he knew he wouldn't be on the same juicing plan. Then, when Bolt realized how much slower he'd become, he started...

Zell--Bolt is awesome, which is why he can run 20-flat even clean, but he can't now nor could he ever run 19.5 clean. One thing that's been posted here many times is how LeMaitre's times have been consistently faster than Bolt's for the same ages, but then Bolt suddenly experienced a...

And if you guys are still disappointed in the time, consider this: the third and fourth place runners were 4 full TENTHS of a second behind Lemaitre. Not hundredths, but tenths. He totally outclassed everyone in the field not named Bolt. And Bolt is hearing footsteps...

Heck, yeah, I'm serious. Remember, there were five other runners in that race, besides Bolt and Lemaitre, and Christophe made all the others look like schoolchildren down the stretch. Those were world class runners from the US and the Caribbean and they didn't look like they belonged on the...

Well, I sure thought he looked good. The time (20.21) was disappointing, but then Bolt didn't even crack 20, so maybe it just wasn't a good day for the 200. After watching the race live and the various slow-motion replays, I'm becoming more and more confident that Christophe can take the...

I haven't checked yet to see if Gemili (our brightest sprint hope) is running, but for me this race is all about Amy Weissenbach v. Jessica Judd. Weissenbach is the staggeringly great American 800 m runner who burst on the scene this year and who--oh, yeah--also scored over 2300 (out of 2400 for...

Thanks, Multi. My favorite Aussie runners are Gregson (he can be something special), Solomon (one of our best hopes of keeping the Wariner 400 tradition alive), Alex Rowe (part of a worldwide resurgence of young 800m guys), and the spectacular Miss Breen (who may not be world class on the track...