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Tyson Gay's saving grace for me and the reason I am atleast giving him some reasonable doubt is his willingness to donate a vile of his blood for posterity.I mean for all anybody knows some cuttin-edge dna testing might be viable to detect any previous use. As best as my mind can work it's all a...

I don't know how relevent to your argument it is to list the top pb's of the white spinter and contrast it with their next best times.Half the guys on tne sub 10 hundred list only appear once and usually it is well outside their next best times. Historically accomplishing this feat has been an...

Sorry to have gotten the thread off topic.Back to Lemaitre.I'm not terribly disappointed in his times this week.One of the things we're going to have to deal with for a while is the inconsistency that should come with youth.I don't even expect him to do outlandishly well in the Worlds.I would...

Love the old stuff,especially about Morrow(possibly my favorite sprinter).The Olympics in Melbourne were probably held on the worst track ever that includes the '48 olympics in London. The best tracks of the day were cinder,still basicly dirt but absorbed weather better.Ever pay attention to the...

From my perspective the most exasperating thing about PED's in the sprints is how it taints perspective most of all.Let me try to explain my thoughts. I believe it is quite in the realm of human possibilty 9.69 in the 100m(I don't know about running a 9.69 while skipping the final 15 yards,but...

I was reading master's last analysis,and for the most part if this is accurate I am more impressed with lemaitre.I have always felt that a sprinters first objective should be to win,nevermind the timing. I for one have gotten sick of the obsession with the clock,it has only added another...

Anybody heard anything out of another Canadian kid? Michael(?) Leblanc.Think he was running stateside with Syracuse(?).

Read somewhere Pickering was running a late season meet in Scotland representing English national team. Just blitzed through the article. It's a late season meet.Vibe I was getting is that it was a meet of also-rans.Has he already been relegated to a second rate status by UKA? Anybody got any info?

I think alot of this young man,I just think he has alot of talent.He has had some awful luck I remember last year when he ran a 10.26(?) in a negative 3.6w(?).He's just had some awful breaks a lot of good races into the wind or no help at all.He's had alot of top finishes even if not great...

Any idea yet who is lining up with him?Anybody there that can push him?

W.L. I think your analysis on Lemaitre is spot on, but it only makes me more hopeful finding all these flaws in a great race. You made a comparison earlier of He and A.Wells I would like to make another one from the past...Mennea. Lanky, long-striding,If he could clean up his form(mennea was...

I'm sorry to continue swerving this thread toward Allan Wells,I just think the opportunity exists for sprinting stars like him to come along for the first time in years. And ofcourse using Track and Field as a base sport the caste walls can come down in the bat and ball games.I believe if my...

If memory serves correctly;and there is no guarantee it does,Germany is looking pretty healthy right now.Schwab,Blum,Herring,and Unger is looking pretty tight.Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't he drop a 10.18 into a -2.5w. If my calculations are right(a loss of .o6 sec for every -1m/sec,a gain...

What really gets me is that a 10.1 or 10.2 is still very quick.It is world class in fact.Tough J. you make a good point that silver and bronze were around 9.9 and that is with the PED factor.It is possible that a clean sprinter could match that. One of the problems I have is when I see guys who...

Congrats indeed to Collio.Really I had forgotten about him.Hanging a big 10.0X on the board is a big beal for a guy with that much tread off the tires.What always concerns me about a situation like this is the question:Is this his Bob Beamon moment or could his body produce such a thing...

Wells ran a 10.25 into a negative 1.2 wind...who was his competition...it was only the second man to break the 10 second barrier Silvio Leonard.He did so a couple of years beforehand.Who did the americans have at that time?Carl lewis was still ayear away from being an inconsistent world class...

In fact let me say this they too were amongst the best

Hurdles and jumps are and interesting events which help prove the juicing in the short sprints. Ever pay attention to the all-time top-lists in these events and the age of some of the pb's.nehemiah ran a 12.93 in the 110hh in'81 it took forever for that record to come down...and even now it has...

Ah wells on of my heroes

Good times for young-men in the hi-hurd.

It's already been well noted about Lemaitre's upside.As evidence look at the video of yesterday's final.Admittedly an absolutely lightning quick reaction to the gun,but notice the line down the lane.He's slightly off-balanced to his left(not absolutely detrimental but can add fractions to a...