OT - Usain Bolt sets a 200m WR
August 20th, 2009 at 3:11 PM ^
Where's that dude who was talkinga bout how much faster Johnson was than Bolt?
August 20th, 2009 at 3:11 PM ^
Does that mean he runs his second 100 faster then his first 100? Since his world record !00m time was 9.61. He is ridiculous.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:16 PM ^
Well, he didn't have to start the second 100m from a standstill... that helps.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:17 PM ^
Jinx buy me a coke.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:28 PM ^
You'll have to catch me to take the money to buy the coke, and evidently I'm just a little bit quicker than you... so good luck!
August 20th, 2009 at 3:16 PM ^
Well yeah, he's running at top speed when he begins the second 100m, not standing still on starting blocks.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:10 PM ^
Educate yourself yo.
EDIT: ? I was clarifying the correct WR time that he ran.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:56 PM ^
This is also why a typical relay split time is faster than the same athlete running a dash of the same distance.
And (somewhat related) this is also why only the first swimmer in a relay can set the world record and not every swimmer.
Anyway, if you look at his splits, you see that the first 20m is ~0.1s slower than any other 20m interval. This is also true for many of the other sprinters in the final as well...
August 20th, 2009 at 3:11 PM ^
Didn't he break his own record today, which was 19.31 set at the 2008 Olympics?
August 20th, 2009 at 3:14 PM ^
Which I know because my boyfriend just ran into the living room to tell me to comment on that since he is too damn lazy and stubborn to get his own mgoname and I hope he reads this and gets the message.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:13 PM ^
Didn't he set the WR in Beijing? He beat his own record I think. Either way the man is absolutely amazing. I watched a track event that wasn't the Olympics for the first time today because of him.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:17 PM ^
I dont think hes used up his college eligibility yet, lets offer him a scholarship!
August 20th, 2009 at 3:48 PM ^
What a candidate for WR!! We can teach him how to catch. Remember Bobby Hayes??
August 20th, 2009 at 5:14 PM ^
Didn't you see the Kenny Mayne episode with him trying out for the giants? The pads weigh him down too much!
August 20th, 2009 at 3:21 PM ^
I realize that I misspoke in the original post. Yes, Bolt ran a 19.31 in Beijing, setting a new WR.
Oops.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:24 PM ^
In a span of two years, he has lowered his personal best in the 200 from 19.91 seconds to 19.19. This is Bonds-esque.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:33 PM ^
you mean it is like the way prices for government bonds are crashing? i agree.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:30 PM ^
It has to be; before Usain, the record was being broken by .01 seconds each time, and then here comes this guy who blows it up multiple times in a few years by not hundredths, but tenths of a second. There's no way its real; it's the same thing that happened with the home run record standing and people coming close, then all of a sudden Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa rocket past it. I call bullshit.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:42 PM ^
that has gone on in the last 5-6 years, track and field lost their marquee status in the Olympics and it is evident that you don't see it on primetime tv(though Phelps getting the attention played a role). The association would be stupid not to test Bolt. Bolt has taken every drug tests and passed with flying color. He's just that damn fast. After all, Ben Johnson got caught with Roids in the 80s. There are plenty of high profile track athletes who got busted with failed drug test.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:43 PM ^
Don't they test the racers immediately after every race?
August 20th, 2009 at 3:57 PM ^
but you're forgetting that most really good "designer" steroids are completely undetectable when they are used; they are designed so that the trace chemicals left after the degradation of testosterone or other sterols are broken down into things that aren't detected by today's testing; that's how many football and basketball players get away with taking steroids, is through "designer drugs".
August 20th, 2009 at 3:58 PM ^
Yes, they do a lot of testing, but there are ways around the tests. It's definitely possible he's using steroids, but I still think he's clean. The guy is just a born runner.
August 20th, 2009 at 5:56 PM ^
I can't believe a clean runner could shave 0.72 seconds off his personal best 200 time (and like 0.35 off his 100) in two years. That just doesn't happen. Bolt was just another world-class runner until the summer of 2008, when he morphed into a demigod.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:06 PM ^
has the world records for the fastest 200m at ages 15, 16, and 17. He ran a sub 20 at 17. People in track and field thought he COULD be a once in a generation talent a la say Carl Lewis. So he was never really "just another world-class runner."
That being said, I don't think anybody thought he could be a once in a century talent which I believe he is. I believe he will break his records and hold them for 30+ years.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:59 PM ^
Almost always. But there are a few "always test the athlete" situations. One of them is: The athlete sets a WR.
They don't test everybody all of the time though.
August 20th, 2009 at 5:18 PM ^
Look, I understand that he's very tall, but he is nowhere near as jacked up as most other sprinters are. IIRC he actually looked relatively normal size in the Olympics. I think it's natural ability. But that's just me.
August 20th, 2009 at 6:01 PM ^
I agree that his lanky frame makes it unlikely that he's using anabolic steroids, but there are many other PEDs out there, most of which aren't detectable by testing.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:54 PM ^
It's also possible that he's just a once in a century physical freak of nature.
Or at least, that's what I'd like to believe.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:34 PM ^
The question is, is he hiding any extra sexual organs anywhere?
August 20th, 2009 at 5:19 PM ^
We need a sex check. He may be a woman.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:11 PM ^
Funniest thing I've read on Mgo in recent memory
August 20th, 2009 at 3:36 PM ^
Where are the clown shoe pics?
August 20th, 2009 at 5:03 PM ^
on here, but HOLY FUCK that is fast! Steriods or not...wow. Plenty of sprinters used steroids and never came near these times. Unreal.
August 20th, 2009 at 6:04 PM ^
Don't know if you're refering to me or not Chitown, but I certainly made the comparison that had the Bolt at last years Olympics raced Johnson when he set the record, that Johnson would've won (which I still think). As it now (key word) stands I don't think Johnson would be able to hang with that 200m time and I'll be interested to see how Bolt does in the 400m.
Obviously Bolt is faster than he was a year ago, which is kind of the goal, to get faster. I also don't think anyone except him will beat this record for a long time - barring the use of performance enhancers of course.