His agent needs to have a word - tell him to take a leaf out of that pole vaulter’s book - 0.01 sec at a time Usain, you need to make a living mate.
Sergei Bubka?
No discussion of Caster Semenya, women’s 800 meter world champion?
I think Bolt has a sub 19 second 200 within his reach.
On a different note, watching the women’s high jump tonight was an interesting study in style and personalities.
It seems like a clusterF, that’s for sure - IAAF announcing the gender testing issue just prior to her running the final. There’s some good discussion on the matters in hand so to speak on the science in sport blog Chez Guevara linked to above. It’s been quite funny hearing some commentators talk about it, obviously failing to comprehend just what the problem is here. It takes how long to work out whether she’s a man or a woman, five months ?!?
One thing that did strike me about the sex-determination procedure is that if it truly is so involved, and requires a triangulation of opinion between a geneticist, gynaecologist, pharmacologist etc., doesn’t that open the door to generally query the ‘sex’ of any female power athlete? Every woman lining up in the 1 and 200m is ‘unusually’ muscled - that’s why they’re athletes. e.g. say a female sprinter produces unusually high levels of testosterone, almost to the level of a man - is a gender investigation warranted? It seems if the IAAF are prepared to acknowledge sex as such a multi-faceted and complex phenomenon then it could be a potential can of worms for them.
Phosphocreatinine threshold. At somewhere between 7–9 seconds, depending on the athlete and training, the switch from purely anaerobic metabolism to utilizing glycogen starts. In the longer 400 m sprint, the second 100 m is the fastest of the race because the athlete is already at full speed and glycolitic metabolism is in full effect.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-track-world-championships21-2009aug21,0,3053942.story
He dropped the 200 by .11. He is in a rut.
Nowadays ,I can not help being suspicious.
Wow, 19.19?
Amazing.
The most fascinating rivalry in sprinting today is between Bolt(100) and Bolt(200). Traditionally the 100m winner is considered the “fastest man” but sometimes the 200m is actually run at a faster pace; for example when Michael Johnson smashed the record some years back. In Beijing Bolt’s 19.30 was faster than his 9.69. Here Bolt(100) got his revenge and his 9.58 is just a touch faster than his 19.19.
I just saw this.
Lol!
I’d be surprised if this factor wasn’t at the back of everybody’s mind, if it isn’t at the front.
We’ve got two choices really. Believe in him, but feel stupid later if he isn’t running clean, or assume from the outset that the guy is on something or other. I’ll take the first option.
Jamaica’s 400m coach is one Bert Cameron, former world champion over that distance. He fancies Bolt to step up to one lap in at some time in the future. Bolt himself doesn’t like 400m, but he has allegedly promised Cameron that he will do the distance, and run 42.5 into the bargain. The current world record is held by Michael Johnson at 43.18.
Here are the official timing photos of Bolt’s 100m and 200m world records.
A couple of things I noticed: one, Bolt managed to adopt incredibly similar positions while corssing the line in both races, (albeit with the opposite foot on the ground). He even managed to plant a foot right on the line for that comedy giant-clown-shoe effect. 
Two, in the 100m final, 7 of the 8 athletes finished sub-10 seconds. (the 6th and 7th had their times rounded up to 10.00 though). Has that ever happened before in a 100m race?
And while I’m on the topic of photo finishes, here’s the 110m hurdles photo. Tough one to split, especially as Trammell (in second place) has his head covering his torso.
Oh hey, thanks for those - I love the finish camera shots. That’s really cool they put them online. Didn’t realise they round the times up, either; Bolt’s 9.58 is more of a 9.572 by the looks of it. Mental.
It seems silly that Bolt, probably the best man at running away there has ever been, appears so nice you’d like him to stick around. Maybe he should start doing whole laps.
I just noticed the honking great stitches they had to put in the 200m photo so Bolt would be on the same page as the rest of the athletes. It jumps straight from 19.3 to about 19.8. I repeat: mental.
Yep, I love looking at the photo finish shots as well. The offical site has links to them when you click on the results each day. I must admit I missed the blue dotted lines first where chunks were cut out of the photo - I thought “I’m sure Bolt won by further than that…” :smack:
And yes, times are rounded up, but if it’s dead on the “zero” thousandth then it stays down. Bolt’s time looks like a 19.190 to me. (The electronic clock initially stopped on 19.20.)