this is pure fffffiaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss rom rom rom rommmmmm....fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssss
@MrDjc1970 I think (in fact, I am virtually certain) that the big Jamaican is potentially capable of running the quarter mile in less than 44.00 seconds. However, whether he is potentially capable of breaking the word record for that event - which currently stands at 43.18 - is another matter. That is an incredible time, and has remained unbeaten for well over a decade now.
The great Michael Johnson thinks that Mr Bolt MAY WELL have the physical potential to become the next world record
@MrDjc1970 [continuing on from my previous 'post' about Usain Bolt.]
holder for the 400m ... and he (Johnson) is an exceptionally knowledgeable and astute athletics pundit - as well as being a former athlete of considerable renown and ability!
If the 'Lightning Bolt' really does have a burning ambition to break MJ's outstanding world record [43.18] for the one lap event, then I think that there is a distinct POSSIBILITY - if not a probability that he will succeed. The big man showed
@MrDjc1970 [continuing on from my previous 'post' about Usain Bolt.]
enormous potential as a 400m runner back in 2002, '03 and '04 - when he was a kid of 15, 16 and 17. (If my memory serves me correctly, he returned a time of 45.35 secs back in the June or July of 2003; shortly before he turned 17 years of age.
If Bolt wants to become the world's number one quarter miler in 2015 or '16, he will have to start training seriously for that event shortly after this year's Olympic Games
@MrDjc1970 [continuing on from my previous 'post' about Usain Bolt.]
come to an end, IMHO. He will turn 26 years of age in August of this year, and therefore he surely can't afford to delay changing his training regime - from that of a sprinter into that of a quarter-miler - for much longer. (IF he has serious ambitions to be the best 400m runner in the world, that is.)
@TheEctomorph i enjoy your views. you speak with common sense, i think though....if he continues to eat plenty of those yams then the world could be his oyster and he could achieve that 400m world record. thats IF he decided to give up the hundred after lowering that record a little more lolololol.
@thethingyyy [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Linford Christie]: banned pharmaceutical drugs at the zenith of his career (in the early 1990s).
I hate to say it, big Linford, but it is somewhat difficult to believe that your long list of glittering achievements in top class international athletics were achieved without the use of illicit 'persian rugs' - given the existence of substantial', if not compelling, evidence to the contrary.
@TheEctomorph yes, linford and carls positive results for banned stimulants were brushed under the carpet, the uk and usa and willing to do things like that, who knows, the other greats of the past from uk and usa probably also had results brushed under the carpet (wells, coe, ovett etc etc), i mean the possibility is there given they done one bad thing, i can extrapolate that back to everyone before christie (just as u have probably done with some of the evidence u r using to substatiate....
@thethingyyy It is difficult to argue with the logic of that statement. However, in fairness to big Linford, it has never been PROVEN that he was using illegal, performance-enhancing 'persian rugs' at the time of his greatest successes in the sport: i.e. when he triumphed in the 100m sprint finals at the 1992 Olympic Games and the 1993 World Championships, respectively. That said, one would have to be fairly naive to believe that it is anything less than PROBABLE that Mr Christie was taking
[Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Mr Linford Christie] maintain that he was a clean athlete, and that his Olympic Gold medal was achieved by legitimate means. For all I know these people may be right to believe in his innocence ..... but I am afraid that the EVIDENCE - when considered objectively and in its entirety - strongly suggests that big Linford did resort to the use of illegal, performance-enhancing 'persian rugs' during his sprinting career.
[Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Linford Christie]: performance-enhancing drugs during his lengthy and not undistinguished career as a track star.
Maybe one day the big man will have the humility and integrity to admit that he was not a drug free athlete during his halcyon days a sprinter (1992 and '93) - assuming that he was a dishonest athlete who used illegal 'persian rugs', that is.
There are still plenty of people - other than Mr Christie himself - who vehemently
[Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Linford Christie]: illegal, performance-enhancing 'persian rugs'.
I am well aware, of course, that big Linford has consistently and vehemently denied that he ever took anabolic steroids (or any other banned substances) during the course of career as a top-class athlete ... and, for all I know, he may be telling the truth. However, common sense would dictate that there is a very high degree of PROBABILITY that Mr Christie did use illegal,
@NFLdude505 ... if he was a clean athlete, that is. And, unfortunately, that is a very big "if". It is a well-documented fact that big Linford failed a drugs test in February 1999, and was found to have a substantial amount of nandrolone in his system.
I used to have the utmost respect for Mr Christie, and was more than a little disappointed when it came to light - in the summer of '99 - that his string of glittering achievements as a sprinter may have been tainted by the use of
barry bonds ,rafael palmerioro,mark mcguire 50 ,60 ,70, home runs.......this yeat the leader was like 40....when the numbers start to sound crazy.......proof is for a court,but abberations of this size are toooooooooo obvious...9.58 bullsh*t look up the population of jamacia.........all that aside its fun too watch the ben johnson types or barry bonds, just call it what it is ...at least in cycling everyone is cheating.
So two gold medalists from other countries is domination of the sprints? Not quite. Something fishy with Jamaica today, with Blake and Bolt. I think lots of stars in athletics use drugs, but to me, Jamaica for its size has too many fast men and women. I don't believe that jamaica is the fastest people on earth thing for one second, if that were the case, you would have seen more fast runners prior to the recent wave, but you don't.
Name them, prior to 2004. Lennox Miller? Merlene Ottey? Linford Christie (though he used steriods)? Donovan Bailey? All Legit, but who else? How many men ran sub 10? if they were naturally the fastest, by weren't they olympic champions prior to 2004/2008? Any world record holders prior to then? This latest wave stinks of cheating, no offense, for how many people they have, they are too deep and too many of them are putting up ridiculous times. Research it urself.
@TheAngeltoDemon You YOURSELF acknowledged that it is a small country. So they have someone that rises to the top, you accuse them of DOPING? Until you have PROOF, don't single them out for their hard work and accomplishments.
If they had someONE to rise to the top, I would not have a problem at all with it. They have 7 guys running faster than men have ever run. Lighting can strike once, and that name was Bolt. But when it strikes twice in the same spot, it begins to stink. We shall see, but it will prob be covered up if it is ever found out because the sport would be killed. Hard work is a given in world class sprints, these times go beyond hard work.
What a DUMBASS. They train in the US, their coaches learn in the US, and every YEAR they compete against the best in the world, and all you can say is that they DOPE?!?! Of COURSE they're going to get fast.
Your retarded, u don't get what i'm trying to say. You have no appreciation for how fast they are running relative to the size of their country, relative to abilities of humans in general. The 10 second barier is still a huge hurdle, esp for college sprinters who are basically clean. Don't be naive.
@TheAngeltoDemon Yeah, DUMBASS, I DO know what you are trying to say. You are saying that they are DOPING, when you have no PROOF, because they are kicking the ASSES of the other RUNNERS and WINNING.
So what is the reason you think they are NOT doping? Because they never tested dirty? Neither did Marion Jones. None of the Balco athletes would have got caught if USADA hadn't gotten a sample of THG. The point you raised was Jamaica has always had great sprinting talent. Tell me who then, go through history and you'll see they were never this deep. Beyond the doping allegations, all i'm saying is jamaica should not be this deep.Fastest man, yes, fastest 3 men in 5yrs?
@TheAngeltoDemon There were MANY countries that weren't deep. There was a time when Ethiopia and Kenya had very FEW world class distance runners. So, now that they are deep, do we accuse them of doping? The rhetoric of "DOPING, DOPING!" gets old when athletes do well.
I agree, it does get old, but this type of depth is just suspicious. And i'm not talking about depth relative to other current teams, i'm talking about depth of this kind relative to the world. Fair point, let's hope their clean, but even if their not, let them put on a good show.
there was a jamaican in this final as well, but again where i'm coming from is people are saying the jamaicans are natural athetes, but due to how deep they are, now it's getting suspicious. if they were truly the fastest in the world, youwould have seen more of them medaling in the olympics throughout history.
@0111001101100001 I sincerely hope not. But common sense would dictate that at least half of the eight finalists in the men's 100 metres sprint at the 1992 Olympic Games (in Barelona) were on illegal performance-enhancing 'persian rugs' in the build-up to those Games. Sadly, it now seems fairly probable that the guy who won that race - Mr Linford Christie, of Great Britain - was among the drug-assisted world-class sprinters of the early 1990's.
@TeraStrataGeM If this gifted Namibian sprinter was a clean athlete - and there is every chance that he was - then it would seem likely that he suffered a serious injustice at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.
If he had not been "beaten" by big Linford in the 100 metres final at those Games, he would have gone down in history as the FIRST African sprinter (male or female) ever to win an Olympic Gold medal in that blue-ribband event of the track.
@TheEctomorph yeh but fredericks is an idiot for not having joined in in the doping, but he was too dumb and scarred that he would be caught when really all u need is half a brain to get round the testing
@sciencestudent342 Athletes who refrain from using illegal performance-enhancing drugs are NOT idiots, you stupid, ignorant c u next tuesday.
I have read comments from you before (on 'You Tube boards about athletics), and it is patently clear that you are one of those t***s that condones the use of banned pharmaceutical drugs by track and field athletes. As far as I am concerned, you are a complete waste of space.
@TheEctomorph have u fucking lost ur mind?? why are u and ur faggot tranny alter ego ruth coming at me months later? lol, ur weird, i already tore u apart months ago, dont make me do it again u mindless cross dressing faggot. its weirdos like u that like to paint a pretty picture of everything and all the while trying on mommys clothes...hhahahahhaha....now fuck off
@sciencestudent342 Why don't you just shut the f*** up, you perverted, c*********g c u next tuesday?
The pointed remarks that you made about Mr Frank Fredericks on this You Tube board recently were well out of order, and in rather bad taste ... to be perfectly frank with you. Mr Fredericks deserves to be praised - not dissed - for the fact that he was a clean athlete, who never failed a 'dope' test during his long and highly distinguished career as an international athlete.
@sciencestudent342 Are you one of those intensely annoying internet 'trolls', by any chance? That would not surprise me in the slightest.
Even if you are not actually a troll, you a certainly a somewhat obnoxious and unsavoury human being. What is more, your knowledge of track and field athletics is nowhere near as extensive as you seem to think it is.
I, for one, hope that you have a particularly unpleasant and unsuccesful New Year - it is soooo what you deserve.
@TheEctomorph u r the fukin twat bringing up stuff thats so old, and i obviously shut u up before, where has this new leese of life come from ?? u get rejected over christmas and looking for more troublle, sounds like ure the one having a bad new year ahahhahahahahahaha, i spose that sex change op didnt go to plan huh? lolololol, and ye, its easy for u to restart a problem months later and then call me the troll, nice one!! seriously go hang urself already, sounds like u need it :)
@TheEctomorph Maybe Frankie Fredericks would have won that final. I would like to think that Frankie was clean throughout his career too. But to say that Linford was on something at the time of his victories in Barcelona and Stuttgart, would be saying that Linford was on something when when he and Farnkie started training together in 95-97. Frankie got a little bulkier and he has ran his best races ever when they trained together, so who knows.
@henh32 ben johnson was from jamaica too. i bet if u took 1000 african americans and 1000 jamaicans there would be some statistically significant difference between the number of "quick people" between the two groups
@MrDjc1970 Fair comment, sir. Whilst one cannot be 100% certain that the big man - Linford Christie - was using illicit, performance-enhancing 'persian rugs' in the build-up to the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992, it would seem highly probable that he was.
@TheEctomorph he was a druggy alright. lives just down the rd from me, was sat on a park bench oneday wen a woman said isnt that guy famous over there?. i said yes to this asian woman. thats linford christie the british athlete who took drugs to win a gold olympic medal. he looked over and then ran off with that guilt look in his eyes. pseudoephedrine in 1988? & nandrolone 1999 and banned from any British Olympic Association teams.alan wells was the best b4 christie & stil is lolol
@MrDjc1970 Allan Wells - the big Scotsman who did his lil country proud by winning the Olympic 100 metres sprint final in Moscow, back in 1980 - was a clean athlete throughout his distinguished career as an international athlete. I have a great deal more respect for 'Wellsy' than I do for 'lunchbox' Linford. The athletic achievements of that controversial sprinter from West London will always be tainted by the fact that he failed TWO drug tests; in September of 1988, he was found to have
@MrDjc1970 [continuing on from my previous 'post' about Christie's tainted achievements in athletics.]
an unacceptably high amount of pseudoephedrine in his system, at the Olympic Games in Seoul (but, for some reason, he was given the "benefit of the doubt" by the authorites, and was allowed to keep the silver medal that he "won at those Games). Then, some 10-and-a-half years later - in the February of '99 - he was found to have a substantial level
@MrDjc1970 [continuing on from my previous 'post' about Christie's tainted achievements in athletics.]
of nandrolone (a banned anabolic steroid) in his system.
At one time - about 20 years ago - I had a lot of respect for big Linford, and considered him to one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, track and field athlete ever to represent Great Britain. But it now seems almost certain that the geezer was a fraud, who cheated his way to the top of the sprinting world.
@TheEctomorph i would also like to add....i will be gutted if ever Bolt was desperate to turn to the persian rugs but i cant see it as you will already know that his ability is proven through his times & achievements from such an early age unlike people like FLO JO, MARION JONES, JOHNSTON, CHRISTIE & many others lol. enjoy your day there and nice to share points of views with another intellect. :)
@MrDjc1970 I do not think, for one moment, that Usain Bolt will ever resort to the use of illegal, performance-enhancing drugs. The 6 foot 5" Jamaican speedster is probably the most naturally gifted sprinter who has ever set foot on God's Earth - with the possible exception of 'Bullet' Bob Hayes, the 1964 Olympic 100m champion from Florida (who retired from track and field athletics before he reached the age of 22, and made a career for himself in American football).
@ZEC2ZEC Carl was a non-factor in US Trials this year - he barely made the Long Jump team. And Christie didn't acknowledge that Carl would've won the Olympics 100m had he been there, what an idiotic comment - Christie did say that there was speculation as to how much of a factor Carl would've been. Carl never broke 10 after his 9.86 in 1991, and Christie dealt with him easily in the 1993 Worlds which answers who was a better 100m man from 1992 onwards
@bossofalltime : I agree with you when you look at Christie and Lewis after 1992, however, it was said the Lewis had a sinus infection that caused him to not perform well in the US Trials in 1992. Now I believe that Lewis did run a sub 20 seconds in the 200m in Italy that summer after the Trials and prior to the Barcelona Olympics. Now I'm not saying that Lewis could of 3peat but if he had qualified he might of been a factor considering how he ran in the 4x100m and possibly missed a WR in the LJ
@bossofalltime Factually speaking, Linford was the top sprint man in 1992, but I wouldn't say that Linford was better than Carl in 1992. In 1993? Yes, but not 1992. I'm not saying that Carl would have won in Barcelona either, but you can't completely rule that out. Carl has his ups and downs just like anybody and he did perform in the long jump and 4x100m like he was a force to be reckon with. He didn't win too many races in 1991 either, and he came out at the big race and set a world record.
@MrPunk412 Linford ran 10.00 into -1.3 in the semi-final just behind Burrell's 9.97....accounting for wind, those were two of the best 100m performances ever at the time....Carl was always a force in any major final he was in, even in 1993 he at least challenged for a medal (0.03 from Bronze), I just feel that Christie got his act together in the majors after 1991 (he got pretty pissed at coming 4th in 9.92)....shame we didn't get to see the match up....yes Carl was phenomenal on that anchor
@bossofalltime Yes, he did put it all together at the major races as he got older, it's just sad to claim to be better than somebody when a person is not at their peek. Carl did the best he could in that 1993 final, but he wasn't in top form. I don't think Carl would have complained too much in losing to Linford when Carl wasn't at his best, unlike Linford losing to Carl in big championships when he was his best and wanting to retire because of it.
@gwl1983 ... if he had a head start of 20 metres, maybe! Christie is over 50 years of age now, and WAY past his physical prime. But, in a very real sense, that is irrelevant to the point that we are discussing here. When big Linford was at the peak of his sprinting powers - very nearly 20 years ago now - he was NOWHERE NEAR as great a sprinter as Usain Bolt is today. The big Jamaican's personal best performances (so far) are as follows : 9.58 seconds [100m] and
@gwl1983 [Contining on from my previous comments about the difference in sprinting ability between Mr Linford Christie and Mr Usain Bolt]: 19.19 seconds [200m]. Big Linford PB's were: 9.87 secs [100m] and 20.09 secs [200m]. I rest my case ... sir.
@gwl1983 I think we both can agree that The Pope is an atheist ... Sir. What is more, I think that we can also both agree that - barring a minor miracle on God's Earth - Usain Bolt will only manage to finish in 4th place in the 100 metres final at the Olympic Games next year. He will be beaten by three British sprinters: Harry Aitkines-Ayreetey, Simeon Williamson and Mark Lewis-Francis (although not necessarily in that order).
Seriously, though, you are an annoying and tedious numpty.
This race illustrates how much of sprinting is mental. Burrell, the man with the fastest time, failed in every phase of the race. Christie, by comparison, had a good start, an excellent drive phase, and maintained his form through the finish line.
@Karmartia yea but that was caused by a false start from christie that was given to burrel. and actually burrel was so slow in that race because he pulled a muscle at the start but still tried to run as hard as he can
linford christie won this with a time of 9.96 dec, hope he knows that 9.96 now, might just get u in the finals, and prepare to run under 9.58 to win the 100m in 2012 olympics, lol
@IRONBOSSE I consider it somewhat unlikely that the person who wins the coveted (men's)100 metres sprint title at the Olympic Games later this year will break the world record. The British climate, for one thing, is seldom conducive to exceptionally fast sprinting times. (Unlike the climate in South European and Meditteranean countries.)
That said, I would agree with you that the winning time in the final of the men's 100 metres sprint in London next summer
@TheEctomorph I hate to disagree but Asafa Powell ran 9.91 in Birmingham, UK on a wet evening on a notoriously 'slow' sprinting track (as in it is not a Mondo surface like the London 2012 track is). The average temperature in london in July/August is 24 degrees C. And I also seem to remember a certain person running in Berlin (Northern Europe) in 2009 and breaking the 100m and 200m world records....
@IRONBOSSE [continuing on from my previous 'post' about the improvement in standards - in top-class, international sprinting - since '92.]
will be WAY faster than 9.96 (unless, of course, the weather conditions are absolutely ATROCIOUS - as they were in Moscow, back in July 1980, when Mr Allan Wells won the Olympic 100m sprint title in a relatively 'pedestrian' time of 10.25).
Who do you think will win the men's 100 metres sprint final at this year's Olympics? Personally,
@IRONBOSSE [continuing on from my previous 'post' about the improvements in standards - in top-class, international sprinting - since '92.]
I can't see anyone beating the excellent Usain Bolt - the 6 foot 5" speedster from Jamaica, who currently holds the world record (and who, of course, is the reigning Olympic Champion at both sprint distances). I am well aware, of course, that the big man came unstuck at last year's IAAF World Championships in South Korea, but I do not think that,
@IRONBOSSE [continuing on from my previous 'post' about the improvement in standards - in top-class, international sprinting since '92.]
that he will fail to win the 'blue riband' event of track & field athletics at the Olympic Games in London. The 'Lightning Bolt' may well produce a very fast time - i.e. under 9.70 - in the 100m final next summer - but, given the inclement British climate, it is unlikely that he will seriously threaten his own world record, which stands at 9.58.
@rankingjohnmajor I sincerely hope that the athletics authorities NEVER decide to make it legal to take performance-enhancing 'persian rugs', such as anabolic steroids. These substances are extremely hazardous to the health of people who take them.
Why should clean athletes - who do not want to endanger their long-term health by taking performance-enhancing 'persian rugs' - be forced to compete against athletes who are prepared to take these dangerous pharmaceutical drugs? If anabolic
@rankingjohnmajor [Continuing my 'post' about the prevalence of performance-enhancing drugs in athletics]: steroids were legalized by the International Association of Athletics Federations - and by the International Olympics Committee - this (to my mind, unacceptable) situation would be even more commonplace than it is at the present time. The legalization of anabolic steroids and EPO would - without a shadow of a doubt - make it even more difficult for clean athletes to rise to the
@rankingjohnmajor [Continuing my 'post' about the prevalence of performance-enhancing drugs in athletics]: top of their sport than it is now.
ATHLETES (AND COMPETITORS IN OTHER SPORTS) WHO TAKE ILLEGAL, PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS ARE CHEATS. Pure and simple. There is no way that substances such as anabolic steroids and EPO should be legalized by the athletics authorities.
@fightjunge24 thats just it cause the big guys are big. look at asafa in 2000 n compare to now. he does 90degrees but now his arms and chest are huge so it looks abit off. plus he took a textbook form and his body made it work to his natural running style.
Carl Lewis would have won that race if he had been allowed to run. No question. He was then the world-record holder and he beat Christie as easily as can be all that season, even after the Olympics. Christie even acknowledged it. Besides, it showed later at the 4x100m relays. Carl Lewis would have had one more gold medal. What a pity !
I remember Burrell taunting Christie in a race he beat him in a while before this, and now the twat didn't even pick up a medal in the final ! LOLOLOLOL :)
@mamowolde the blacks do bad ass events? what like in Basketball where the best all round player is Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics, & last time i looked Bird was not a brother! its so funny that a whiteman is the best basketball player ever!
@dan32113 dude, err, the best basketball player is called Michael Jordan. In his day, best defender in the league, top point scorer... I could go on. (I'm a Lakers fan, btw)
@indifferenz Larry Bird is the only man is history to win MVP & Coach of the yr. What can"t be denied is that through 84,85 & 86 Larry Bird was the best basketball player on Planet Earth, there was not one AfricanAmerican who could touch him. Not bad for a White Boy!
@dan32113 I think you're making the race issue more than what it is worth. Frankly, if Bird was an Eskimo, his achievements would be just as impressive. Although, throughout his amazing career (starting at college), Bird was on a par with my favourite player of all time, Magic (incidentally, the Lakers won the 1985 series). Bird was clearly awesome, and he would makes my all-time starting line-up: Jordan, Magic, Bird, Dr. J and Kareem (never saw Bill Russell play).
@BalldinhoVanessa There are prob more white achievements in atheletic than there are blacks, fyi! If you wanna do a white vs black im for it just let me know and we can compare everything worldwide.
No white man has run under 10 seconds.....! It must be because in the past, where black people were running away from tigers, white men were chasing sheep. Go figure!
@EnglishHuscarl ok, who was more intelligent? Mandela or dubya Bush? Gazza or Pele? would you consider Beyonce less intelligent than Jessica Simpson? please, answer by making yourself seem even less intelligent. Based on your logic, you would be black I'd take it. But I'll bet you're white. So am I btw
@whitehawk38 Bruny Surin was a world-class sprinter for a number of years, back in the 1990s. He was the World Indoor Champion (in the 60m dash) on two occasions: 1993 and '95.
His personal best time - for the (outdoor) 100 metres - was 9.84. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Mr Surin was already about 32 years of age when he returned that very fast time (back in the summer of 1999).
BULLSHIT .... the triple jump & pole vault records are held by whites, and the 1500 m , mile and 2000 m world records ( the toughest events to win btw) are held by a white african runner, Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco. I am not racist , but stop talking shit ( and where are your " blacks " in the javelin, hammer, discus, shot put . huh ???!!! ) ...
@ezoen Jonathan Edwards white Englishman, world record holder in Triple jump. Only man in history to jump over 18ft twice. Still holds world record from 1995.
@ezoen if he beats Jonathan Edwards record, i"ll be happy for him. Records are there to be broken! It has stood for 15yrs though. He jumped over 18ft in Gothenburg at World champs to break world record, then in next jump went even further!
@ezoen Mr Tamgho is certainly an extremely talented athlete, and the chances are that he will eventually jump even further than Mr Edwards did when he was in his prime - back in the summer of 1995. However, I think that it is possible that it will take the French triple jump star another five years to eclipse Edwards' world mark (which stands at 18.29 metres). That is a fantastic record, and has remained unbeaten - or unequalled - for 16 long years.
@TheEctomorph lol, took you a year to reply. After this year I don't think that teddy will break it, He's been jumping further than 17m since he was in high school and has improved less then a meter. I think that Christian Taylor will be most likely to beat the record, he has more speed then anyone else down the runway( He use to sprint in the 4X100m and he runs the 400m). teddy already broken his ankle which sounds very severe. Triple jumping will only re injure it. He's done for.
@ezoen lol! I apologize for not replying to your 'post' more promptly ... but I did not read it a year ago. In fact, I saw your comments for the first time only a couple of hours ago!
I do hope that big Teddy Tamgho is not finished as a world-class triple jumper. I believe that he is still only 21 years of age. The British triple jump star of the 1990s - Jonathan Edwards - was nearly 30 when he set his third world record in that event [18.29 metres], which still stands today.
South Africans have potential. Yet ASA (Athletics South Africa) mess things up for them. I knew a poor talented SA dude from the townships who ran a 10.09. I witnessed it with my own eyes. Very sad that some countries miss it.
Then what you are saying is racist plain and simple anyway who cares's who's faster black or white judge on their ability,not skin colour is it an ethnic origin competition no it's a running race by the way Alan Wells ran it in 10 seconds back in 1980 he was British and white i will never understand those who bring up the race issue in competition it's reallt pointless.
if britain had a dude that was faster and was white, then he'll be representing britain, but they have no one that's whites because blacks are faster.
thanks to english very tough artificial selection of the slaves... only the stronger, faster, bigger and more survive... that resultes on the jamaican population of today!
what??? I doubt jamaica has a better selection of athletes than Nigeria or Ghana. the fact is, the west indian culture is based around track and fiels athletics.
crap! i hate jamaicans and their violent culture and lack of manners. But you cant deny the island has more world class athletes, boxers, musicians and gangsters than any other in the world pound for pound!
I agree 100%. jamaicans are generally violent and arent exactly the most polite people in the world. lol. ironically they're extremely religious (being the #1 country with the most churches per capita) whilst retaining the third highest homicide rate in the world, with at least one person being killed every six hours.
I'm east african. and sadly i have to admit that i've probably faced more racism from ja's than any other race, and i've faced a lot of racism from other races. even in predominantly poor white working class areas, the minority of Ja's living in these communities are a pain in the neck. Its like the ruder they are the more respect they get amongst their peers. Generally I keep myself to myself but in some situation I have to work/communicate with the types of people I dont want to be around.
I grew up with them and they never change. I work with a lot of ghanains and they are just in general very polite people. The way they talk is kind of charasmatic just like jamaican patois but they dont have the ego to go with it like jamaican idiots do.
I had to beat up a jamaican the other day for bumping into me in a kebab shop.
people want to blame broken britains ills on immigrants and especially muslims.
But muslims have businesses and are doctors and lawyers.
The blame should be squarlely laid at the door of the spread of jamaican culture in england. ie absent jamaican fathers, single white council estate women with half jamaican kids who grow up to be thieves and surly criminals, loud mouthed elders with vulgarity and a cash convertors -jeremy kyle show life style.
this is pure fffffiaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss rom rom rom rommmmmm....fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssss
47DegreeAxis 3 weeks ago
@MrDjc1970
I read your comments about big Linford with interest.
Let me take this opportunity to wish you a happy and prosperous 2012.
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
@TheEctomorph Happy new year also...
i just checked out bob hayes and wow he was bloody fast. its nice to meet someone on youtube who actually talks sense when it comes to athletics.
i will add though.....i would love to see BOLT before he retires, have a crack at Johnson's 400m world record. Whats your opinion on it?.
MrDjc1970 4 weeks ago
@MrDjc1970 I think (in fact, I am virtually certain) that the big Jamaican is potentially capable of running the quarter mile in less than 44.00 seconds. However, whether he is potentially capable of breaking the word record for that event - which currently stands at 43.18 - is another matter. That is an incredible time, and has remained unbeaten for well over a decade now.
The great Michael Johnson thinks that Mr Bolt MAY WELL have the physical potential to become the next world record
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
@MrDjc1970 [continuing on from my previous 'post' about Usain Bolt.]
holder for the 400m ... and he (Johnson) is an exceptionally knowledgeable and astute athletics pundit - as well as being a former athlete of considerable renown and ability!
If the 'Lightning Bolt' really does have a burning ambition to break MJ's outstanding world record [43.18] for the one lap event, then I think that there is a distinct POSSIBILITY - if not a probability that he will succeed. The big man showed
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
@MrDjc1970 [continuing on from my previous 'post' about Usain Bolt.]
enormous potential as a 400m runner back in 2002, '03 and '04 - when he was a kid of 15, 16 and 17. (If my memory serves me correctly, he returned a time of 45.35 secs back in the June or July of 2003; shortly before he turned 17 years of age.
If Bolt wants to become the world's number one quarter miler in 2015 or '16, he will have to start training seriously for that event shortly after this year's Olympic Games
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
@MrDjc1970 [continuing on from my previous 'post' about Usain Bolt.]
come to an end, IMHO. He will turn 26 years of age in August of this year, and therefore he surely can't afford to delay changing his training regime - from that of a sprinter into that of a quarter-miler - for much longer. (IF he has serious ambitions to be the best 400m runner in the world, that is.)
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
@TheEctomorph i enjoy your views. you speak with common sense, i think though....if he continues to eat plenty of those yams then the world could be his oyster and he could achieve that 400m world record. thats IF he decided to give up the hundred after lowering that record a little more lolololol.
MrDjc1970 4 weeks ago
@thethingyyy Good point!
MrPunk412 1 month ago
@thethingyyy [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Linford Christie]: banned pharmaceutical drugs at the zenith of his career (in the early 1990s).
I hate to say it, big Linford, but it is somewhat difficult to believe that your long list of glittering achievements in top class international athletics were achieved without the use of illicit 'persian rugs' - given the existence of substantial', if not compelling, evidence to the contrary.
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
@TheEctomorph yes, linford and carls positive results for banned stimulants were brushed under the carpet, the uk and usa and willing to do things like that, who knows, the other greats of the past from uk and usa probably also had results brushed under the carpet (wells, coe, ovett etc etc), i mean the possibility is there given they done one bad thing, i can extrapolate that back to everyone before christie (just as u have probably done with some of the evidence u r using to substatiate....
sciencestudent342 2 months ago
@thethingyyy It is difficult to argue with the logic of that statement. However, in fairness to big Linford, it has never been PROVEN that he was using illegal, performance-enhancing 'persian rugs' at the time of his greatest successes in the sport: i.e. when he triumphed in the 100m sprint finals at the 1992 Olympic Games and the 1993 World Championships, respectively. That said, one would have to be fairly naive to believe that it is anything less than PROBABLE that Mr Christie was taking
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
[Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Mr Linford Christie] maintain that he was a clean athlete, and that his Olympic Gold medal was achieved by legitimate means. For all I know these people may be right to believe in his innocence ..... but I am afraid that the EVIDENCE - when considered objectively and in its entirety - strongly suggests that big Linford did resort to the use of illegal, performance-enhancing 'persian rugs' during his sprinting career.
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
[Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Linford Christie]: performance-enhancing drugs during his lengthy and not undistinguished career as a track star.
Maybe one day the big man will have the humility and integrity to admit that he was not a drug free athlete during his halcyon days a sprinter (1992 and '93) - assuming that he was a dishonest athlete who used illegal 'persian rugs', that is.
There are still plenty of people - other than Mr Christie himself - who vehemently
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
[Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Linford Christie]: illegal, performance-enhancing 'persian rugs'.
I am well aware, of course, that big Linford has consistently and vehemently denied that he ever took anabolic steroids (or any other banned substances) during the course of career as a top-class athlete ... and, for all I know, he may be telling the truth. However, common sense would dictate that there is a very high degree of PROBABILITY that Mr Christie did use illegal,
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
Wasnt linford cristie like 32 when he won the gold medal in 1992 ? Pretty amazing
NFLdude505 3 months ago
@NFLdude505 ... if he was a clean athlete, that is. And, unfortunately, that is a very big "if". It is a well-documented fact that big Linford failed a drugs test in February 1999, and was found to have a substantial amount of nandrolone in his system.
I used to have the utmost respect for Mr Christie, and was more than a little disappointed when it came to light - in the summer of '99 - that his string of glittering achievements as a sprinter may have been tainted by the use of
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
barry bonds ,rafael palmerioro,mark mcguire 50 ,60 ,70, home runs.......this yeat the leader was like 40....when the numbers start to sound crazy.......proof is for a court,but abberations of this size are toooooooooo obvious...9.58 bullsh*t look up the population of jamacia.........all that aside its fun too watch the ben johnson types or barry bonds, just call it what it is ...at least in cycling everyone is cheating.
rturboq 4 months ago
@TrickSports
So two gold medalists from other countries is domination of the sprints? Not quite. Something fishy with Jamaica today, with Blake and Bolt. I think lots of stars in athletics use drugs, but to me, Jamaica for its size has too many fast men and women. I don't believe that jamaica is the fastest people on earth thing for one second, if that were the case, you would have seen more fast runners prior to the recent wave, but you don't.
TheAngeltoDemon 4 months ago
@TheAngeltoDemon WTF?!?!? Jamaica has ALWAYS had a history of good sprinters. Men, AND women.
VirenKickedPresAss 4 months ago
@VirenKickedPresAss
Name them, prior to 2004. Lennox Miller? Merlene Ottey? Linford Christie (though he used steriods)? Donovan Bailey? All Legit, but who else? How many men ran sub 10? if they were naturally the fastest, by weren't they olympic champions prior to 2004/2008? Any world record holders prior to then? This latest wave stinks of cheating, no offense, for how many people they have, they are too deep and too many of them are putting up ridiculous times. Research it urself.
TheAngeltoDemon 4 months ago
@TheAngeltoDemon You YOURSELF acknowledged that it is a small country. So they have someone that rises to the top, you accuse them of DOPING? Until you have PROOF, don't single them out for their hard work and accomplishments.
VirenKickedPresAss 4 months ago
@VirenKickedPresAss
If they had someONE to rise to the top, I would not have a problem at all with it. They have 7 guys running faster than men have ever run. Lighting can strike once, and that name was Bolt. But when it strikes twice in the same spot, it begins to stink. We shall see, but it will prob be covered up if it is ever found out because the sport would be killed. Hard work is a given in world class sprints, these times go beyond hard work.
TheAngeltoDemon 4 months ago
@TheAngeltoDemon
What a DUMBASS. They train in the US, their coaches learn in the US, and every YEAR they compete against the best in the world, and all you can say is that they DOPE?!?! Of COURSE they're going to get fast.
VirenKickedPresAss 4 months ago
@VirenKickedPresAss
Your retarded, u don't get what i'm trying to say. You have no appreciation for how fast they are running relative to the size of their country, relative to abilities of humans in general. The 10 second barier is still a huge hurdle, esp for college sprinters who are basically clean. Don't be naive.
TheAngeltoDemon 4 months ago
@TheAngeltoDemon Yeah, DUMBASS, I DO know what you are trying to say. You are saying that they are DOPING, when you have no PROOF, because they are kicking the ASSES of the other RUNNERS and WINNING.
VirenKickedPresAss 4 months ago
@VirenKickedPresAss
So what is the reason you think they are NOT doping? Because they never tested dirty? Neither did Marion Jones. None of the Balco athletes would have got caught if USADA hadn't gotten a sample of THG. The point you raised was Jamaica has always had great sprinting talent. Tell me who then, go through history and you'll see they were never this deep. Beyond the doping allegations, all i'm saying is jamaica should not be this deep.Fastest man, yes, fastest 3 men in 5yrs?
TheAngeltoDemon 4 months ago
@TheAngeltoDemon There were MANY countries that weren't deep. There was a time when Ethiopia and Kenya had very FEW world class distance runners. So, now that they are deep, do we accuse them of doping? The rhetoric of "DOPING, DOPING!" gets old when athletes do well.
VirenKickedPresAss 4 months ago
@VirenKickedPresAss
I agree, it does get old, but this type of depth is just suspicious. And i'm not talking about depth relative to other current teams, i'm talking about depth of this kind relative to the world. Fair point, let's hope their clean, but even if their not, let them put on a good show.
TheAngeltoDemon 4 months ago
@VirenKickedPresAss
there was a jamaican in this final as well, but again where i'm coming from is people are saying the jamaicans are natural athetes, but due to how deep they are, now it's getting suspicious. if they were truly the fastest in the world, youwould have seen more of them medaling in the olympics throughout history.
TheAngeltoDemon 4 months ago
its all about the lunchbox
peych4444 4 months ago
i think theyre all on steroids
0111001101100001 4 months ago
@0111001101100001 I sincerely hope not. But common sense would dictate that at least half of the eight finalists in the men's 100 metres sprint at the 1992 Olympic Games (in Barelona) were on illegal performance-enhancing 'persian rugs' in the build-up to those Games. Sadly, it now seems fairly probable that the guy who won that race - Mr Linford Christie, of Great Britain - was among the drug-assisted world-class sprinters of the early 1990's.
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
Wow can you believe both linford christie and Donavan Bailey were Jamaicans
bullfranthrow 4 months ago
Frankie Fredericks is the most respectable
TeraStrataGeM 4 months ago
@TeraStrataGeM If this gifted Namibian sprinter was a clean athlete - and there is every chance that he was - then it would seem likely that he suffered a serious injustice at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.
If he had not been "beaten" by big Linford in the 100 metres final at those Games, he would have gone down in history as the FIRST African sprinter (male or female) ever to win an Olympic Gold medal in that blue-ribband event of the track.
Sport can be very unfair at times.
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
@TheEctomorph yeh but fredericks is an idiot for not having joined in in the doping, but he was too dumb and scarred that he would be caught when really all u need is half a brain to get round the testing
sciencestudent342 2 months ago
@sciencestudent342 Athletes who refrain from using illegal performance-enhancing drugs are NOT idiots, you stupid, ignorant c u next tuesday.
I have read comments from you before (on 'You Tube boards about athletics), and it is patently clear that you are one of those t***s that condones the use of banned pharmaceutical drugs by track and field athletes. As far as I am concerned, you are a complete waste of space.
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
@TheEctomorph have u fucking lost ur mind?? why are u and ur faggot tranny alter ego ruth coming at me months later? lol, ur weird, i already tore u apart months ago, dont make me do it again u mindless cross dressing faggot. its weirdos like u that like to paint a pretty picture of everything and all the while trying on mommys clothes...hhahahahhaha....now fuck off
sciencestudent342 4 weeks ago
@sciencestudent342 Why don't you just shut the f*** up, you perverted, c*********g c u next tuesday?
The pointed remarks that you made about Mr Frank Fredericks on this You Tube board recently were well out of order, and in rather bad taste ... to be perfectly frank with you. Mr Fredericks deserves to be praised - not dissed - for the fact that he was a clean athlete, who never failed a 'dope' test during his long and highly distinguished career as an international athlete.
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
@sciencestudent342 Are you one of those intensely annoying internet 'trolls', by any chance? That would not surprise me in the slightest.
Even if you are not actually a troll, you a certainly a somewhat obnoxious and unsavoury human being. What is more, your knowledge of track and field athletics is nowhere near as extensive as you seem to think it is.
I, for one, hope that you have a particularly unpleasant and unsuccesful New Year - it is soooo what you deserve.
YOU F****** TWAT!
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
@TheEctomorph u r the fukin twat bringing up stuff thats so old, and i obviously shut u up before, where has this new leese of life come from ?? u get rejected over christmas and looking for more troublle, sounds like ure the one having a bad new year ahahhahahahahahaha, i spose that sex change op didnt go to plan huh? lolololol, and ye, its easy for u to restart a problem months later and then call me the troll, nice one!! seriously go hang urself already, sounds like u need it :)
sciencestudent342 4 weeks ago
@TheEctomorph Maybe Frankie Fredericks would have won that final. I would like to think that Frankie was clean throughout his career too. But to say that Linford was on something at the time of his victories in Barcelona and Stuttgart, would be saying that Linford was on something when when he and Farnkie started training together in 95-97. Frankie got a little bulkier and he has ran his best races ever when they trained together, so who knows.
MrPunk412 1 month ago
I trained with him (leroy) and it's actually glass from a child hood injury
1slydogg 5 months ago
if anyone is on steroids here its got to be leroy burell, just look at his eyes!!!!
cannonballcollins 6 months ago
haha usa strategy
thelawyerbg 6 months ago
Absolutely love japanese..."start-o...christie-san, Mitchell-san..." lol
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@henh32 ben johnson was from jamaica too. i bet if u took 1000 african americans and 1000 jamaicans there would be some statistically significant difference between the number of "quick people" between the two groups
sciencestudent342 2 months ago
Christie looked like he was on roids. I think he might have been on some type of PED.
TheCdog24 6 months ago
you brits forget christie was a drug cheat aswell...oh and im british also before u start with yank or racist comments.
MrDjc1970 7 months ago
@MrDjc1970 Fair comment, sir. Whilst one cannot be 100% certain that the big man - Linford Christie - was using illicit, performance-enhancing 'persian rugs' in the build-up to the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992, it would seem highly probable that he was.
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
@TheEctomorph he was a druggy alright. lives just down the rd from me, was sat on a park bench oneday wen a woman said isnt that guy famous over there?. i said yes to this asian woman. thats linford christie the british athlete who took drugs to win a gold olympic medal. he looked over and then ran off with that guilt look in his eyes. pseudoephedrine in 1988? & nandrolone 1999 and banned from any British Olympic Association teams.alan wells was the best b4 christie & stil is lolol
MrDjc1970 4 weeks ago
@MrDjc1970 Allan Wells - the big Scotsman who did his lil country proud by winning the Olympic 100 metres sprint final in Moscow, back in 1980 - was a clean athlete throughout his distinguished career as an international athlete. I have a great deal more respect for 'Wellsy' than I do for 'lunchbox' Linford. The athletic achievements of that controversial sprinter from West London will always be tainted by the fact that he failed TWO drug tests; in September of 1988, he was found to have
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
@MrDjc1970 [continuing on from my previous 'post' about Christie's tainted achievements in athletics.]
an unacceptably high amount of pseudoephedrine in his system, at the Olympic Games in Seoul (but, for some reason, he was given the "benefit of the doubt" by the authorites, and was allowed to keep the silver medal that he "won at those Games). Then, some 10-and-a-half years later - in the February of '99 - he was found to have a substantial level
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
@MrDjc1970 [continuing on from my previous 'post' about Christie's tainted achievements in athletics.]
of nandrolone (a banned anabolic steroid) in his system.
At one time - about 20 years ago - I had a lot of respect for big Linford, and considered him to one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, track and field athlete ever to represent Great Britain. But it now seems almost certain that the geezer was a fraud, who cheated his way to the top of the sprinting world.
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
@TheEctomorph i would also like to add....i will be gutted if ever Bolt was desperate to turn to the persian rugs but i cant see it as you will already know that his ability is proven through his times & achievements from such an early age unlike people like FLO JO, MARION JONES, JOHNSTON, CHRISTIE & many others lol. enjoy your day there and nice to share points of views with another intellect. :)
MrDjc1970 4 weeks ago
@MrDjc1970 I do not think, for one moment, that Usain Bolt will ever resort to the use of illegal, performance-enhancing drugs. The 6 foot 5" Jamaican speedster is probably the most naturally gifted sprinter who has ever set foot on God's Earth - with the possible exception of 'Bullet' Bob Hayes, the 1964 Olympic 100m champion from Florida (who retired from track and field athletics before he reached the age of 22, and made a career for himself in American football).
TheEctomorph 4 weeks ago
It was the last time Britain ever won anything major in athletics. They are equally as woeful in football and other sporting respects.
fop221 7 months ago
lol christie has the same maniac mode as tyson gay when hes running, eyes wide open like
sciencestudent342 7 months ago
Leroy Burrell was the strongest in semifinals, but...
octopusmagnificens 9 months ago
@ZEC2ZEC Carl was a non-factor in US Trials this year - he barely made the Long Jump team. And Christie didn't acknowledge that Carl would've won the Olympics 100m had he been there, what an idiotic comment - Christie did say that there was speculation as to how much of a factor Carl would've been. Carl never broke 10 after his 9.86 in 1991, and Christie dealt with him easily in the 1993 Worlds which answers who was a better 100m man from 1992 onwards
bossofalltime 9 months ago
@bossofalltime : I agree with you when you look at Christie and Lewis after 1992, however, it was said the Lewis had a sinus infection that caused him to not perform well in the US Trials in 1992. Now I believe that Lewis did run a sub 20 seconds in the 200m in Italy that summer after the Trials and prior to the Barcelona Olympics. Now I'm not saying that Lewis could of 3peat but if he had qualified he might of been a factor considering how he ran in the 4x100m and possibly missed a WR in the LJ
jrussell04 7 months ago
@bossofalltime Factually speaking, Linford was the top sprint man in 1992, but I wouldn't say that Linford was better than Carl in 1992. In 1993? Yes, but not 1992. I'm not saying that Carl would have won in Barcelona either, but you can't completely rule that out. Carl has his ups and downs just like anybody and he did perform in the long jump and 4x100m like he was a force to be reckon with. He didn't win too many races in 1991 either, and he came out at the big race and set a world record.
MrPunk412 6 months ago
@MrPunk412 Linford ran 10.00 into -1.3 in the semi-final just behind Burrell's 9.97....accounting for wind, those were two of the best 100m performances ever at the time....Carl was always a force in any major final he was in, even in 1993 he at least challenged for a medal (0.03 from Bronze), I just feel that Christie got his act together in the majors after 1991 (he got pretty pissed at coming 4th in 9.92)....shame we didn't get to see the match up....yes Carl was phenomenal on that anchor
bossofalltime 6 months ago
@bossofalltime Yes, he did put it all together at the major races as he got older, it's just sad to claim to be better than somebody when a person is not at their peek. Carl did the best he could in that 1993 final, but he wasn't in top form. I don't think Carl would have complained too much in losing to Linford when Carl wasn't at his best, unlike Linford losing to Carl in big championships when he was his best and wanting to retire because of it.
MrPunk412 6 months ago
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animegamer77 11 months ago
Another drug cheat..
Numanoid1963 11 months ago
Dude has a whack hair cut lol
Gearz86 1 year ago
Linford Christie would destroy Usain Bolt in 100m
gwl1983 1 year ago
@gwl1983 u could not be more wrong. u could try but u would not be sucessful
peych4444 1 year ago
@gwl1983 how would he ya clown
111colm13 11 months ago
@111colm13 Coz he's the fastest man to have ever lived!!!
gwl1983 11 months ago
@gwl1983 clearly hes not when bolt can run 9:58 about 3 or 4 yards better than 9.96 brains
111colm13 11 months ago
@111colm13 No ... nobodies faster than Linford :)
gwl1983 11 months ago
@gwl1983 ... if he had a head start of 20 metres, maybe! Christie is over 50 years of age now, and WAY past his physical prime. But, in a very real sense, that is irrelevant to the point that we are discussing here. When big Linford was at the peak of his sprinting powers - very nearly 20 years ago now - he was NOWHERE NEAR as great a sprinter as Usain Bolt is today. The big Jamaican's personal best performances (so far) are as follows : 9.58 seconds [100m] and
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
@gwl1983 [Contining on from my previous comments about the difference in sprinting ability between Mr Linford Christie and Mr Usain Bolt]: 19.19 seconds [200m]. Big Linford PB's were: 9.87 secs [100m] and 20.09 secs [200m]. I rest my case ... sir.
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
@TheEctomorph I think we both can agree that Mr Linford Christie is considerably faster than one Usain Bolt ... Sir.
gwl1983 3 months ago
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TheEctomorph 3 months ago
@gwl1983 I think we both can agree that The Pope is an atheist ... Sir. What is more, I think that we can also both agree that - barring a minor miracle on God's Earth - Usain Bolt will only manage to finish in 4th place in the 100 metres final at the Olympic Games next year. He will be beaten by three British sprinters: Harry Aitkines-Ayreetey, Simeon Williamson and Mark Lewis-Francis (although not necessarily in that order).
Seriously, though, you are an annoying and tedious numpty.
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
@TheEctomorph "Annoying and tedious numpty!" That's mean you've upset me now :(
gwl1983 3 months ago
@gwl1983 Oh, how inordinately inconsiderate and insensitive of me ! hehehe.
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
This race illustrates how much of sprinting is mental. Burrell, the man with the fastest time, failed in every phase of the race. Christie, by comparison, had a good start, an excellent drive phase, and maintained his form through the finish line.
Karmartia 1 year ago
@Karmartia yea but that was caused by a false start from christie that was given to burrel. and actually burrel was so slow in that race because he pulled a muscle at the start but still tried to run as hard as he can
MrBusunglueck 1 year ago
linford christie won this with a time of 9.96 dec, hope he knows that 9.96 now, might just get u in the finals, and prepare to run under 9.58 to win the 100m in 2012 olympics, lol
IRONBOSSE 1 year ago
@IRONBOSSE I consider it somewhat unlikely that the person who wins the coveted (men's)100 metres sprint title at the Olympic Games later this year will break the world record. The British climate, for one thing, is seldom conducive to exceptionally fast sprinting times. (Unlike the climate in South European and Meditteranean countries.)
That said, I would agree with you that the winning time in the final of the men's 100 metres sprint in London next summer
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
@TheEctomorph I hate to disagree but Asafa Powell ran 9.91 in Birmingham, UK on a wet evening on a notoriously 'slow' sprinting track (as in it is not a Mondo surface like the London 2012 track is). The average temperature in london in July/August is 24 degrees C. And I also seem to remember a certain person running in Berlin (Northern Europe) in 2009 and breaking the 100m and 200m world records....
runneruk1 1 day ago
@IRONBOSSE [continuing on from my previous 'post' about the improvement in standards - in top-class, international sprinting - since '92.]
will be WAY faster than 9.96 (unless, of course, the weather conditions are absolutely ATROCIOUS - as they were in Moscow, back in July 1980, when Mr Allan Wells won the Olympic 100m sprint title in a relatively 'pedestrian' time of 10.25).
Who do you think will win the men's 100 metres sprint final at this year's Olympics? Personally,
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
@IRONBOSSE [continuing on from my previous 'post' about the improvements in standards - in top-class, international sprinting - since '92.]
I can't see anyone beating the excellent Usain Bolt - the 6 foot 5" speedster from Jamaica, who currently holds the world record (and who, of course, is the reigning Olympic Champion at both sprint distances). I am well aware, of course, that the big man came unstuck at last year's IAAF World Championships in South Korea, but I do not think that,
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
@IRONBOSSE [continuing on from my previous 'post' about the improvement in standards - in top-class, international sprinting since '92.]
that he will fail to win the 'blue riband' event of track & field athletics at the Olympic Games in London. The 'Lightning Bolt' may well produce a very fast time - i.e. under 9.70 - in the 100m final next summer - but, given the inclement British climate, it is unlikely that he will seriously threaten his own world record, which stands at 9.58.
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
Linford! whatta tank!
knutty10 1 year ago
Another useless drug cheating bastard. Athletics is so corrupt they may as well make it legal to take performance enhancing drugs
rankingjohnmajor 1 year ago
@rankingjohnmajor I sincerely hope that the athletics authorities NEVER decide to make it legal to take performance-enhancing 'persian rugs', such as anabolic steroids. These substances are extremely hazardous to the health of people who take them.
Why should clean athletes - who do not want to endanger their long-term health by taking performance-enhancing 'persian rugs' - be forced to compete against athletes who are prepared to take these dangerous pharmaceutical drugs? If anabolic
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
@rankingjohnmajor [Continuing my 'post' about the prevalence of performance-enhancing drugs in athletics]: steroids were legalized by the International Association of Athletics Federations - and by the International Olympics Committee - this (to my mind, unacceptable) situation would be even more commonplace than it is at the present time. The legalization of anabolic steroids and EPO would - without a shadow of a doubt - make it even more difficult for clean athletes to rise to the
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
@rankingjohnmajor [Continuing my 'post' about the prevalence of performance-enhancing drugs in athletics]: top of their sport than it is now.
ATHLETES (AND COMPETITORS IN OTHER SPORTS) WHO TAKE ILLEGAL, PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS ARE CHEATS. Pure and simple. There is no way that substances such as anabolic steroids and EPO should be legalized by the athletics authorities.
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
the face at 9:14 and the arm swings lol, what happened to relaxed face, and arms 90 degrees? its funny...
nickt916 1 year ago
@nickt916 arm 90 degrees is bullsid none of the big sprinters does.
fightjunge24 1 year ago
@fightjunge24 thats just it cause the big guys are big. look at asafa in 2000 n compare to now. he does 90degrees but now his arms and chest are huge so it looks abit off. plus he took a textbook form and his body made it work to his natural running style.
kenshitheone 1 year ago
@kenshitheone only a jamaican can he is jamaican toooo
courtash32 11 months ago
@courtash32 yea and all jamaicans are east africans
MrBusunglueck 11 months ago
@MrBusunglueck i mean west
MrBusunglueck 11 months ago
hai
TheCoryjade 1 year ago
but burrel was so slow because of injury
fightjunge24 1 year ago
even horrible race for cristie he stumbles 4 th step
fightjunge24 1 year ago
what happened to Carl Lewis why he is not in the this finals?
mugzyh 1 year ago
Carl Lewis would have won that race if he had been allowed to run. No question. He was then the world-record holder and he beat Christie as easily as can be all that season, even after the Olympics. Christie even acknowledged it. Besides, it showed later at the 4x100m relays. Carl Lewis would have had one more gold medal. What a pity !
ZEC2ZEC 1 year ago
@ZEC2ZEC Christie would've had the bastard on toast - as he proved on a few occasions in subsequent years. He was a supreme championship performer.
bootymanager 1 year ago 2
@bootymanager Yeah, keep dreaming !
ZEC2ZEC 1 year ago
@bootymanager Yes ... but can you honestly say, hand on heart, that he was a CLEAN and HONEST athlete???
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
Christie = drug cheat
ranhill 1 year ago
Man those were the good ol days.They can't fuck with the USA as far as the summer olympics!!
weaponx20000 1 year ago
This final means nothing because Carl Lewis who blew everyone away in the relay final is not here. He leaves everyone for dust
thepower81 1 year ago
I remember Burrell taunting Christie in a race he beat him in a while before this, and now the twat didn't even pick up a medal in the final ! LOLOLOLOL :)
steveN111333 1 year ago
blacks only do the bad ass events. The jav, shot an discus are for fatass lardos who done nothin else
mamowolde 1 year ago
@mamowolde the blacks do bad ass events? what like in Basketball where the best all round player is Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics, & last time i looked Bird was not a brother! its so funny that a whiteman is the best basketball player ever!
dan32113 1 year ago
@dan32113 dude, err, the best basketball player is called Michael Jordan. In his day, best defender in the league, top point scorer... I could go on. (I'm a Lakers fan, btw)
indifferenz 1 year ago
@indifferenz Larry Bird is the only man is history to win MVP & Coach of the yr. What can"t be denied is that through 84,85 & 86 Larry Bird was the best basketball player on Planet Earth, there was not one AfricanAmerican who could touch him. Not bad for a White Boy!
dan32113 1 year ago
@dan32113 I think you're making the race issue more than what it is worth. Frankly, if Bird was an Eskimo, his achievements would be just as impressive. Although, throughout his amazing career (starting at college), Bird was on a par with my favourite player of all time, Magic (incidentally, the Lakers won the 1985 series). Bird was clearly awesome, and he would makes my all-time starting line-up: Jordan, Magic, Bird, Dr. J and Kareem (never saw Bill Russell play).
indifferenz 1 year ago
@dan32113 The fact you can actually LIST the white athletic achievements shows how RARE they truly are.... HAHAHAHAHA!!!
BalldinhoVanessa 1 year ago
@BalldinhoVanessa There are prob more white achievements in atheletic than there are blacks, fyi! If you wanna do a white vs black im for it just let me know and we can compare everything worldwide.
hugo75000 1 year ago
black people do smell of bo tho
andyl230785 1 year ago
No white man has run under 10 seconds.....! It must be because in the past, where black people were running away from tigers, white men were chasing sheep. Go figure!
azertu2u2 1 year ago
blacks have no brains ?
GRAYMINATOR 1 year ago
dennis mitchell went to my highschool, he holds the 100m record at 10.2.
MrCoolusernamehere 1 year ago
Stop de racist comments.....!!!
Sdelosinfiernos 1 year ago 60
If you're saying Black people are better athletes I'm saying white people are more intelligent, once again look at the facts.
EnglishHuscarl 1 year ago
dude intelligent is not determined by race idiot,but by the individual !!!!!!!!
EagleVisionPictures 1 year ago 36
@EagleVisionPictures Intelligence dude, or intellect, make sure you spell it right otherwise, humongous fail. :)
ArteL69 1 year ago
@EagleVisionPictures intelligence
HighQualityStandard8 1 year ago
@EagleVisionPictures True, true, but "intelligence" is more fitting for the frame of your sentence. Good point though.
blessedbranch 1 year ago
@EagleVisionPictures ... as indeed is athletic ability !!!!!!!!
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
@EnglishHuscarl ok, who was more intelligent? Mandela or dubya Bush? Gazza or Pele? would you consider Beyonce less intelligent than Jessica Simpson? please, answer by making yourself seem even less intelligent. Based on your logic, you would be black I'd take it. But I'll bet you're white. So am I btw
miltondemagnifique 1 year ago
never heard of a canadian sprinter named bruny
whitehawk38 2 years ago
@whitehawk38 bruny surin?? he's from quebec, won a world championship at one point i recall
beast207 2 years ago
@whitehawk38 Bruny Surin was a world-class sprinter for a number of years, back in the 1990s. He was the World Indoor Champion (in the 60m dash) on two occasions: 1993 and '95.
His personal best time - for the (outdoor) 100 metres - was 9.84. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Mr Surin was already about 32 years of age when he returned that very fast time (back in the summer of 1999).
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
black people rules....they're really amazing when it comes to sprots.....
villarico1347 2 years ago
tru statement
ezoen 2 years ago
c wot ur sayin but black white yellow or brown all the same - 1 people man.
wesli1985 2 years ago 2
@villarico1347 not all sports, but yes, mostly those involving running.
POL4090ARU 2 years ago
@POL4090ARU >>they are also High Jumpers...haha! most of them dominate in JUMPING...
villarico1347 2 years ago
Black people can just jump and run faster, usain bolt, the high jump record holder and long jump they were all black
ezoen 2 years ago
@ezoen
BULLSHIT .... the triple jump & pole vault records are held by whites, and the 1500 m , mile and 2000 m world records ( the toughest events to win btw) are held by a white african runner, Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco. I am not racist , but stop talking shit ( and where are your " blacks " in the javelin, hammer, discus, shot put . huh ???!!! ) ...
sessionmessiah 1 year ago 3
@ezoen The high jump record holder is Cuban, and black tend to dominate in sprints. Not all running.
LightSpeed99999 1 year ago
@ezoen Jonathan Edwards white Englishman, world record holder in Triple jump. Only man in history to jump over 18ft twice. Still holds world record from 1995.
dan32113 1 year ago
@dan32113 I think Teddy Tamgho is going to beat it.
ezoen 1 year ago
@ezoen if he beats Jonathan Edwards record, i"ll be happy for him. Records are there to be broken! It has stood for 15yrs though. He jumped over 18ft in Gothenburg at World champs to break world record, then in next jump went even further!
dan32113 1 year ago
@ezoen Mr Tamgho is certainly an extremely talented athlete, and the chances are that he will eventually jump even further than Mr Edwards did when he was in his prime - back in the summer of 1995. However, I think that it is possible that it will take the French triple jump star another five years to eclipse Edwards' world mark (which stands at 18.29 metres). That is a fantastic record, and has remained unbeaten - or unequalled - for 16 long years.
TheEctomorph 3 months ago
@TheEctomorph lol, took you a year to reply. After this year I don't think that teddy will break it, He's been jumping further than 17m since he was in high school and has improved less then a meter. I think that Christian Taylor will be most likely to beat the record, he has more speed then anyone else down the runway( He use to sprint in the 4X100m and he runs the 400m). teddy already broken his ankle which sounds very severe. Triple jumping will only re injure it. He's done for.
ezoen 3 months ago
@ezoen lol! I apologize for not replying to your 'post' more promptly ... but I did not read it a year ago. In fact, I saw your comments for the first time only a couple of hours ago!
I do hope that big Teddy Tamgho is not finished as a world-class triple jumper. I believe that he is still only 21 years of age. The British triple jump star of the 1990s - Jonathan Edwards - was nearly 30 when he set his third world record in that event [18.29 metres], which still stands today.
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tietajajoshua 2 years ago
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NaStRaDaMuS2006 2 years ago
South Africans have potential. Yet ASA (Athletics South Africa) mess things up for them. I knew a poor talented SA dude from the townships who ran a 10.09. I witnessed it with my own eyes. Very sad that some countries miss it.
Rothmannjester 2 years ago
it would have helped if it was in english !!
dbcardmagic1 2 years ago
what have these comments got to do with the video
MrDutto 2 years ago 2
LMAO... nothing at all. we've been having an ongoing conversation for about a month now... Sorry.
turnbacktime 2 years ago
i met linford at a street race event down the road from me, i got his autograph and a photo of him wth us!!!
chillyman99 2 years ago
put it in the background of your profile, and let me know... ;)
molinobeer 2 years ago
by the way i'm colour blind and am a rainbow colour go figure that one out ha ha.
gamster68 2 years ago
Then what you are saying is racist plain and simple anyway who cares's who's faster black or white judge on their ability,not skin colour is it an ethnic origin competition no it's a running race by the way Alan Wells ran it in 10 seconds back in 1980 he was British and white i will never understand those who bring up the race issue in competition it's reallt pointless.
gamster68 2 years ago
Who cares if thay are from Jamaican origin why be racist ?
gamster68 2 years ago
if britain had a dude that was faster and was white, then he'll be representing britain, but they have no one that's whites because blacks are faster.
i'm white by the way, but that's the damn truth.
miketyson1973 2 years ago
Christie looks like a freeking Cosby doing comersial for Jello Pudding
Bryskens 2 years ago
typical putting everyone in the same boat, because some did doping must mean everyone does yeah because everyones the same errr not!
hereticslipknot 2 years ago
Anyway,90% of 100m records are of jamaican origin(Christie,Lewis,Bailey and so on...)
Bajinjo 2 years ago
thanks to english very tough artificial selection of the slaves... only the stronger, faster, bigger and more survive... that resultes on the jamaican population of today!
molinobeer 2 years ago
lol
dazer45 2 years ago
what??? I doubt jamaica has a better selection of athletes than Nigeria or Ghana. the fact is, the west indian culture is based around track and fiels athletics.
turnbacktime 2 years ago
crap! i hate jamaicans and their violent culture and lack of manners. But you cant deny the island has more world class athletes, boxers, musicians and gangsters than any other in the world pound for pound!
nugentmilicent 2 years ago
I agree 100%. jamaicans are generally violent and arent exactly the most polite people in the world. lol. ironically they're extremely religious (being the #1 country with the most churches per capita) whilst retaining the third highest homicide rate in the world, with at least one person being killed every six hours.
turnbacktime 2 years ago
Youve really got me thinking about something thats always bugged me!
people like linford christie always go on about old school jamaican values of hard work,manners ,politeness etc.
Where the fuck does one find these values? All jamaicans of all ages are rude, aggressive, lazy and fornicators!
People from st vincent are totally different!
generally polite and hard working.
Martinique people are cool also and i could go on, Trinidad people are laidback.....but jamaicans! no way!
nugentmilicent 2 years ago
I'm east african. and sadly i have to admit that i've probably faced more racism from ja's than any other race, and i've faced a lot of racism from other races. even in predominantly poor white working class areas, the minority of Ja's living in these communities are a pain in the neck. Its like the ruder they are the more respect they get amongst their peers. Generally I keep myself to myself but in some situation I have to work/communicate with the types of people I dont want to be around.
turnbacktime 2 years ago
jamaicans are the arsehole of the world.
I grew up with them and they never change. I work with a lot of ghanains and they are just in general very polite people. The way they talk is kind of charasmatic just like jamaican patois but they dont have the ego to go with it like jamaican idiots do.
I had to beat up a jamaican the other day for bumping into me in a kebab shop.
nugentmilicent 2 years ago
people want to blame broken britains ills on immigrants and especially muslims.
But muslims have businesses and are doctors and lawyers.
The blame should be squarlely laid at the door of the spread of jamaican culture in england. ie absent jamaican fathers, single white council estate women with half jamaican kids who grow up to be thieves and surly criminals, loud mouthed elders with vulgarity and a cash convertors -jeremy kyle show life style.
nugentmilicent 2 years ago