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Share Maurice Wilson: Sprinting the Jamaican Way: Relay Technique, Drills & Strategies (DVD) This is part 3 of a 3 part series in reviewing Maurice Wilson’s 3 DVD set on Jamaican sprinting. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Maurice Wilson’s resume is impressive: Jamaican National Track & Field Team [...]
Share Anyone who has followed this blog will know I love relays. Why? Because anything goes. The 4x100m at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona was no exception. It was a shame to not see Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the Finals as a UK-France match up would have soared the ratings. Like [...]
Share Last year, Tasha Danvers interviewed Tyree Washington on her radio show. Great Britain’s Natasha “Tasha” Danvers is the Olympic bronze medalist from the 400m Hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It’s a long interview, almost 90 minutes long (you may want to fast forward the first four minutes). Tyree Washington has a special place [...]
Share At the 2010 Gibson Relays, Usain Bolt ran an impressive 400m anchor leg making up more than 20 meters, but it wasn’t enough to win against a strong University of Technology team. Bolt’s anchor leg split was 43.58 seconds. Listen to the crowd as 15,000 spectators stand and cheer on their feet as he [...]
Share Is there a preference on how to pass the baton blindly in a 4x100m relay? At the International level, Canada, USA & Jamaica all use the push pass. France, however, uses the upsweep pass. Once upon a time, France held the WR in the 4x100m Relay before the Americans dominated the event. That is, [...]
Share Interesting article from the IAAF Council Meeting notes, Monaco – 20 November, 2009. It states under the TRACK EVENTS: No more than three rounds for any event A preliminary qualification round of men’s and women’s 100m to include only unqualified athletes Relays spread over at least three days Semi-Finals and Finals in same session [...]
Share What the heck is an Icosathlon? The icosathlon is simply a Double Decathlon, formerly known as the “Double Deca”. When you think about it, Track and Field has 19 events without relays. So what’s the 20th event? A 800 meter race walk which was held in the original Decathlon? A 150 meters straightaway? Nope, [...]
Share Here is some history of the 4 x 100 meter world record progression. The first time the 40 second barrier was broken was in 1936 Berlin Olympics with Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper, and Frank Wykoff setting a WR in 39.8 seconds. At the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the 4x100m WR was 39.5 set [...]
Share I re-read Tommie Smith’s autobiography Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting) and he mentions in Chapter 2 FOUR times that he held 11 World Records concurrently. The "11 World Records" are also mentioned on his Bio on the inside of the back cover. But nowhere in the book does it list all [...]
Share During my prime running years, Pietro Mennea’s 200m WR was the holy grail. 19.72 was the 200m WR standard for 17 years. In fact, Pietro Mennea won the 200m 1980 Olympics in the Moscow Boycotted Olympics. He also won the Bronze medal at 1972 Munich Olympics at the same distance. Mennea competed in 4 [...]
Share NOTE: Some of my older guest posts on other Websites are now being shut down due to the economic climate. Thus I will present them here. How much do the tight indoor curves affect your performance? Even with the banked curves to counteract the centripetal forces, it does affect your stride length and stride [...]
Share Bill Bowerman is more famous for co-founding NIKE and coaching long distance runners, but he did coach sprinters and field events. I covered Harry Jerome and Otis Davis in previous articles. From his book Bill Bowerman’s High-Performance Training for Track and Field (Third Edition) he compares the training patterns of Stan Wright, Jim Bush, [...]
Share On September 28, 2009, a new book titled “From Vancouver To Athens (1954-2004)”.by Alpheus ‘Hawk’ Finlayson will be released in Bahamas. Why 1954? Because the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The first British Empire Games were held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1930, and it was renamed [...]
Share In my last article about the Harry Jerome, Bill Bowerman and the University of Oregon connection, I didn’t mention Otis Davis, the Rome 1960 400 meter and USA 4x400m Olympic Champion. I am currently in Rome, so there is a special connection every time I visit the Rome Olympic Stadium, whether it’s for the [...]
Share Imagine if someone said to the Jamaican 4x100m Team: “You can’t win, all you have is Usain Bolt”. Afterwards, in victory of course, Jamaica would reply: “All you need is Usain Bolt”. In Zurich, 45 minutes after his 9.81 100 meter victory, we finally get a chance to see Bolt run the Anchor. Bolt [...]
Share Usain Bolt 9.81 Weltklasse Zurich Video How fast will Usain Bolt run? How tired is this human after his 19.19 200m World Record? His “weak” 4x100m relay leg showed he was human after all! Will he just go for the win against fellow countryman Asafa Powell? UPDATE: Check back on this site in a [...]
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