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Share What does Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay have to do with Muhammad Ali? Simple. With Tyson not eligible for Team USA for the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, you have to ask when will Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay meet again? The 2012 London Olympics? Can Zurich (i.e. the biggest meet after the World [...]
Share Obinna Metu is a Business Management undergraduate student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His personal best time for 100 meters is 10.16 seconds set in 2008. Unlike a majority of talented African runners, and especially sprinters, Obinna Metu elected to stay home and not go to the NCAA. In 2007, G4S launched an [...]
Share If you liked the article How much Horsepower does Usain Bolt Generate?, you’ll love this article. How much Horsepower does Usain Bolt Generate? The short answer is 2165 Watts. Divide that by 746 watts per horsepower and you get 2.9 HP, very close to 3 horsepower. For a comparison, assuming 1kg to a height [...]
Share With all the talk about Football’s 40 yard dash, Basketball’s 75 feet 3/4 court sprint, and Baseball’s 60 yard dash, let’s take a look at some obscure world record or world best SHORT racing distances. Swimming has their version of the 50 meter “splash and dash”. Here are the world records or world best [...]
Share Is it my imagination, or are we seeing a rash of taller athletes, at least in men? I’m not only referring to Usain Bolt who is 6 feet 5 inches (1.95m). There are plenty of track athletes over 6 feet 3 inches (1.90m) such as 800m specialist David Rudisha from Kenya, 800/1500 runner Andrew [...]
Share Time for some clarifications on last week’s article On Top End Speed and Speed Endurance. In the article Usain Bolt 100m 10 meter Splits and Speed Endurance, I wrote at the time 0.83 was the fastest record split before Usain Bolt ran 0.82 (from 50-80m) at the 2008 Beijing OG. He subsequently ran 0.81 [...]
Share I’ve always said the Relay is like the Irving Berlin song… Anything Goes… The 4x400m meter relay at the 2010 World Indoor Championships (WIC) in Doha were no exception. Every time you line up for the finals, you have to believe you can win or medal. It doesn’t matter if you are sandwiched between [...]
Share It wasn’t long ago when Puma signed Usain Bolt back in 2003 as a 17 year old. Puma tried to capitalize on the success after his famous 9.69 and 19.30 in Beijing 2008, but the only “Usain Bolt” merchandise available was his famous signature Bolt Arms lightning bolt pose. Even after Berlin 2009, he [...]
Share SOURCE: from telegraph.co.uk In his first race in 42 days since being ordered to rest by his doctor, the triple Olympic champion returned with bang at Thursday night’s Samsung Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, triumphing in 9.82sec to equal Asafa Powell’s fastest time in the world this year in Rome. Moments later, he was [...]
Share In 1956, Bud Winter of San Jose State University and Speed City fame published a landmark book titled So You Want to be a Sprinter. It was updated in 1973 and became foundation for many coaches back then who would later become world class coaches. Those coaches include Usain Bolt’s coach Glen Mills, Frank [...]
Share Anyone who watches Usain Bolt before any race will notice he is loose and confident before every race. In a big pressure race of the Olympics or World Championships, he’s playing and smiling to the crowd, while others are focused, staring at the finish line or staring at their belly buttons. Asafa Powell, who [...]
Share The 2010 Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships Meeting is a warm-up for the next outdoor track World Championships in 2011. Any time Usain Bolt runs, the whole world watches. What’s he going to run? Weather permitting, that is. Bolt’s first race of the season in mid-February was a 19.56 world leading time for the 200m into [...]
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400 meters: Forget Usain Bolt, Here is Jermaine Gonzales
Share What do you get when you have Usain Bolt as a teammate, Glen Mills as the head coach with former 400 meter Olympian Bert Cameron as a coach? Coupled that with being a taller than average height for a sprinter (1.90m or 6 foot 3 inches)? Ecco Jermaine Gonzales… Jermaine Gonzales ran 44.63 last [...]