World record!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Proper Knob
0.11s is the largest increment the 100m has dropped since electronic timing was introduced. Hardly a small increment.

You guys are missing my point.

Assuming he knows he can beat the WR on any given day, can it be possible that he is holding back enough so that there's a good chance he'll get the WR again at the next meet?

Originally posted by Crowley
You guys are missing my point.

Assuming he knows he can beat the WR on any given day, can it be possible that he is holding back enough so that there's a good chance he'll get the WR again at the next meet?

It is very likely.

Oh well, at least I would aim to that goal.

Originally posted by Crowley
You guys are missing my point.

Assuming he knows he can beat the WR on any given day, can it be possible that he is holding back enough so that there's a good chance he'll get the WR again at the next meet?

A possibility, but i doubt it.

The guy is incredibly wealthy now, whats an extra $100,000 to him every year?

I just don't think 'holding back', as you put it, is that easy in the 100m or 200m. He's good, but no that good.

He's lowered the 100m record by 1.64% (inc Beijing), that's the equivalent of running the 400m in 42.47s.

It had better not be another Ben Johnson saga ....

Flo-Jo's record is pretty suspect too.

Originally posted by Crowley
You guys are missing my point.

Assuming he knows he can beat the WR on any given day, can it be possible that he is holding back enough so that there's a good chance he'll get the WR again at the next meet?

I'm sure Bolt's top priority right now is to run as fast as possible and set a record that will stand for decades to come.

In sports, you can't assume anything -- who knows what kind of injuries may occur? - and who knows whether you're at your peak and will never be as good as you are on that day. He probably regretted easing up at last year's olympics.

Originally posted by divegeester
The guys an athletic phenomenon; I just hope it's not drugs.

That's a horrible thought - my kids worship him. I hope he's clean otherwise the world will give up on athletics.

Valerie Villi (NZ) world record womens shot put.. back to back world champ

Originally posted by galveston75
Bolt just sets a new world record in the 100m race. 9.58!!!!!!!!!!

Its scary when you think of it

10.43 metres every second or just over 23.3 miles per hour.

I think he may be able to do 9.4 seconds for the 100 meteres in due course

Originally posted by knightmeister
That's a horrible thought - my kids worship him. I hope he's clean otherwise the world will give up on athletics.

You really think the World would give up on athletics if a Jamaican sprinter tested positive for performance enhancers?

forget bolt breaking the world record, that pole fault chick not getting a medal, the dude competing in the woman's event, ireland (yes ireland) have a person in the mens 400m final.

shock of the meet i'm telling you. no, forget that it's the shock on the century.

😉

edit: i'll open the book on places 1-7, what odds do you want?

Originally posted by Crowley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzSpPaCIG0g

LOL

Originally posted by divegeester
The guys an athletic phenomenon; I just hope it's not drugs.

it's the drugs. dude is on stuff we probably can't even test for yet. just make sure they freeze a blood sample.

Originally posted by runninfiend
it's the drugs. dude is on stuff we probably can't even test for yet. just make sure they freeze a blood sample.

And has been on them since his mid-teens? Seems unlikely.

(I say mid-teens because he's been putting in ridiculous times for his age-group since he was about 16 - possibly before).