StarWars said:
Is that seriously your logic? So Usain Bolt couldn't have broken 9.7 because it had never been broken before before 2008, right? Wrong.
Yes. If, in 41 years time we had still been waiting for someone to break 9.7s, after millions of attempts, then I would have said it was impossible.
As for Matic Osovnikar, he wouldn't even have made the semi's in Beijing with his PB, indeed he could have had a 0.10s headstart and would still have finished last. He was just lucky that there was a slump in 2007.
You seem to believe that we are on the cusp of white sprint dominance, we are not and I am guessing this is down to your youth and naivety. You're clinging to times like 10.13s, 10.04s etc, these are slower than the times run by white athletes three decades ago. Only Lemaitre's time make the top five, at five.
You cannot compare Lemaitre to Bolt, I am not sure what Bolt was running aged 19 for the 100m, but he had a PB of 19.99s for the 200m. Lemaitre's is 20.68s and that is with almost the full legal wind.
As for the steroid argument, maybe they are, but Lemaitre could take them too but you know why he won't or why he still won't be any better? Because steroids don't seem to work, or work as well, for white athletes - they still can't run sub 10s! Worse is your assumption that whites don't cheat. You don't know whether Lemaitre is on some form of PED, you just hope he isn't.
We'll see what happens in Berlin, but if you are somehow thinking that Lemaitre is going to challenge Bolt, you are going to be sorely disappointed. I'll be very surprised if he breaks his PB.
StarWars said:
And I am truly sorry that Lemaitre, Shirvington, Osovnikar, Pickering, Guliyev, Kenteris, Mennea, Wells, Borzov, Macrozonaris, Yepishin, Wariner, and other white sprinters were ever born. It must make you feel horrible, you self-loathing prick.
As I said, your youth talking.