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    2021 Track Season Results

    No offence, but if you're not going sub-10 for men and sub-11 for women, you may as well not bother.
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Gemili isn't white.
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    2021 Track Season Results

    There's no denying that 10.22 in the biggest race of his life is poor. Possibly he is worn out, though guys aged 21 have a lot of energy. Perhaps a relaxed summer followed by a winter of solid training will get him to sub-10. I think someone mentioned he's transferring to LSU? They have a...
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Great effort by Prandini, but ultimately it's yet another Olympics without a single white athlete representing the USA in the 100m, the blue riband event. Boling ran only 10.13 in the biggest competition of his life, with +2.0 wind. With that wind assistance one and running for the Olympics...
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    2021 Track Season Results

    I just looked her up - 5'1 and 103 pounds! Wow, that really is tiny. And a box squat of 355, well over triple her bodyweight! Interesting weight program aiming to build strength without size, to increase the overall power to weight ratio. Allyson Felix, who is also quite slim (especially for a...
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    Matthew Boling 9.98, 19.92, 45.17 and 8.25 LJ

    Shirvo ran 10.03 wind-legal aged 19. Nothing is certain. I'm sure Boling will go lower than 10.11, maybe even break 10, but to get on the podium in world and most importantly Olympic finals you've got to be capable of getting into the 9.8s. I'd love to see it but it's a long way off right now.
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Real pity about Lemaitre. To have run 9.92 aged 20 with limited French training in his hometown, he had the world at his feet. His top end speed was reminiscent of Fahnbulleh - he just used to come scything through the field in the last 60m. Unfortunately his personality was typically French...
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Look who's talking.
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    2021 Track Season Results

    1500m too - Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman for the men, and Laura Muir for the women. All potential medallists. Brings back memories of the great Coe/Ovett/Cram era.
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    2021 Track Season Results

    What did he do before 2019?
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Good, thoughtful post. Kilty was ultimately (yet another) disappointment: he and Morne Nagel (another of ours) are I believe the only guys in history to go under 6.5 for the 60 and *not* go sub-10 in the 100. With all due respect to 60m and 200m, the 100m is the big one that everyone watches...
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Haha that hair thing is hilarious! As for getting faster, I'd like to see it, just pointing out that Shirvo, Pickering and Lemaitre all got slower after age 21. But we will see. Certainly the incredible excitement about him has been severely blunted in the past couple of months. WL says he will...
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    2021 Track Season Results

    He's 21, not some skinny high-schooler. And he is already well-built and clearly well trained. Unlike say Fahnbulleh, who has a terrible start which can be massively improved, I don't see where huge improvements are going to come from for Boling.
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Tortu ran his PB 3 years ago aged 20. You say he will continue to improve but he hasn't gone faster in 3 years. And that's not what we saw with Shirvo, Lemaitre and Pickering. A hundred guys can run 10.07 on a good day. I was looking for someone to blow away the field, run 9.8 or lower, and win...
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Yeah he has an astonishing style, like he has springs on his shoes. His top-level speed reminds me of Lemaitre 10 years ago. His start is comically bad. If he gets some serious training and strict diet he could be seriously fast. With that basic speed, the only thing holding you back is...
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Always "about to", for the last 25 years (ie as long as I can remember). Yeah Kilty and Guliyev did OK, but the 100m in major championships is where it's at. That is the blue riband event that everyone watches. And after all this time there's never been one of our guys even come close. I...
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Shirvington ran 10.03 aged 19. To have never run faster than when you were a teenager is.....very odd. And very disappointing. As for Lemaitre, who knows what was going on in that guy's head. Wells and Borzov were more than 40 years ago, and neither got near 10 seconds.
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    2021 Track Season Results

    Actually I pretty much forgot about this board for 10 years after LeMaitre flopped. Then Boling emerged I started to pay attention again. Of course I'm rooting for our guys, but after having your hopes raised and being disappointed time after time, I guess you just have to be realistic. I...
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    2021 Track Season Results

    That's what I mean - he beat Laird only 6 months ago but now he isn't in the same ballpark. It just seems to be a pattern with white sprinters: peak around age 20 and then decline. We'll see. He certainly won't be going to the Olympics.
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    2021 Track Season Results

    6th place for Boling in the 100 (and probably would have been 7th if the guy inside him hadn't pulled up injured). That's disastrous, considering what he was doing before this year: some had him making the Olympic team. Seems like our guys always start off fast but go backward: think of Shirvo...
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    Matthew Boling 9.98, 19.92, 45.17 and 8.25 LJ

    Shirvo ran his best time aged 19. Pickering and Lemaitre went backwards from their early 20s. From hoping to make the Olympic team to finishing 3rd in a regional college meet is not progress. No need for the snark. Just saying.
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    Matthew Boling 9.98, 19.92, 45.17 and 8.25 LJ

    Not gonna lie, I'm pretty disappointed Boling got whupped so easily by Laird. Their indoor rivalry was close, but Laird is so far ahead now. And not even 2nd place in the 200 ☹ I hoped the extra year might give Matt a chance to make the Olympic team for one or both sprints but that's not gonna...
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    Craig Pickering

    Yes, nice to hear Craig's on the comeback trail. His old enemy Simeon Williamson just had a decent season after two years out with injury. And like white lightning said, other than Gemili there's not much to British sprinting. Chambers and Lewis-Francis are past it, and the likes of...
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    Christophe Lemaitre "White Lightning" 9.92 and 19.80!

    My earlier comment about Frenchmen not liking hard work was kind of meant in jest, but from reading about Lemaitre's refusal to go and train in the US because it was "too hard", I guess it was actually true! What was particularly disappointing was seeing Churandy Martina lining up in the...
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    Christophe Lemaitre "White Lightning" 9.92 and 19.80!

    Really disappointing Olympics from LeMaitre. After 3 years of progress (2009, great time in winning the world juniors; 2010, the Euro double and sub-10; and 2011, 19.80 and a world champ medal) he's flopped this year. We've seen similar trajectories with Shirvo and Pickering - great early...
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