Usain Bolt is the World's Fastest Man (was Justin Gatlin is the World's Fastest Man)

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Justin Gatlin is not the World's Fastest Man

HOLY SHIT USAIN BOLT MY MAN

lol wau

9.58 ! Holy crap!

Can't imagine how fast he'll go when he starts trying.

HE IS TRYING.

Yeah, I'm getting a bit tired of this conflation of effortless-style with not-even-bothered.

is it just on my connection where the bbc replay is fine up until the actual 9.58 seconds of the run whereupon it freezes twice?

That's Usain Bolt bending time.

Amazing.

Until tonight, I think this was my favourite Bolt run of the year - 19.59 200m in 15C, pouring rain and into a headwind in Lausanne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWPiD66c_Q4&feature=related

A week or two later, he set a world's best for 150m in similar conditions on a makeshift street track in Manchester (passing 100m in 9.90s) after practically no warm-up.

he seems so much superior to anybody else ever that i think i might feel a bit gutted, in a funny sort of way, if someone came out and matched/beat him in the next decade or so... like, we all have a finite time and to see THE FASTEST MAN EVER wd be quite something. i mean, there has to be a point where that's it...no faster, physics say so, and i'd like to be around to see it and i'd like it to be the bolt. i'm rambling.

^^^
^^^
luv this guy

Holy fucking shit. 19.19!

Jesus look at the fuckin' margin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1yCU3OTbqQ

So I tried really hard and now I'm really tired.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/aug/20/usain-bolt-world-record-athletics-200m

doping whispers have begun.

It's track. They're always doping whispers.

exactly

daaaang i love this guy

Yeah it would be supremely disappointing that he was doping, but until he tests positives or gets Balco'd I'm going to operate under the assumption that he's just a fucking freak and enjoy this.

I don't shit about track, but it is remarkable how much bigger he looks than the competition, like longer. Is his stride demonstratively longer than most sprinters?

Yeah he's fucking huge! 6'5 and 200lbs! It's positively freakish that someone that huge could get out of the blocks that quick.

That said he's been a world class sprinter since his junior track days so it's not like he just came out of nowhere or anything.

very likely PED aided:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/BoltSB200m.gif

2 seconds faster in 8 years = "very likely PED aided" ?

Not to mention that he was 15 in 2001.

I'm sure you track virtually any runners #s from their teenage years and they would feature a pretty significant drop (otherwise these guys would set world records in high school ya know.)

I feel sorry for the South African woman(?) though. Supposedly even if she isn't a dude, they might disqualify her for having an unfair advantage due to testoserone imbalance type of things. It's like, bloody hell, she's only working with what she's got. By that rate you should disqualify Bolt for being physically superior to the other dudes in his races.

<3 this guy tho, seriously.

just for a little perspective, his performances are like breaking the WR in the marathon by 7 minutes. no record has ever been broken so incredibly by a non-PED athlete (barring FloJo who retired immediately after Seoul as she was already drawing the interest of advanced PED testers).

it's like if Babe Ruth's records were suddenly eclipsed by a margin of 10-13 homeruns many years later.

incredible how the guy he makes the stagger up on within the first few strides ends up taking silver and the two who try and go with him fade out of the medals.

Did he run the 200m on Chicken McNuggets like he did the 100m final?

"just for a little perspective"

HIS LEGS ARE ALSO LONGER THAN THE OTHERS' - HE MUST BE CHEATING!

(stop whining. he's being tested more than the others already)

I kind of feel sorry for him. He's got to keep smashing records by as big a margin or people will get blasé. Even today's amazing feat didn't have the thrill of the 100m for me.

The ridiculousness of the times aside, the impressive thing is that he is destroying everyone else in the field. Even if he is doping, I would imagine most (if not all) of the guys around him are using the exact same stuff, and they are not anywhere near as fast.

Once he reduces his current records further I can see him trying the 400m although i would like to see him try the long jump with that speed. A total biological freak.

HIS LEGS ARE ALSO LONGER THAN THE OTHERS' - HE MUST BE CHEATING!

(stop whining. he's being tested more than the others already)

― StanM, Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:00 PM (17 minutes ago)

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lol!

just for a little perspective, his performances are like breaking the WR in the marathon by 7 minutes. no record has ever been broken so incredibly by a non-PED athlete

while this is true, there's also the fact that this guy is so physically different from other guys running the 100/200m races. Basically the common wisdom was that big guys couldn't be short distance sprinters, which may in fact not be as true as once thought. Maybe in 5 years time all top 100m runners will be over 6' and run under 9.70. Not that I actually know a whole lot of stuff about this, I'm just throwing this out there.

he is not the first tall sprinter ever btw.

E.g. Linford Christie was over 6'3" I think.

quite a few of the best sprinters of the past 20 years are in the 6'2" to 6'4" range. being 6'5" is not an advantage. Being part of a PED program, on the other hand, is.

didn't scientists work out that 9.48 was the physical limit for human sprinting?

ok I guess I assumed it was unusual because a lot of the media keep talking about how unusual it is for somebody so tall to have success in the shorter sprint distances

It's definitely unusual for someone of his height to run 9.58 for the 100m.

I have always been told its the way he coordinates those strides. Or some such. I've no idea but its been great to hear Michael Johnson commentating on these races.

The margin by which he defeats his opponents makes me think they couldn't be enhanced. However if it ever turned out he did we could be witnessing the beginning of the end of a sport.

i'm def not new to T&F but this is exactly what Bolt reminds me of here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkpTsAmv8XQ

Yeah, its totally going to break my heart if this dude is Ben Johnson-ing it. There's a joy to his demeanor that I haven't seen since Michael Johnson. Like "Dude, I just want to go FAST!!!!"

goddamn just legalise all performance-enhancing drugs and be done with it

sorry that's a bit challopsy but i think it could trigger a succession of events which clean out doping more or less entirely

maybe i am dense but what is 'PED'?

Performance enhancing donuts

more importantly, this succession of events will prove to be a macabre and compelling theatre of the grotesque, of human defiance, of innocence lost and refound...basically it will be Great Drama

I don't want them to be legal, but I don't care that people use them. If that makes sense

xp lj

A Great Drama Indeed

yeah, I decided a while ago that I'm basically ok with cheating in sports.

OR, PEGs

oh, donuts. got you.

i <3 usain btw.

I was reading somewhere that if an athlete like Lebron James (6' 8", 250 lbs) had focused on running this whole life instead of team sports then he would have been a similar running freak. Of course he probably wouldn't have been as stinking rich as he is now.

We'll never know, but it's interesting to think about.

It seems unlikely, since LeBron runs like a duck (he's incredibly fast despite this, but this would hold him back as a sprinter). What's freakish about Lebron is his strength, power, and leaping ability. And of course he has a very high skill level too.

"ok I guess I assumed it was unusual because a lot of the media keep talking about how unusual it is for somebody so tall to have success in the shorter sprint distances"

Yeah he's not just tall, he's really big. It's very unusual and obv a longer stride is an advantage.

I have no idea if dude is juicing or not. Track & Field obv does not have a good history in this regard, but barring a positive test (and dude is probably pissing in a cup right now) I'm going to assume that he's no dirtier than anyone else he's running against and I guess Shasta didn't just notice that he just basically beat those guys by about 10ms at 200ms. The other option is to never enjoy any of these accomplishments which is something I only do when Barry Bonds is involved. :-P

he's been freakishly "ahead of all his peers" good his whole life, which leads me to assume he's more or less clean.

I noticed that a lot of the American runners tend to have bulky chests and arms - are there any advantages to this? stronger core?

One story that is not getting traction in the MSM is this one, let me see if I can get a good aggregate view:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=methylxanthine

In short: 2 weeks ago, roughly 50% of the M&W Jamaican Track team test positive for illegal PEDs but are allowed to race due te to the fact that the substance in question has recently been banned.

It shows that the athletes are staying one step ahead of the drug tests, as soon as a substance is banned, they move on to another PED that is not tested for.

And remember folks, there is still no test for HGH despite claims to the contrary.

I guess Shasta didn't just notice that he just basically beat those guys by about 10ms at 200ms.

um: Usain Bolt is the World's Fastest Man (was Justin Gatlin is the World's Fastest Man)

Performance enhancing donuts

Wait, there are donuts that's don't enhance performance?!

xxp Was he one of the 50% or is he just guilty of being also Jamaican at this point? Jamaica does have a pretty dirty history though, can't deny that.

xp Yeah Steve once he quits scandal ridden Flo-Jo style and is dead at 34 or whatever I will gladly agree that he's dirty. That's good enough for me. Until then though the fact that's he faster than everyone else isn't evidence of guilt by itself.

don't think that bolt was one of those, iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ios9YYUgI

Performance enhancing donuts

This SNL sketch to thread: http://www.hulu.com/watch/2345/saturday-night-live-little-chocolate-donuts

I heart this photo

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01466/berlino_usain_bolt_1466421c.jpg

i heart usain

This is fun too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTk17C8jL5w

@danielleAalexa why i shouldnt think ur a hater and when i need to look hot i do so back up cool i am a simple youth ok 7:34 PM May 16th via web in reply to danielleAalexa

:-(

Wha happened? Coverage of this event is almost non-existent here.

made a false start, kinda mental news rules mean INSTANT DISQUALIFICATION.

Oh DQ. Bummer.

Tbf this rule change was made pretty soon after the 2009 world champs, he's raced under the new rules many many times since. Mental error.

Brilliant run in the 4x100 so he's going home with two golds and a world record and a big smile.

I really hope all the big sprinters manage to get fit at the same time for the Olympics next year.

im working as hard as i can get off my back

wtf yanks way to take out the opposition

the world championship final is in about 15 minutes

if you put £33 on him winning with bwin you will be the recipient of £34 before supper

What are this panel dressed as

P close tbf

the rain probably took a lil bit off the times idk

Yeah it does

Yeah only the fifth fastest time ever. How disappointing lol.

Sorry I was looking at a weird list. It's 17th.

I was gonna say, i mean im p sure i ran a :78 last time i sprinted for a bus, everyone runs .78 now its 2013