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Alleyne Francique is Fred Kerley's coach.

He left him at the end of this summer, So A. Francique is no longer coaching Fred Kerley. I'm not sure who else he is coaching or it could be only
Matthew Boling for now. In a way I hope he is coaching a few other sprinters that can push Boling to greater heights. It will be very
exciting to see Boling try to make the Olympics in Paris next year and also to see him racing both at home and across Europe!
 
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If you go back in time there was not the huge disparity that you see today. Guys like Bobby Morrow and Valeriy Borzov won the
100 and 200 meters at the Olympics against these guys you say can't be beat. When it was a far more level playing field there
was little difference. When the peds started it eventually gave them the edge they needed. Countless black sprinters have been
busted with very few elite white sprinters. To think it's just genetic does not make much sense. There are many factors. Start with
cleaning up the sport but sadly that will never happen. Too much money involved so the testers look the other way.
Bob Hayes (then James Ray Hines) were the pointers in the 1960s to what would happen in sprints in the future.
I believe it emboldened people of African ancestry (wet coast, sub saharan) to dream. And it's a cheap sport to start in. Then it became a game of numbers. Huge numbers of participants build a bigger pyramid, naturally with a higher peak
 

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Matthew Boling finally has a youtube channel. Not much content yet but it will get alot better going forward I'm sure! Hoping his
first year as a professional in 2024 will be huge and include some personal best times. Hope he can make the Olympic Team too!


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Behind the Scenes: Matthew Boling Training Vlog
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I agree. It's been my biggest fear all through college. They always want white sprinters to move up to the higher distances which
are more racially appropriate. It's a joke. The kid was born to run the 100 & 200 meters. He should be trained for those events
and that's it. Stop with the 400 meters and yes I've even heard talk of the 800 for a while now. They must hold whitey down!
 

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I agree. It's been my biggest fear all through college. They always want white sprinters to move up to the higher distances which
are more racially appropriate. It's a joke. The kid was born to run the 100 & 200 meters. He should be trained for those events
and that's it. Stop with the 400 meters and yes I've even heard talk of the 800 for a while now. They must hold whitey down!
The prevailing narrative cannot and must not be questioned!! As soon as enough white men (modern women are hopeless) wake up and have a little racial pride again and believe in their potential for masculine greatness, the house of (Jew) cards falls.
 

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He ran a 9.98 last year in April and this year his best is 10.24. You don’t just suddenly lose over a quarter of a second on your 100m time in the prime of your sprinting career in your early 20’s.

I don’t follow any social media so I may be out of the loop on this one but has he or his coaches provided any explanation for his poor performance in the 100m this year?
 

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He ran a 9.98 last year in April and this year his best is 10.24. You don’t just suddenly lose over a quarter of a second on your 100m time in the prime of your sprinting career in your early 20’s.

I don’t follow any social media so I may be out of the loop on this one but has he or his coaches provided any explanation for his poor performance in the 100m this year?

In my opinion it was for 2 main reasons. One he was overly tired as they raced him as much or more than any other male collegiate sprinter!
Second he was not training for any specific distance but trying to be a swiss army knife of sprinting. You can be good at alot of distances but
to be great you need to pick 1 or 2 and that's it. Some guys only run the 100 meters. Others run only the 200 meters. The really talented guys
can compete over 100 and 200 meters. This is where Boling belongs as he is the cream of the crop. They trained him in the wrong manner and also overraced him. They killed the kids confidence and kept moving him all over the place. It goes back on the coaching staff.

Now all we hear is that he has to run the 400. I don't even like him doing the 200 & 400. It's better than just the 400 but the kid just needs
a world class coach to train him for the 100 and 200 meters. Do that and I guarantee you that we would see massive results!
 

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WL, I agree for the most part. I also agree on the coaching levels. He now has Kerley's ex coach(hmmmm) well if dum dum Kerley can go frm 400's to 100/200m then there is no reason Boling can't stick with the 100/200m as he is as talented as Kerley....
Still think he should hook up with Steiner/Prandini's training group.....
 

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Here’s another thing. His personal best in the 400 is 45.17. That’s a good time and all but hardly world class. He ranks out at like number 70 with that time. The fastest 100m time this year was 9.83. He should have focused on getting down into the 9.8 range this year as that would have put him among the worlds fastest.
 

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SInce it's only a couple of days until Christmas this video is perfect!


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Matthew Boling Undercover Race: Beat Me, Win $100​

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Here is his latest training video. After the track workout he hits the weights and let's just say he is way stronger than Christophe was.


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Matthew Boling Track Workout: Behind the Scenes Ep. 2​


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Posted on the T&FN message board after Boling's 45.23 400m.

"Poor Matt Boiling. He's a jack of all trades master of none type. I forsee him being a mixed relay global champ for the rest of his career. The sprints in America are just too competitive. He needs to start looking for that Irish ancestor and jump ship."
 

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Posted on the T&FN message board after Boling's 45.23 400m.

"Poor Matt Boiling. He's a jack of all trades master of none type. I forsee him being a mixed relay global champ for the rest of his career. The sprints in America are just too competitive. He needs to start looking for that Irish ancestor and jump ship."
I’d rather Whites represent their homeland countries than invaders such as Ngannou get labeled as French Men lol.
 

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I was looking at the top lists for the US today in the mens 100 meters at Worldathletics.org. For some strange reason they don't even show Bolings 10.20 in the 100 meters? I'm sure if he ran the 800 it would be listed. Maybe that's next. What a joke. He is not a 400 meters guy.
 

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Great video about Matthew Boling from the time he was a kid. Boling was born to run. Let's hope he lives up to his potential in
the 100 and 200 meters!


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Matthew Boling // Documentary Short​

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How many athletes have run sub 10.00, sub 20.00, sub 45.00 and long jumped 27 feet? I'm thinking it's not too many.
 

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I'll make a Boling prediction:
If you look at the US Olympic Trials there is a good 3 day break between the final of the 400m and the opening round of the 200m. It would make sense for him to enter the 200m as well as the 400m just in case something goes wrong in the 400 - he would then still have the opportunity to make the team via the 200. Boling, however, does not currently have an automatic qualifying time of 20.30 for the 200 and his best legal time in the qualifying window is a 20.52. There's no guarantee that time will make the field. Look for him to run a 200m race in the next two weeks. If conditions are good and he's just recently started up his speed training phase, then I predict he PRs in the 200m.

If he does that he'll go into the 400m trials strong, fast, and confident. I think he'll have a decent shot of making one of the three individual spots and definitely will make the final 6 which will justify him getting to at least run the preliminary heat in the men's 4x400m as well as the mixed relay. I'll predict he comes away from the Olympics with two gold medals and an outside shot of possibly winning an individual. I think there is also a good chance that after the Olympics he could PR in the 100m as well.
 

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I'll make a Boling prediction:
If you look at the US Olympic Trials there is a good 3 day break between the final of the 400m and the opening round of the 200m. It would make sense for him to enter the 200m as well as the 400m just in case something goes wrong in the 400 - he would then still have the opportunity to make the team via the 200. Boling, however, does not currently have an automatic qualifying time of 20.30 for the 200 and his best legal time in the qualifying window is a 20.52. There's no guarantee that time will make the field. Look for him to run a 200m race in the next two weeks. If conditions are good and he's just recently started up his speed training phase, then I predict he PRs in the 200m.

If he does that he'll go into the 400m trials strong, fast, and confident. I think he'll have a decent shot of making one of the three individual spots and definitely will make the final 6 which will justify him getting to at least run the preliminary heat in the men's 4x400m as well as the mixed relay. I'll predict he comes away from the Olympics with two gold medals and an outside shot of possibly winning an individual. I think there is also a good chance that after the Olympics he could PR in the 100m as well.
I know we're all a little disappointed in what Boling has accomplished since setting the national high school 100m record. Of course we are. But here's something very positive I noticed:

He has not had one single setback year. He has improved in something every single season:
2020: Indoor 6.68pb, indoor 20.66 pb, 7.5 indoor long jump pb (Covid year - no outdoors)
2021: Indoor 6.64pb, indoor 20.19pb NCAA 200m indoor champion, 20.06 outdoor pb, 45.51 400m indoor pb, 8.07 long jump pb
2022: indoor 6.56pb, 19.92 200m pb, 100m 9.98pb, 8.25 long jump pb,
2023: indoor 20.12pb NCAA 200m indoor champion, 45.17 400m outdoor pb, 2 outdoor World Championship Gold Medals
2024: indoor 45.47 400m pb, outdoor 44.98 400m pb So Far

every. single. year. he. has. improved. fact.


Considering he ran an ungodly number of races in college and never sustained any serious injury is very positive. I'd say he's more likely to be a volcano that is about to explode than an athlete that is just going to fade out.

More predictions:
2025: he'll focus again on the 400m for the world championships
2026: Off-year - use to rest and compete in very few races. Maybe chase a PR at the end of the season
2027 -2029: One Olympic and Two World Championship years he'll focus on the 100m and 200m races - Hooray!!
2030: Long Jump, lol!!!
 

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It just occurred to me by looking at the title of this thread that Boling might be in very rare company as a guy to break the 10 second barrier in the 100, the 20 second barrier in the 200 and the 45 second barrier in the 400. I'm not sure how many other guys have done this but it can't be many.
 
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