Track & Field thread: Usain Bolt is not of this world

by **swishnicholson** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 15:59:25

9.58 world record at the world Championships. Tyson Gay set an American record and wasn't even close. Spectacular.

by **Soren** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 16:11:51

phillies to draft Usain Bolt next year

by **jp_chips** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 17:31:49

Soren wrote:Raiders to draft Usain Bolt next year

fyp

by **Soren** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 17:32:37

jp_chips wrote:
Soren wrote:Raiders to draft Usain Bolt next year

fyp

I was going to post a "More likely to happen" pole involving the raiders and bolt.

by **caocao** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 18:26:25

He's a FA, no need to draft him.

by **td11** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 18:26:27

swishnicholson wrote:9.58 world record at the world Championships. Tyson Gay set an American record and wasn't even close. Spectacular.

jesus christ. that is undescribably good.

by **cartersDad26** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 20:06:34

wait, srlsy?
wind aided?

by **phatj** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 20:26:50

So he just broke the previous WR by 0.11? That's absurd.

by **Woody** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 20:35:30

phatj wrote:So he just broke (his own) the previous WR by 0.11? That's absurd.

But remember, he stopped running in the Olympics...

by **Harpua** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 20:38:52

I don't think it was wind aided. He really separates himself from the field in the last 60 meters or so, and it's really amazing to watch:

http://www.universalsports.com/mediaPla ... m_id=23000

by **phatj** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 20:41:03

The Olympic Stadium in Berlin is mostly enclosed (a la Texas Stadium), so it seems unlikely there was significant wind.

by **cartersDad26** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 20:47:54

Harpua wrote:I don't think it was wind aided. He really separates himself from the field in the last 60 meters or so, and it's really amazing to watch:

http://www.universalsports.com/mediaPla ... m_id=23000

i got chills. unreal.

he didn't get off that well and he was looking around at the end. You gotta think he has a real shot to go under 9.5

by **Monkeyboy** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 21:32:03

Bolt reminds me of the new breed of NFL player. When I was a kid, back before computers and stuff, there were two kinds of NFL players: 1) big ones that were slow; and 2) little ones that were fast. Players outside of that mold were pretty rare. These days, even the linemen can flat out run. Bolt is like a new breed of sprinter. He's got the leg speed of a smaller guy and the stride of a distance runner. Put those two things together and he's in class by himself.

Having been a track and field guy in high school and college, I just get chills watching him run. He's unreal.

by **JFLNYC** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 22:23:42

Harpua wrote:I don't think it was wind aided. He really separates himself from the field in the last 60 meters or so, and it's really amazing to watch:

http://www.universalsports.com/mediaPla ... m_id=23000

Commercial longer than the event! :lol:

by **swishnicholson** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 15:34:40

New 200 meter record of 19.19. I watched Ben Johnson's record of 19.32 in Atlanta, and was sure I'd seen a mark that would last for at least twenty years. Bolt has beaten and now obliterated it. After Johnson, the next fastest man is Tyson Gay, back at 19.58 (he pulled out of the race with a sore groin).

by **stevemc** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 15:38:54

swishnicholson wrote:New 200 meter record of 19.19. I watched Ben Johnson's record of 19.32 in Atlanta, and was sure I'd seen a mark that would last for at least twenty years. Bolt has beaten and now obliterated it. After Johnson, the next fastest man is Tyson Gay, back at 19.58 (he pulled out of the race with a sore groin).

Michael Johnson.

Bolt is unreal.

by **swishnicholson** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 15:46:21

stevemc wrote:
swishnicholson wrote:New 200 meter record of 19.19. I watched Ben Johnson's record of 19.32 in Atlanta, and was sure I'd seen a mark that would last for at least twenty years. Bolt has beaten and now obliterated it. After Johnson, the next fastest man is Tyson Gay, back at 19.58 (he pulled out of the race with a sore groin).

Michael Johnson.

Bolt is unreal.

Oops. Steroidian slip.

by **Monkeyboy** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 18:58:29

He's so big that it takes a bit for him to get going. I would have to think the 200 will end up being his better event.

I wonder if he has the endurance for the 400.

by **JFLNYC** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 19:12:47

Monkeyboy wrote:He's so big that it takes a bit for him to get going.

IMO that's the coolest thing about watching him run. He starts off kind of lumbering for the first 40 yards or so then, all of a sudden, it's like he hits the turbo button. You can almost hear the turbo whine.

by **Woody** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 09:49:17

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang ... _human.php

Okay, first off, mathematically, it looks like the theoretical limit of how fast humans can run the 100 meter dash is somewhere around 9.2 seconds, but it looks like we won't get there for hundreds of years.

But second off, you can also see that Usain Bolt is running much faster than humans ought to be running right now. This should give you an inkling of just how special these performances we're seeing from him are. We shouldn't be seeing times like this until the 2030s. Which means, honestly, that it ought to take around 30 years for someone else to come along and break his record.

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