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  • what bad luck in a way that this particular heat was a semi, he could have been the first sub 9.7 sprinter! But you just can't know such things. This is a ridiculous race though, amazing.

  • I think Asafa is as quick as Bolt, but where Bolt wins is after the first 60M Powell tends to slow down and give up, if he carries on the speed he produces when he starts and keeps it consistent he could be competing with Bolt properly and overtake Gay, Powell is a 9.6 runner, he just needs to be consistent

  • @dntmess91 It's not that he gives up, Powell just doesn't have the same top-end speed as Bolt and Gay, his specialty is and always has been his start. But I also think Powell has the potential to go sub 9.7

  • @phastman1994 yeah thats true, after the first 60M he just doesn't have that top end speed, your right. He is, definitely, no doubt, just needs that consistency

  • @dntmess91 yeah true, if he could perform like this under pressure he would've been a world and possibly Olympic champion already. This year is probably Powell's final chance become world champion, I'm goin for Bolt but it would be nice to see Powell take his first individual gold

  • He could have got into the 9.60's if he bothered those last few strides! Bet he regrets that, would have put him in a whole new league at the time, even now. Still love him, wish him and Gay push further otherwise for the next 5 years it's going to be a boring sport with Bolt so far ahead. Viva la sprinter!

  • Can you imagine what his time would be if he ran all the way through

  • I just realised he slowed down!

  • looking easy!

  • He is jogging before the finishing line, he could be faster for 0.05 seconds

  • @CJThaSavage TOTALLY AGREE !

  • He needs to fucking stop easing up and run through the line.

  • @CJThaSavage lol I agree but this race was actually only the heats which is why he eased up, he ran 9.78 (0.0m/s) in the final

  • His form is Beautiful...

  • It looks like the guy in lane 3 who keeps looking to his right is Bolt!

  • @bhunt16 HAHA! yeah! looks like bolt. but dude, bolt was then still only in 200m. he only started ranning 100m in 2008

  • TheRazzy99

    +1

  • he started easing down with 20m to go he could of probably run about 9.66.

  • Ehh not 9.66 but surely 9.71.

  • @LiveAthletics naw i think when you look at all the anchor finishes in powells relays you see the beast he is. i know that he is move but his top end is great and he can hold it very well. 9.6something to 9.70 would be about right i would say.

  • @TheRazzy99 Agreed

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  • He could have run much faster!

  • guess this doesnt matter much now that gay and bolt have both run under 9.7

  • I can guarantee Powell will run nowhere near 9:74 at berlin if he gets to the final

  • so stupid to relax at the end of the race... because he will never run that time ever again... should of ran that race as if its his last.... now that that is his fastest time ever... hes gotta spend the rest of his life saying "what if" . could of probubly been the record holder now.... stupid idiot

  • well to be honest yes he does do that in nearly every race but this was actually a heat for the final. So he prob didnt even think he was running anywhere near that fast but if he hada ran through the line that could of been a 9.70 or who knows.

  • He ran 9.72 after Beijing.

    Now who's the stupid idiot?

  • but if he ran this race in full he would of gotten 9.70 or higher.... but bolt just ran a 9.58 so i guess it doesnt matter now

  • yeah i feel ya dowg, i feel ya!

  • THANK YOU, that other guy dnt knw wat his talkin bout

  • That was a semi-final race you dumb ass. There was no need to try and run all the way through when he was so far ahead.

  • didt he get 9.72 so wat u talkin about

  • bolt should be much faster, hes slow atm.

  • Whoever gets it right on the day out of Bolt or Asafa,,it doesn't matter,,a world record will go,,Asafa is as fast as Bolt no question,,He just doesn't handle the big occasion well but he is capable of running anything Usain can.

  • i have to disagree with you in saying that asafa is as fast as Bolt.. bolt is on another level from anyone else on the planet. I do think Powell could break the world record at his very best, but Bolt could break his own record at will. He's the Isinbayeva of sprinting.

  • i agree

  • That guy at 0:20 looks happier than Asafa lmao, Surely Asafa can smash 9.69 even if Bolt does break what ever Powell runs.

  • if asafa powell didn't slow down at the end, bolt couldn't even touch his time.

  • he hardly slowed down did he, i think usain may have slowed down just a little bit more on his world record, dont you think

  • yes I noticed that too his arms wasnt even shaking at all

  • no man.....he slowed quite a bit

  • He was slowing down the last 15m, you can see it when his arms don't go all the way, amazing performance

  • afaster

  • usain bolts the best in the universe!!!!!!!!

  • does anyone know where i can find splits to this race

  • @RBGdUP there are no

  • Maybe e has one leg bigger than the other, or he is stronger in one of them, Anyway even him is powerless against the z fighters. With that said, I go aways... Bye Bye. Sorry I think i'm a little drunk right now we'll continue this discussion later.

  • asafa "power" powell!!

  • mate shut the fuck up he can run under 10 seconds mate over 100m just think about that before you bag him yous have to realise bolt beat the record bye 3 hundredths of a second you cant clap your hands in that amount of time

  • asafa powell is a beast. y r u guyz saying shit. i bet u ppl cant even get 11's

  • lol its called an opinion

  • isnt that bolt in lane 3?

  • before bolt broke the world record, dr christopher tufton, jca's minister of agriculture encouraged all jcans to eat cassava. this is a tuber that ranks with yams, potatoes etc. by us jcans eating cassava, dr tufton believes that all of us would be as fast as asafa. then like a bolt of lightning, there came our superhero......lightning bolt. he broke asafa's record, disrupted dr tufton's plans for all jcans to eat cassava, so that they can all be as fast as asafa.

  • lol shut up about bolt for a min how many people run a wr in a heat lol he could have got 9.6 if he didnt ease off at the end and the only reason that hes no good at the big events is he is putting too much preasure on his shoulders by running these race for his 2 brothers who died and if i was him i wouldnt still be running i would be at home just sitting down and doing nothing tbh hes the 2nd fastest man in the world atm but he will get his record back no doubt

  • Who is this guy Asafa Powell? No point running 9.74 on this meaningless race if he comes fifth in 2004 and fifth in 2008 at the grandest stage of them all - the olympics. With all his experience he should be as cool out there in the finals as Usain Bolt. But in the end, the bottom line is he will never run a 9.60 in his life and I think that Bolt is just head and shoulders above the rest of the pack - Powell,Gay,Spearmon (etc) and will continue to flourish in the near future.

  • A sprinter does not need to wait until the Olympics to break the World Record in the 100m Dash. When Maurice Green had the World Record, he did it at the 1999 World Championships. Asafa Powell broke Maurice's record at the 2001 World Championships. When a sprinter has the World Record, it shouldn't matter which event he accomplished it at, he's still considered the fastest man in the world regardless.

  • actually Maurice Greene broke the world record in June, 1999 in Athens, prior to the world championship in 1999, though he did run 0.01 off his world record at the 1999 worlds. Asafa didn't break Greene record until June 2005, in Athens, nearly 6 years to the day Greene ran 9.79. Since Jim Hines broke the world record at the 68 Olympics, only Lewis, Bailey and Bolt has either tied or broken the world record(offically) at a major championship!

  • wtf!!! how can you compare asafa with spearmon??!!!

  • no he is called Usain BOLT!!!!!!!!!!

  • Powell has THE best start and acceleration EVER

  • best initial acceleration, but he can't do shit at the top end, and that has become his biggest problem.

  • true, that and choking at important finals

  • wow, these commentators seemed way too casual and calm about a FREAKIN' world record being broken.

  • bolt was great!!!! asafa needs some of bolts confidence.....(no doubt now..asafa is a choker)

  • Powell is a choker, plain and simple.....he doesnt have the mental toughness in the big stage. Now Bolt he is just simply a freak, he probably couldve gone faster what he did today...

  • powell and bolt always slow down near the end, they could easily shatter 9.69, them slowing down and still braking the record means they are even faster

  • ah ce qu'il est mignon, ce mec !!

  • lol niggers getting mad ..

  • pc racist.

    :D get a life.

  • what a gap!

  • people are forgetting tyson is the fastest man in the wrld its jst his run was wind aided tyson for gld!

  • So, smart ass, if his run was aided by the wind then he's not the fastest man in the wrld. Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell are officially the 1st and 2nd fastest men in the wrld. Get that large stick out your ass and deal with reality.

  • it dusnt matta bout the wind u fucking cunt

    gay still ran 9.68 making it the fastest ever wind or no wind so get that large stick out ur ass and stop trying to be smart

  • too bad Gay aint qualify man , all 3 of my nations athletes is in the finals son. BOlt, POwell an Frater, . Powell always slows at the end affording him the oppourtunity t break his records agen later.

  • You re not very smart, are you?

  • in every race asafa slows down the last 20 m,bolt and asafa please make us jamaicans proud

  • stop fuckin hating!

    god damn all these haters need to get up on they a-game!

    no one cares what YOU fuckin ran are you in the video?no! so shut the fuck up!

    and asafa is fast!

  • brand is an experience, experience is a brand!

    asafa is an experience, powell is a brand!!!!

  • i run 100m in 15.7 :s

  • lol he slowed down

  • If he brings his A game to the Olympic final, Bolt AND Gay are in big trouble.

  • i run 100 in 10.78, ine 2 far from asafa and tyson

  • jeahhhaa i run 13.6 sec =D

  • gorilla is coming!!!

    that asafa gorilla doped!!!

  • you must be a slow white boy. LOL

  • lol and u?  i dont wanna know it!

  • he got beat by usain bolt wich had a 9.72

  • damn the flash

  • there are fuckin black racist cunts here..

    black brothas..WTF...

    get some life mofos..

  • Asafa is with Amway and takes thier vitimins Double X.

  • come on asafa at bejing beat those cunts bolt nd gay

  • lol my fastest is 12.5 but im only going into the eight grade so i guess thats pretty good the fastest dude in highschool hit a 10 flat he runs a 4:3 his name is curtis brown and he plays for ut now look him up:D

  • dude no mean to put u down or nuthing but my mate jono runs a 12.07 and hes only twelve his mate hes in the same age group ran an eleven seconds last night they train real hard but ay!

  • damn that dude is fast

  • my best record is 11.47 seconds.......i think i can do better in the future....lol

  • Slow ass white people.

  • nice spelling :)

  • I think that time equals around 27 miles per hour or so.

  • I AM an AMERICAN BUT we MUST GIVE CREDIT Where Credit and Respect is Due, THE FACT IS JAMAICA HAS THE BEST TOP 2 SPRINTERS In The WORLD Asafa "King" Powell Ran 9.74 By Himself-basically Jogging and USAINT "LIGHTNING" BOLT

    Ran The World Record, 9.72, in New York pulling away from the Pack which include Tyson Gay, Lifting his hands to the sky 5 meters before crossing the finish line. BOLT could Have gone UNDER 9.70 sec. EASILY!! DID I MENTION JA has THE FASTEST WOMEN SPRINTERS THIS YEAR?? WOW!

  • i respect you eastlaw69 you are the first person from america to say something good about jamaican sprinters. i think they worked hard for it.because we are just a small island on the map people dont expect that from use. we are little but talawa (strong)

  • yo cuz didn't have no comp its no telling how fast he could hae ran if some1 wa close

  • no,that was wind

  • wind aided him it does not count

  • yes it does stupid the wind was only 1.7m/s Asafa is just fuckin fast, and he began jogging 60m into the race, he's a beast, I just hope he recooperates from that injury well

  • You're such a stupid dick

  • pathetic

  • he jogged a world record wow he's a beast

  • he could have ran a 9 if he didnt slow down at the end! why would he slow down?

  • If Asafa runs like this but without slowing down then nobody can beat him not Bolt and not Gaye, nobody.

  • i wanna see this guy ditch the cops

  • yeah i would like to see those honkies catch this guy.

  • lol

  • He could have ran a high 9.6 in this race..... and still had the world record if he didn't let up in the last 15m or so.

  • Lol i love Tyson Gay but Powell got it

  • Wow he could of gotten under 9.7 if he didn't let up at the near. Ouch.

  • maybe i dont know what im talking about but it looks like he lets up a little before he crosses the finish line.

  • hm. highly intelligent response there, kristenhuep.

  • took him long enough............

  • betcha he wishes he never let up at the end now, he'll never hold the record again thats for sure.

  • Good LUCK!! =)

  • Think he is still the man to beat,he could probably go under 9.7, he began to ease off with 10m to go =O

  • to di wurl bitches...jamaica to di wurl...olympics nuh good again!

  • He like slowed up at the end!

  • I was just at the Reebok Grand Prix... the new record is now 9.71 by Usaine Bolt.

    It was the most amazing race I've ever seen.

  • 9.72 was the actual time i thought, 9.71 was the espn time on tv (not official)

  • not the record anymore

  • its like 9.72 now isnt it?

  • today on tv i saw the new record, 9.72

  • This guy is on steriods. No doubt. michfan taking steriods for sprints is nothing to do with upper body strength - it is to enable athletes to train harder sometimes 5 hours a day, day in day out because the body doesn't need as much time to recupirate. That would not be possible naturally.

  • yep he was not running his fullest at the end, but if yo dink about it, if he ran his fullest all the way wouldnt he got 9.70

  • is it just me or does it seem like he went kind of slow, especially at the end

  • they dont train on roids idiot  if you have to big of a upper body its harder to run

  • looks easy when you've been training on roids for the offseason like all of them do.

  • And he let of in the end, I would think 9.6's if he ran through.

  • shit thats fast

  • lol thats wicked fast. i look back when i was in 5th or 6th grade my record was 15 seconds....

  • and he slows up at then end... wow

  • does asafa powell have huge strides? because his turn-over doesn't look that fast compared to other sprinters

  • How many mp/h is this? Around 30?

  • 37km/h is 23mph

  • wow he even slowed up at the end.. imagine if he put out his all... wow... he's good

  • does the wind affect the final time?i didnt know that.

  • He didn't even try. I remember reading an article that said it is humanly impossilbe to go below 9.5 so we shall see.

  • TYSON GAY IS FASTER

  • lol notice that the people who finished last were both white

  • racist.

  • man first tyson, then powell, then tyson, ten powell, these foos keep breakin the record by a tiny second like first it was 9.76 on this one video i saw, then 9.75 by tyson winnin, and now i see powell hittin 9.74? before we all know it one of these two are gonna hit 9.70 or in the high 9.60's ya digg

  • maurice green has ran 9.6s in practice eltronically timed

  • didn't look that fast to me... maybe because the lane next to him was empty.. and he looked like he was so relaxed walk in the park.. even pulling up slow at the end??? lool nice talent.

  • He looks like he just cruised it as well

  • WOW

  • Man the difference between being good and not so good is .05 seconds. That's the 100 m.

  • Tyson Gay is going to beat him

  • i have dreams too. but some dreams are just dreams.

  • AHHAHAHAH yea, alright

  • dude cmon gay is like a full .02 seconds behind him how could he possibly catch him? (that was sarcasm) it's okay to be a powell fan people but don't act like he's invincible. powell CAN be caught, especially when he eases up at the end of his races (not this one, but in another one i saw he just gave up at the end and almost got caught)

  • doesnt matter if he runs it in 11 something, that may be as good as he ever gets, just because someone is fast and young doesnt mean they'll always continue to drop time

  • I ran it in 13.54

  • that's pretty good.....but i know this guy who go 11 something and he's only in grade 9

  • thats really good, probably black XD

  • lol yea

  • I'm the new 100m record holder. I ran it in 34.73 seconds. World's slowest time.

  • You wish. My cousin hit 40 last month.

  • i can do worse! I WILL be the new world record holder

  • thank you

  • *What

  • Whay is " +1.7 m/s " in 20 sec?

  • It's the wind speed, the wind was 1.7 m/s aiding him

  • 37 Km/h= 23 MPH

  • i know 1 guy that was faster. Forest gump xD

  • he,z aye freak okay there,z the truth allright im out peace worldwide