Benjamin is young enough that I would think he's going to develop into a
low 44's runner at the very least. I think that Rock and Wariner are
actually an aid to guys like Benjamin, who see two white guys kicking tail
and realize they can do it also. I honestly think Benjamin has a shot at
the European record next season (and Rock to hit 44.1). His emergence
this year was "Wariner like". In fairness to Wariner, he was the FASTEST
high schooler in the US at the 200 when he was a senior (and #2 in the
400 I think - off the top of my head), and received scant notice or
attention, so Wariner's rise wasn't all that surprising. Wariner has scary
talent, he should run mid 43s at least. If he runs under 20 in the 200 as
his coach believes he can, then he has a shot at taking the WR from MJ.
If Wariner runs the 200 in the next year or two, and runs as fast as many
think he can, that will put another huge crack in the barrier. There have
been fast guys from Europe over the last few decades in the 200, but with
the small coverage track gets outside of Olympic years, they received no
pub in the US. Notable was Pietro Mennea, who won the Gold in 1980
and held the WR in the 200 for years - breaking the record of "black
power" Tommie Smith. Of course, we had to put up with blacks who were
getting whipped by Mennea making claims that Mennea would run on the
line, or cut into the inside lanes, etc. Ridiculous. Officials would have
gleefully bounced him from events, never mind video showing that
Mennea was always in his lane, unlike Carl Lewis who constantly got away
with running on the line or crossing over in his 200 races. But he was
untouchable for some reason ; ).
Anyway, if Wariner puts up numbers in the 200, more white kids will hit
that event, and if you can run a good 200, you can hit a good 100. And if
enough guys are running the 100, you'll find a gem. I used to laugh at
people who claimed Borzov had no talent, he was strictly a robot created
with drugs. If that were the case, there would have been an army of
Borzovs, right? There's a lot of athletic talent in the Ukraine, btw.
Anyway, the fast kids are out there, they need to be channeled into the
event. But it's a fight against the system at all stages. BTW - speaking of
fast Ukranians, keep in mind Sergey Bubka, the greatest pole vaulter ever,
was a 10.26 100 meter man - and he was obviously not concentrating on
that event. So it's a matter of keeping talented white kids focused on the
event, and keeping them from being hammered by the anti-white forces
all around, never mind the brainwashed, "well meaning" coaches who will
deny white talent when it stares them in the face.
No white man has won the 100 at the Olympics (or World's) since Alan
Wells in 1980. I always enjoyed the way the press tried to play his win as
due to the boycott - because the claim fell apart when Wells went out and
flattened everyone to prove he was the best at the time. He was a very
tough nut mentally.
