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All I need is about a 20 meter head start, and I'm there!

What made it worse--it turns out they hadn't bothered to measure the course, and it was 3 meters too long! They'll be adjusting the starting line today. Incidentally, what a great event. I wish we had stuff like this in the U.S. I was killing time reading about this a few days ago--really cool...

Here's a video of LeBlanc in his qualifying heat. Poor start (he appears to stand straight up), but he wins with ease. Note, too, the runners finishing in the top three as opposed to the back of the pack. Looks like a clean sweep: http://www.flotrack.org/videos/coverage/view_video/236783/323681...

Cut and paste here: Jared Connaughton of New Haven teamed up with an International 4x100 relay team to win the University of Texas at Arlington Bobby Lane Invitational recently. <div>Connaughton and teammates Anson Henry of Ontario and Americans Otis McDaniel and Darvis (Doc) Patton won...

Marek Niit won the 100 today at the Razorback invitational. Windy day, but a win's a win, and it follows on the heels of Connaughton's and Ambler's victories. Nice to see this run of firsts in the sprints. Incidentally, the results listed Niit (misspelled Nitt) as unattached. Not sure why...

Ooh, it looks like this season is off to a good start. The day before Connaughton's first-place finish, a Florida State freshman from New Zealand named David Ambler won the 100 at the USF Bulls Invitational. Time was 10.37. http://www.tfrrs.org/results/15014_998729.html

The outdoor track season has begun in Australia and in the southern US. 3/20, running unattached, Jared Connaughton ran 10.20 to win the TCU Horned Frog Invitational. http://www.tfrrs.org/results/15861_998567.html

Looks like we missed seeing one: Belgium, led by the Borlee bros (not sure who the other two were) finished second in the 4 x 400. Not bad!! Kevin Borlee will go back to running for FSU now. Apparently, Jonathan has gone pro or something. Look for them in the outdoor season.

Dammit! This may be a problem for the website guru. In theory, though, if you type in the first half of the link then type in (without the spaces), the letter sequence I give in the second half of the last message, you should be able to get to the race. So weird. Maybe seeing this video is sort...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUCMIfFKNWO Okay, this is the last time I'll attempt this week. I tested it in the preview box, and it worked, so I'll cross my fingers and hope it doesn't change when I post. The letters at the end of the equal should read O U C M I f F K z O g --we'll see if...

Well, apparently I'm in the Twilight Zone. Every time I tried to post that link, some letters would be cut off. So after work, I thought I'd see if I could figure it out, and tried to go back to the video, which I'd stumbled upon earlier by searching "Martin Lamy," not LeMaitre. But now the...

Okay, for some reason, whenever I try to highlight the link, it changes it to something completely different. Let's try something different: just cut and paste this into your browser: <h1>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUCMIfFKNWO </h1>

A few weeks ago, LeMaitre fans surely recall his excellent 200 where LeMessiah beat another very promising French youngster, Martin Lamy. We found a shaky youtube of that. Well, as luck would have it, I just found someone else's video of the same event. This one is not only much better, but it...

LeMaitre is such a feel-good story that I didn't want to stick this annoying article about him in his folder, so I'm sticking it here. A French journalist writes about the bright hopes in French sprinting, LeMaitre being one. He starts off by saying that the other guy has more potential. Note...

Hopefully, the World Indoor Champs will be available to watch at least on the Internet, although I won't have any free time this weekend to see it myself. Anyway, I just saw the list of starters, which could still change over the next few days, and, for anyone who can watch, here's some names to...

Gehret's going to Penn State, where they have been collecting an amazing cast of extremely promising 800 guys, so I don't they'll want to stick him there. At any rate, he seems best at the 200. His 60 time is good for high school (sub 7), but not good enough for a 100 man, so he must really turn...

And, lest we forget, somewhere out there, in the backwoods of Azerbaijan, we've got another fearless sprinter who announced last year, at the age of 19, "Bolt can be beaten." Guliyev was right on LeMaitre's heels in the 10.04 race. One last link--an video interview with LeMaitre--then I...

He's just US #1 at 200, 300, and 400. That's all. :) Oh, and it looks like he's #10 at the long jump, too. In the meanwhile, the other kid we've been talking about, Patrick Farmer, just won the NY championships at the 300. NY had seven of the top 11 300 runners in the country, so beating them...

Brady Gehret never lets us down. Just visited Dyestat and discovered that he not only won both the 200 and 400 at the PA championships, but his 200 time (21.22) was the best in the country this year, and the eighth best h.s. time ever!! To put that time in perspective, he was within .07 of the...

Here's a link to the race: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/7384027/World-Indoor-Athletics-2010-Harry-Aikines-Aryeetey-loses-to-Christophe-Lemaitre-in-60m.html As you can see, he is way back in the pack for the first half of the race. In the second 30m, however, he is...

LeMaitre wins!!! Turned on the stream just at the right moment. He beat an absolutely stacked world-class field with a time of 6.58 in the final. That's yet another time in the 6.5's for LeMaitre. He's developing that all-important consistency. In this race, which they just replayed several...

I'm not sure if he's already raced, but LeMaitre's meet is available on a live stream: http://www.justin.tv/bokirkiuc#r=kFvPLKQ~

I like to check around and see if there are any young hopes on the horizon to beat the Kenyans, and I think I may have found a real possibility. Johann Rogestedt (who may have been mentioned before on the boards) first burst on the scene last year, when, as a gawky 16-yr-old, he won the world...

At the age of 23, Tyson Gay's best 100m was 10.08. At the age of 21 Usain Bolt's best 100m was 10.03. Christophe LeMaitre is (to paraphrase the song) nineteen. Nineteen. N-n-n-nineteen. Let's see what he can do. (Oh, and if the other two could finally get caught for their steroids somehow...

A typically shaky youtube video of the great event. Kinda hard to tell for sure, but it looked like LeMaitre had a good start for a change, but didn't kick in to his usual highest gear. Maybe it was an illusion because he had an extremely fast competitor next to him, but I think he can go...