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Simon Verherstraeten ran a new personal best in the 100 meters today of 10.06 +1.9! So it's wind legal. He is having quite the
breakthrough year of his career. Congrats to this young man!

Haven't found his 10.06 or 20.13 times from today but here is Simon V. racing 2 weeks ago over 100 meters. So smooth!

 

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We talked about Simon Verherstraeten from Belgium. Now it's time to give his teammate some props.

Kobe Vleminckx also ran a new p.b. of 10.15 +0.9! He also ran a 20.23 +0.4 in the same day! Belgium should have a good 4 x 100 Mens Relay Team!
 

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Bol's race....she still does not look like she is trying, it is very impressive to run this fast and look like you are taking a Sunday stroll...

 

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Haven't found his 10.06 or 20.13 times from today but here is Simon V. racing 2 weeks ago over 100 meters. So smooth!

Here is the links for Simon's races. He came in 7th in a very fast 100 and won the 200 C race. That place is at 1000 feet. It's not high altitude, but higher than usual, so the times there are fast.

 

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Here is the links for Simon's races. He came in 7th in a very fast 100 and won the 200 C race. That place is at 1000 feet. It's not high altitude, but higher than usual, so the times there are fast.


The 100 Meters A Final starts at 2.33 minutes approx. Thanks for posting this video freedom1. Simon V. ran that 10.06 out of lane 1. That
is an amazing time out of that horrible lane in my honest opinion. Put him lanes 3,4, 5 or 6 and it's faster most likely.
 

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Hi everyone hope you are all well.

Please accept my sincere apologies for not communicated in such a long time. My family and I went through a really rough patch, not an excuse but an explanation.

I have news on Emile. He has had a torrid time in the past 18 months. Tore a tendon in his foot at the end of the 2022 season.

The prognosis was really bad and he needed an operation on his foot, there was only a 15% chance of total recovery which meant his career was over. He eventually ended up at a doctor that started working with him together with a physio without cutting into his foot.

The recovery was painfully slow but we saw constant improvement. He maintained his fitness and strength during this time through swimming and lots of hours in the gym. Through serious determination and grit, it is the only way I can describe it, he returned to training on the track in middle May. As of a week ago he is back to 100% effort while running and has no pain.

Him and his team decided to dump 2024 and focus on 2025. So God willing we will see him back on the track early next year.

I honestly did not think he will recover from this injury. He will be resuming a normal "winter program" from August 1st and I will keep you guys updated.

During this time Emile's scheduled changed dramatically as he had to start working full-time and he has to fit his training into his work schedule. He has also met his future wife and we are hoping for a wedding soon.

I include a picture of him and his future wife on vacation in Mozambique.

Best regard
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Welcome back Mielie23. So happy to hear that you and your family are doing good. Sad news about all of the physical issues your son had but maybe it's all part of Gods plan. It led to him meeting his fiancee/future wife. So happy for him and I must say he found a beautiful
bride to marry. Maybe they can make many future sprinters in the coming years. Glad he will keep running and being married might just push him to an even higher level. Not only does he have his loving dad but now a 2nd super fan wife to help push him to success.

Please stay safe down there as we always here of so many tragic stories my friend. Keep us posted and I hope you enjoy the Olympics!
 

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Welcome back Mielie23. So happy to hear that you and your family are doing good. Sad news about all of the physical issues your son had but maybe it's all part of Gods plan. It led to him meeting his fiancee/future wife. So happy for him and I must say he found a beautiful
bride to marry. Maybe they can make many future sprinters in the coming years. Glad he will keep running and being married might just push him to an even higher level. Not only does he have his loving dad but now a 2nd super fan wife to help push him to success.

Please stay safe down there as we always here of so many tragic stories my friend. Keep us posted and I hope you enjoy the Olympics!
Thank you so much.

I will keep you guys updated and I will enjoy the Olympics!!
 

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Here is the links for Simon's races. He came in 7th in a very fast 100 and won the 200 C race. That place is at 1000 feet. It's not high altitude, but higher than usual, so the times there are fast.

the altitude there at the track is 996 metres, just under the "altitude" limit. That's 3265 feet so that's why athletes flock there to get great times. Which is totally sensible if they're to add to their international points totals.
 

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Good news for us here in Australia. Josh Azzopardi has been added to the Olympic Games individual 100m. He deserves it for his 2 x 10.15s here and recent 10.14 in Europe. He hasn't peaked yet and said after his call up yesterday they'll have to fast track it by a week now since he has been working on peaking a week and a half later for his relay duties
 

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Which is why he probably will end up doing that. His decision to "come out" was absolutely a calculated political move, designed to give a boost to his career. If coming out by itself won't give him a big enough boost, he'll take it further and further until he gets the attention he craves.

While blacks are glorified in sports far more than any other group, there have also been plenty of black people who have been punished by the globalist elite for having negative opinions about homosexuality. Gays typically outrank blacks in the non-sports political hierarchy, so I don't think this is as simple as "the straight black will automatically be glorified over the gay white."

At the end of the day, homosexuality is just another wedge issue used by the globalists to attack the common people. Homosexuals have always been around, but it's only in recent decades that it became a divisive political issue. The whole idea of "gay pride" would have been unthinkable and laughable throughout the vast majority of history by everyone, including the gays themselves, who in the old days had enough sense not to rub their sexuality in everyone's face. But then the communist agitators came around, spreading the myth that homosexuals were "oppressed" (just like the commies targeted women with feminist propaganda, brainwashing them into thinking they were "oppressed" and that the way to "get freedom" was to wake up to an alarm clock five days a week and take orders from a boss).

Sadly, many of the members of those groups, whether homosexuals, women, blacks, immigrants, etc. have fallen for the commie propaganda, blaming "those damn straights/males/whites/native born Americans/Europeans," etc. for all their own problems. From looking at Trey Cunningham's self-aggrandizing coming out ceremony, it looks like he's a classic case, with "da evil straight man" as his scapegoat.

I don't root for black athletes because they're not my people, but at least being black is not a sin. I can't root for an unrepentant homosexual. Pray for him, yes, cheer for him, no.
Well said. I think I ageee w that completely
 

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Hi everyone hope you are all well.

Please accept my sincere apologies for not communicated in such a long time. My family and I went through a really rough patch, not an excuse but an explanation.

I have news on Emile. He has had a torrid time in the past 18 months. Tore a tendon in his foot at the end of the 2022 season.

The prognosis was really bad and he needed an operation on his foot, there was only a 15% chance of total recovery which meant his career was over. He eventually ended up at a doctor that started working with him together with a physio without cutting into his foot.

The recovery was painfully slow but we saw constant improvement. He maintained his fitness and strength during this time through swimming and lots of hours in the gym. Through serious determination and grit, it is the only way I can describe it, he returned to training on the track in middle May. As of a week ago he is back to 100% effort while running and has no pain.

Him and his team decided to dump 2024 and focus on 2025. So God willing we will see him back on the track early next year.

I honestly did not think he will recover from this injury. He will be resuming a normal "winter program" from August 1st and I will keep you guys updated.

During this time Emile's scheduled changed dramatically as he had to start working full-time and he has to fit his training into his work schedule. He has also met his future wife and we are hoping for a wedding soon.

I include a picture of him and his future wife on vacation in Mozambique.

Best regard
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great news, thank you. Maybe they can honeymoon here in Sydney and start 2025 training here too. I'd show him the ropes. All the best to him
 

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Good news for us here in Australia. Josh Azzopardi has been added to the Olympic Games individual 100m. He deserves it for his 2 x 10.15s here and recent 10.14 in Europe. He hasn't peaked yet and said after his call up yesterday they'll have to fast track it by a week now since he has been working on peaking a week and a half later for his relay duties

Very happy for Josh Azzopardi. He has worked so hard over the last several years to get to this point. It's well deserved. I was crushed when
you said a week ago he had just missed out. Glad Australian Athletics did the right thing and let him do the individual event in addition to
running the relay. It's also good for Rohan Browning to have a teammate lining up in the 100 meters! Good luck to both of them in Paris!
 

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Very happy for Josh Azzopardi. He has worked so hard over the last several years to get to this point. It's well deserved. I was crushed when
you said a week ago he had just missed out. Glad Australian Athletics did the right thing and let him do the individual event in addition to
running the relay. It's also good for Rohan Browning to have a teammate lining up in the 100 meters! Good luck to both of them in Paris!
AA always wanted him in but as at closing of qualifying period he was just a few places behind the 56 qualifier limit for the 100m event. Now with 3 of the original 56 out for one reason or another he has moved up the list to become number 56 qualifier.
 

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I've talked about this in the past. There are two types of sprinters that we see. Really great starters like Ewa Swobada, Richard Kilty, etc.
and really great closers like Lemaitre and Guliyev. It's very hard to be both and you don't see it very often if ever. You take your skill and do the best you can with how your built.

The reason I bring this is up is as an example. Simon Verherstraeten only has run a p.b. in the 60 meters of 6.72! Very average or below average yet he closes like a freight train hence his personal bests of 10.06 and 20.13!

There are many ways to a sub 10 and you don't always have to be the most explosive sprinters out of the blocks. Even Usain Bolt and Carl Lewis always chased people down. They will rarely ever leading until the 2nd half of the races. Something to think about.
 

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Simon Verherstraeten ran a 10:16 to get 5th place in Switzerland today in a really tough field.
 

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Simon Verherstraeten ran a 10:16 to get 5th place in Switzerland today in a really tough field.

This guy has now run these times in the last month or two. Very consistant for a new sprinter rising up to just under the best of the best guys
in the world. His consistancy is something to admire. Todays race was his 2nd race in 3 days so he can do it all.

He has run between 10.06 to 10.16 on 5 times since June all wind legal.


 

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The 2024 European Under 18 Championships starts in about 11 hours from now. Many young male & female track athletes with
alot of upside to follow in the future.

2 sprinters I have a close eye on are Joel Masters of the United Kingdom and Jakob Kemminer of Germany. They both have are tied
for the fastest 100 meters times in their age group in all of Europe. Masters intrigues me even more as he has only been in athletics for
about 1 year now. Late starter but man does this kid have talent! Good luck to both of these young men!
 

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The 2024 European Under 18 Championships starts in about 11 hours from now. Many young male & female track athletes with
alot of upside to follow in the future.

2 sprinters I have a close eye on are Joel Masters of the United Kingdom and Jakob Kemminer of Germany. They both have are tied
for the fastest 100 meters times in their age group in all of Europe. Masters intrigues me even more as he has only been in athletics for
about 1 year now. Late starter but man does this kid have talent! Good luck to both of these young men!

Both of these young men were the fastest sprinters in the semifinals. I give the slight edge to Jakob Kemminer as he had little
wind yet ran the fastest heat time of 10.42! I'm ok with either guy winning but my money is on Kemminer of Germany if I were to bet.
 
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