kabira Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Last 100 m it was Blake v/s Bolt. and I seriously thought Blake is going to win it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akshayxyz Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Imagine what would be scene like in 4x100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jairamesh Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Frenchman choked yet again. Man them French really are useless Frenchman overachieved, the only white man in the field. :giggle: He is also the only whiteman (and non-black) to run 100m in less than 10 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akshayxyz Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Funny thing, people are talking more about - had he not eased off in last few meters, he could have beaten WR - than - he is the first one to successfully defend 200m olympic gold, and obviously first one to defend both 100m and 200m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooda Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 He would not have beaten WR, he knew that thats why he eased off a little, you could see him checking the time as he was finishing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
India-KXIP fan Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Definitely the greatest till now. His record in 100m will stand at least another 10 years and 200m about 4. He may improve 200m. I reckon by 2030 sprinters will be getting below 9 secs due to improved legal and illegal performance enhancers. Also Jamaica's team for relay is crazy, Bolt and Blake! Powell etc not bad either. That 20 year old bronze medalist was weaker (physically) than others, another 2 years he will become a genuine contender to win. He can improve alot. They should get him on the roids (or hgh or whatever they use) asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precambrian Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Lol US media now moaning how a decathlon winner is a greater athlete than Usain Bolt... http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-hersh-track-20120810,0,6920440.story How do you measure greatness? By two events that lasted less than 30 seconds combined? By one 10-part event that ground on for 25 hours over two days? About 45 minutes after Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the Olympic track title he thought was necessary to call himself a legend, Ashton Eaton of the U.S. became the latest to win the title that has gained legendary calling in the Olympics and the sport. Bolt is the reigning world's greatest athlete, small letters and capital achievement. Eaton is the current World's Greatest Athlete, capital letters courtesy of a Swedish king 100 years ago. PHOTOS: London Olympics, Day 13 A specialist and a generalist. World-record holders both. One now has five gold medals in two Olympics. The other one in one. Bolt, 25, is an athlete for the contemporary world, with its short attention spans and admiration of outsized egos. Twice in a half-hour, he urged reporters to mention his Twitter name, as if 140 characters were enough to convey the dimension he gave himself. "I am now a living legend," Bolt said. Eaton, a year younger, is an athlete for an older, more contemplative and dignified age, one that did not need its entertainment chopped up into nine and 19-second doses, one that would not have been inclined to go along on Bolt's ego trip. "If I really felt like the world's greatest athlete, I would have to get 10 perfect events, and I know that is not possible," Eaton said. "For me to consider myself the world's greatest athlete, I would have to amaze myself in every event, but I also don't want to discredit what King Gustav said to Jim Thorpe." The story may be apocryphal, but it is upon apocrypha that legends often are built. The first Olympic decathlon took place in Stockholm in 1912. After Thorpe won it, King Gustav V of Sweden told him, "Sir, you are the World's Greatest Athlete." That sobriquet has been applied to all Olympic decathlon champions since. "By virtue of his winning here, Ashton is the World's Greatest Athlete," said one of his predecessors, 1996 Olympic decathlon champion Dan O'Brien. "Bolt is the world's fastest man. He can have that title." Victory in Thursday's 200 meters made Bolt the first runner to win the 100 and 200 in consecutive Olympics. He did it here by running six races over six days, an aggregate of just 900 meters. "That is a lot of work for a sprinter," O'Brien said. There was no irony in O'Brien's voice. He said it in a way meant to maximize appreciation of what Bolt had accomplished. Bolt's winning time of 19.32 seconds matched the fourth-fastest in history, a list topped by Bolt's world record 19.19. He had won Sunday's 100 in 9.63 seconds, a time second only to his world record 9.58. "There wasn't a doubt in my mind," Bolt said Thursday. "After the 100 meters, I was really confident." Decathletes have little interest or energy for such flamboyance. They drag themselves through the last event, the 1,500 meters, and then all join in a celebration of having survived the two days. Bolt finds training for races longer than 200 meters so painful he decries all talk of his moving up to the 400. That is the distance decathletes cover in the fifth event of Day 1. The sprints are wondrously easy to comprehend. Fastest one to the tree, the corner, around the block or the finish line in a stadium filled with 80,000 people. The appeal of seeing that question answered quickly makes the races pure Hollywood. "The decathlon is always overshadowed by the glamour events," O'Brien said. The decathlon is esoterica, pages from a medieval manuscript. Its winner is determined by a scoring system that seeks a form of relativity in assessing performances in the 10 events but might as well be the theory of relativity to spectators. Eaton scored 8,869 points, under the world-record 9,039 he amassed at the U.S. Olympic trials in June but 198 more than runner-up Trey Hardee, his U.S. teammate. "He is the best ever," Hardee said, referring to Eaton's decathlon record. "That wasn't the last time you are going to see 9,000. I think Ashton is going to do it once a year until we get to Rio" — the 2016 Olympics. Nine thousand or 19-point-something? In this case, as Bolt was so eager to say, there is no doubt. Not in 2012, when two days is from here to eternity, and smaller is necessarily greater. Must be a test kirkut fanatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raghav_12 Posted August 10, 2012 Author Share Posted August 10, 2012 ^ US people are jealous of Jamaican Success. Earlier Carl Lewis brought that drugs aspect without having anything to substantiate and now this crap.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
India-KXIP fan Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 ^ US people are jealous of Jamaican Success. Earlier Carl Lewis brought that drugs aspect without having anything to substantiate and now this crap.. Ofcourse they're jealous. But probably everyone takes legal and illegal performance enhancers but Jamaicans are genetically superior so quicker. There are many random tests but WADA is always one step behind. Some get caught most don't, drugs are advanced. The drastic improvements in time aren't just because of technique. Also alot better legal performance enhancers now. Everyone takes them, cancels out. Same with other sports like cycling. Look at Contador, 2 time tour France champ later got caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swing_n_Speed Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Frenchman overachieved, the only white man in the field. :giggle: He is also the only whiteman (and non-black) to run 100m in less than 10 seconds. Actually his PB and SB are both much better than his actual final performance. Infact he ran faster in the heats. While Bolt and Blake brought in their A game running Season Bests with third placed Weir running a Personal Best, this choker Lemaitre ran his season worst. He kinda had a shot at bronze until Weir pulled off something no one expected a time of 19.80. For the record 19.80 is also Lemaitre's PB, but he achieved that only in 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swing_n_Speed Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 ^ US people are jealous of Jamaican Success. Earlier Carl Lewis brought that drugs aspect without having anything to substantiate and now this crap.. The yanks also had a problem with the Chinese swimmer Ye Shiven stating that her feat was impossible cos she's only 16....... until one of their own Katie Ledecy won the 800 m and she's only 15. Off-course the yanks shut-up after that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swing_n_Speed Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Lol US media now moaning how a decathlon winner is a greater athlete than Usain Bolt... http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-hersh-track-20120810,0,6920440.story I kinda agree though decathletes are the ultimate athletes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 US win mens 110 hurdles Gold and Silver, yet no one gives a feck. What a difference those hurdles make. :hahaha: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raghav_12 Posted August 10, 2012 Author Share Posted August 10, 2012 Ofcourse they're jealous. But probably everyone takes legal and illegal performance enhancers but Jamaicans are genetically superior so quicker. There are many random tests but WADA is always one step behind. Some get caught most don't, drugs are advanced. The drastic improvements in time aren't just because of technique. Also alot better legal performance enhancers now. Everyone takes them, cancels out. Same with other sports like cycling. Look at Contador, 2 time tour France champ later got caught. In any case Jamaican system is going to be much cleaner than American one. I have read somewhere that in US running/sprint potentials are identified at school level itself and agents start pumping drugs in their bodies from that time onwards. In that system, however honest athlete you are, drug mafia comes after you as soon as as they see any potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Outsider Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Lol US media now moaning how a decathlon winner is a greater athlete than Usain Bolt... http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-hersh-track-20120810,0,6920440.story Must be a test kirkut fanatic. ^ US people are jealous of Jamaican Success. Earlier Carl Lewis brought that drugs aspect without having anything to substantiate and now this crap.. Come on! Ever tried a triathlon in your lives to deride on the decathlon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jind Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Come on! Ever tried a triathlon in your lives to deride on the decathlon? looks like you may have considering your tone? I know what you were trying to convey,however, a triathlon and a decathlon are quite different in their nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jind Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 US win mens 110 hurdles Gold and Silver' date=' yet no one gives a feck. What a difference those hurdles make. :hahaha:[/quote'] lol true..The 100m is the most anticipated race and the winner gets the title of 'The Fastest Man Alive" Therein lies the difference and the thrill me thinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Outsider Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 looks like you may have considering your tone? It's not relevant is it? Point is that running 100 meters in the fastest time proves one aspect of your athletic ability, but a triathlon or a decathlon offers completely different challenges and I found it disconcerting that people should deride those challenges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jind Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 It's not relevant is it? Lulz...well I thought you may share your experience if you had competed in it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Regarding Jamaica and the drug thingy, Carl Lewis was wrong to suspect an entire nation of athletes with no evidence. Bolt is justified in his response. That doesn't mean Americans are jealous or US is a drug infested country. That is no different from the generalization that Carl Lewis was making about the Jamaicans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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