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 a headwind in Kingston. So we know he’s strong.
Recently in Doha, Asafa Powell clocked 9.75 wind aided in the heats. See? It just goes to prove you run faster when relaxed! Remember Rieti’s 9.74? Later, he ran 9.81 in the finals.
And lets not forget Tyson Gay’s 19.41 straight 200 meter world record best in Manchester, with his first 100m in 9.88!
With three other sub 10-second runners in the field, we know Usain will push, but how much?
The fans will certainly feel cheated if he runs a 10.01! Just like Carl Lewis in the Long Jump when he passed on his last 4 jumps at 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Americans were booing their fellow American!
Usain Bolt Daegu South Korea 9.86 100 meter Video
UPDATE: Check back on this site in a few hours for the latest Video of Usain Bolt’s 9.86 100 meters in Daegu South Korea.
Wind : +0.1m/s
Bolt looked stiff. Tyson Gay did 9.88 enroute 200m straight in Manchester on Sunday. Tyson commented on the interview that ‘everybody has a bad day sometimes’ when asked about beating Usain; it sounds like he…well. Tommie Smith was in Manchester and boy he looked good. By the by, I saw the 2012 London Official Mascots for the first time on TV today. They have made a cartoon where the mascots appear and in the cartoon there’s a pic of Usain in his arrow position on the wall as well. I don’t know if you have seen the mascots yet, but when you see,don’t worry, you haven’t taken anything inappropriate.
Sports experts and observers believe that Usain Bolt will lower the 100 meter standard below 9.40 seconds. Bolt believes that he can lower the standard to 9.40 seconds, but no further. I feel that Bolt may lower the 100 meter record to around 9.48-9.50 seconds, and no further. I base this on the fact that he has much room for improvement in his reaction time and his initial 30 meter segment of the race. However, from 40-100 meters, I don’t see how he could siphon more time from the record. His technique from the 40-100 meter segment is superb. Bolt has logged the highest top-end speeds recorded and maintains his form without losing speed. Though, if Bolt improves his reaction time and initial surge, he might pare the record down .1 seconds to 9.48.
Your analysis is very good: start has to be improved; he said that himself on BBC on Saturday when he talked to Michael Johnson. There is room for improvement in his start, but is there physiological ability to do it. You look at Hary and that was perfect. Bolt cannot do it.
Andy agreed but I thought Gay had the fastest 10m split ever recorded?
https://speedendurance.com/2009/08/12/usain-bolt-tyson-gay-and-the-fastest-10-meter-split-recorded/
0.80 but it was wind assisted
In the recent Men’s 100 meter World Championship in August 2009, Bolt had a 20 meter segment where he took 1.61 seconds to travel 20 meters. I believe it was from the 50-70 meter juncture. During this same race and same 20 meter segment, Gay took 1.63 seconds to travel the same 20 meters. Those are the fastest legal splits I know of. There may be wind-blown efforts that surpass these.
Getting back to the Armin Hary reference, it has been stated that Hary underwent scientific scrutiny to assess his “reaction time” prowess. The results of the study claimed that Hary reacted over 4 times as rapidly to stimulus than the average human being, (.03 seconds to .13 seconds). One can only imagine what Bolt could do if he possessed the type of quick starts that Hary did. Really, there is no excuse for being a poor starter in any sprint race. That is something that can be learned through practice and repetition. At least Bolt has an excuse, he is unusually tall and lanky. Gay is about average height and is a worse starter than Bolt. Gay wins many of his races with his top-end speed, (only, it doesn’t work against Bolt, who is faster).
I’m going to let the cat out of the bag.
The Armin Hary analysis was covered in detail in Bud Winter’s The ROCKET SPRINT START book, to be re-released this summer. The original 1964 copy is being updated, and I’m the technical editor for this project.
http://www.budwinter.com/books/
My apologies: I am being unclear. Not only his=Hary’s, reaction time, but ‘the way he got off the blocks’ is something that Bolt can never do. Basically he was ‘a starter’.Bolt is not.
There can be excuses for a poor performance for getting out of the blocks. I believe that the basic learning period of how to do it properly is when you are at 12-15-16; if it is not done properly then, I think it can take a long time to get it straightened.The reaction time is vital, but also the way you leave the blocks.