{"id":1363,"date":"2012-06-30T10:10:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T17:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2012-06-30T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T17:10:38","slug":"kingston-doesnt-change-the-london-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"Kingston Doesn&rsquo;t Change the London 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trackchill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sprinter-Shadow3.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Sprinter Shadow\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sprinter Shadow\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trackchill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sprinter-Shadow_thumb3.png?resize=132%2C197\" width=\"132\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>The defeat of Usain Bolt at the Jamaican Trials has not changed the Olympic 100 meters. Why? Because as I&#8217;ve said before Bolt has always been beatable. It&#8217;s not easy to do, and not everyone has the ability, but it&#8217;s always been possible. It requires two things: a sprinter with serious top end speed and a killer finish; and an average\/typical start by Bolt.<\/p>\n<p>While the perception of Bolt over the last four years has been that he is Superman and invincible, his \u201cdefeatablility\u201d has always been there. The issue isn\u2019t that something has suddenly changed, but that the top sprinters don&#8217;t race enough for these things to come into play on a regular basis!<\/p>\n<p>This is the first head to head for Bolt and Blake since Blake has \u201carrived\u201d as an elite sprinter &#8211; about two years. Bolt and Gay have met three times in four years at this distance and sit at 2 to 1 &#8211; the only possible outcome unless one dominated the other. Bolt\u2019s aura of invincibility has been augmented by the fact that he has twice won on the sport\u2019s biggest stages &#8211; Beijing \u201808 and&#160; Berlin \u201809 &#8211; and both times in WR time. <\/p>\n<p>But if you examine those races, in Beijing he was clearly the class of the field, as the only man able to challenge him at the time (Tyson Gay) was injured. In Berlin he benefited from perhaps the best start of his career, leading even super starter Asafa Powell at 10 meters! With his 6\u20195\u201d frame (i.e. stride length) and top end speed, that race was already over. But in some ways that race prefaced yesterday\u2019s outcome.<\/p>\n<p>I say this because Bolt was clearly working on \u201cgetting out\u201d in the rounds (knowing that Tyson Gay has \u201cserious top end and a killer finish\u201d) as he false started. This was a year before the implementation of the current false start rule however, so there was simply a reset of the race and there was no disqualification. That\u2019s important because Bolt, and everyone else, were able to \u201chedge their bets\u201d slightly knowing that if they were wrong, they got a second chance. That ability to \u201chedge\u201d allowed Bolt to \u201cnail\u201d the start in the final (and get out ahead of the top end of Tyson Gay) that led to his being ahead from step one and achieve the WR 9.58 victory. <\/p>\n<p>That ability to \u201chedge\u201d was taken away in 2010. The result being the head to head with Tyson Gay in Stockholm that found Bolt with an \u201caverage\u201d start, and behind Gay early. Gay being a sprinter with \u201cserious top end and a killer finish\u201d, was able to hold off the Big Man and achieve the win. <\/p>\n<p>Bolt\u2019s next \u201cbig race\u201d post \u201cfalse start rule change\u201d was in Daegu, where he was to face new stud Yohan Blake &#8211; he too possessing \u201cserious top end and a killer finish\u201d. Bolt again was looking to \u201cnail\u201d the start to get out ahead of the top end of Blake &#8211; but misjudged and got the DQ. Blake running away to a clear victory in Bolt\u2019s absence. <\/p>\n<p>Which takes us to yesterday\u2019s race &#8211; the next \u201cbig race\u201d for Bolt. A false start in Kingston leaves the Big Man home, so there is no attempt to \u201chedge\u201d. The resultant \u201caverage\u201d start for Bolt leaves him trying to come back against the \u201cserious top end and killer finish\u201d of Yohan Blake. And as we all now know, Blake held him off for the PR win. Take note that Blake\u2019s margin of victory (.11), is nearly the same as Gay\u2019s Stockholm margin of victory (.13). <\/p>\n<p>Before I go further, I\u2019m sure there are two statements\/questions on the table. One I\u2019m sure is that some will say that Bolt has raced former WR holder Asafa Powell several times between 2008 and yesterday &#8211; inferring that those were also \u201cbig races\u201d. I am going to disagree with the labeling of those as \u201cbig races\u201d on two counts. One is that Powell has never shown to be a big race \/ big meet competitor. Two is that Powell does not fit the mold of someone able to defeat Bolt &#8211; serious top end and killer finish. Powell is just the opposite &#8211; killer start and above average top end. Which is why Bolt, like Gay, Gatlin, and Blake, has consistently run him down to defeat him in the final stages. And why in all their racing Powell has won just once, and then by a mere .01 &#8211; and that was four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The other statement\/question is the matter of calling Bolt\u2019s starts in those races \u201caverage\u201d, because many will say that he was clearly behind. But if you take a look at Bolt\u2019s competitive history in the event, that IS his average start. He either nails the start and runs away from the field &#8211; New York \u201808, Berlin \u201809 &#8211; or he is slightly behind the field at the start. Which is what one would expect from a 6\u20195\u201d sprinter! Again, Bolt benefited from hitting his start twice while the TV cameras were running. So many might thing that that is normal when in fact it has been an anomaly.<\/p>\n<p>Now Bolt isn\u2019t your average 6\u20195\u201d sprinter, because he\u2019s got crazy turnover in those long legs &#8211; which is why he runs 9.7\/9.8 on demand. That\u2019s why he runs down your \u201cnon-studs\u201d with ease, and when he nails the start he is capable of 9.58. But when you take a look at his top 5 times taking out the \u201csuper starts\u201d of New York and Berlin, his top competition compares quite well:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"418\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">Usain Bolt<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">Tyson Gay<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">Yohan Blake<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"81\">Asafa Powell<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"95\">Justin Gatlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.69<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.69<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">7.75<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"81\">9.72<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"95\">9.80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.76<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.71<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.82<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"81\">9.74<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"95\">9.85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.76<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.77<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.82<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"81\">9.77<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"95\">9.87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.76<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.77<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.84<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"81\">9.77<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"95\">9.88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.77<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.78<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"80\">9.89<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"81\">9.77<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"95\">9.89<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>When you look at Bolt and the other potential 100 finalists in London in this light, the race looks a lot closer than what transpired in Beijing and Berlin &#8211; especially in light of the fact that the opportunity to \u201cnail\u201d a Berlin type start has been greatly reduced by the change in the false start rule. Bolt&#160; is still a favorite heading to London &#8211; potentially the favorite. But make no mistake, this is going to be a race &#8211; it was always going to be a race, even before yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no change in the London 100. Not because of Bolt\u2019s defeat yesterday, or the injury to Walter Dix. The loss of Dix will impact the final outcome of the 200 meters, make no mistake in that. But with all the major players in the 100 healthy and in London, Dix was not going to be a&#160; major factor. A finalist, but not a factor for the podium. His poor start takes care of that. And his strength is sustained speed, not the top end as possessed by Gay, Blake, and Bolt.<\/p>\n<p>Powell has always been a threat to steal the race &#8211; barring a super start by anyone else he will lead and set the pace. But there will be more super finishers in this race than any other that Powell has ever been in &#8211; and that is not in his favor. <\/p>\n<p>Blake is the young lion in the room. Fast and fearless. But he too will be facing more super finishers than he ever has in a single race. <\/p>\n<p>Tyson Gay is most like Usain Bolt &#8211; differences in stature aside. He has run 9.69 with a poor start &#8211; running down Powell in Shanghai to do so. He and Bolt have the best top end speed in the event. <\/p>\n<p>Justin Gatlin will be the \u201cX\u201d factor in this race. He doesn\u2019t have the 9.7\u2019s of the others, but that may be more a factor that he missed the opportunity to do so for four years. 9.80 says that he is capable of going where the other have gone. The question for me is, with his race being as \u201ctight\u201d as it already is, where does he squeeze out the additional time? <\/p>\n<p>So my point is that this race was ALWAYS going to be a five man race. The major factor that made it closer than Berlin was not the rise of Blake and his win in Kingston, but the ruling of the IAAF! No false starts means absolutely NO room for error as Bolt found out in Daegu, and several athletes discovered in recent meets&#160; like the NCAA Championships and our own Trials this past week. While I\u2019m not a fan of the rule for other reasons, it does mean that you sit and wait for the gun, or you\u2019re gone &#8211; you can\u2019t even flinch! That\u2019s a handicap for the tall sprinters like Bolt and Ryan Bailey who need that little extra to get out ahead &#8211; because unwinding those long legs from the blocks requires just a little extra. So with this rule \u201cbig men\u201d start like big men &#8211; like Steve Williams, Carl Lewis and Donovan Bailey. And that means running from behind. No problem in a \u201cnormal\u201d race, but a bit more difficult when you\u2019re running against men with \u201cserious top end and killer finishes\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>So how do I think this will play out? I\u2019ll tell you before the Games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defeat of Usain Bolt at the Jamaican Trials has not changed the Olympic 100 meters. Why? Because as I&#8217;ve said before Bolt has always been beatable. It&#8217;s not easy to do, and not everyone has the ability, but it&#8217;s always been possible. It requires two things: a sprinter with serious top end speed and a killer finish; and an average\/typical start by Bolt. While the perception of Bolt over the last four years has been that he is Superman and invincible, his \u201cdefeatablility\u201d has always been there. The issue isn\u2019t that something has suddenly changed, but that the top sprinters don&#8217;t race enough for these things to come into play on a regular basis! This is the first head to head for Bolt and Blake since Blake has \u201carrived\u201d as an elite sprinter &#8211; about two years. Bolt and Gay have met three times in four years at this distance and sit at 2 to 1 &#8211; the only possible outcome unless one dominated the other. Bolt\u2019s aura of invincibility has been augmented by the fact that he has twice won on the sport\u2019s biggest stages &#8211; Beijing \u201808 and&#160; Berlin \u201809 &#8211; and both times in WR time. But if you examine those races, in Beijing he was clearly the class of the field, as the only man able to challenge him at the time (Tyson Gay) was injured. In Berlin he benefited from perhaps the best start of his career, leading even super starter Asafa Powell at 10 meters! With his 6\u20195\u201d frame (i.e. stride length) and top end speed, that race was already over. But in some ways that race prefaced yesterday\u2019s outcome. I say this because Bolt was clearly working on \u201cgetting out\u201d in the rounds (knowing that Tyson Gay has \u201cserious top end and a killer finish\u201d) as he false started. This was a year before the implementation of the current false start rule however, so there was simply a reset of the race and there was no disqualification. That\u2019s important because Bolt, and everyone else, were able to \u201chedge their bets\u201d slightly knowing that if they were wrong, they got a second chance. That ability to \u201chedge\u201d allowed Bolt to \u201cnail\u201d the start in the final (and get out ahead of the top end of Tyson Gay) that led to his being ahead from step one and achieve the WR 9.58 victory. That ability to \u201chedge\u201d was taken away in 2010. The result being the head to head with Tyson Gay in Stockholm that found Bolt with an \u201caverage\u201d start, and behind Gay early. Gay being a sprinter with \u201cserious top end and a killer finish\u201d, was able to hold off the Big Man and achieve the win. Bolt\u2019s next \u201cbig race\u201d post \u201cfalse start rule change\u201d was in Daegu, where he was to face new stud Yohan Blake &#8211; he too possessing \u201cserious top end and a killer finish\u201d. Bolt again was looking to \u201cnail\u201d the start to get out ahead of the top end of Blake &#8211; but misjudged and got the DQ. Blake running away to a clear victory in Bolt\u2019s absence. Which takes us to yesterday\u2019s race &#8211; the next \u201cbig race\u201d for Bolt. A false start in Kingston leaves the Big Man home, so there is no attempt to \u201chedge\u201d. The resultant \u201caverage\u201d start for Bolt leaves him trying to come back against the \u201cserious top end and killer finish\u201d of Yohan Blake. And as we all now know, Blake held him off for the PR win. Take note that Blake\u2019s margin of victory (.11), is nearly the same as Gay\u2019s Stockholm margin of victory (.13). Before I go further, I\u2019m sure there are two statements\/questions on the table. One I\u2019m sure is that some will say that Bolt has raced former WR holder Asafa Powell several times between 2008 and yesterday &#8211; inferring that those were also \u201cbig races\u201d. I am going to disagree with the labeling of those as \u201cbig races\u201d on two counts. One is that Powell has never shown to be a big race \/ big meet competitor. Two is that Powell does not fit the mold of someone able to defeat Bolt &#8211; serious top end and killer finish. Powell is just the opposite &#8211; killer start and above average top end. Which is why Bolt, like Gay, Gatlin, and Blake, has consistently run him down to defeat him in the final stages. And why in all their racing Powell has won just once, and then by a mere .01 &#8211; and that was four years ago. The other statement\/question is the matter of calling Bolt\u2019s starts in those races \u201caverage\u201d, because many will say that he was clearly behind. But if you take a look at Bolt\u2019s competitive history in the event, that IS his average start. He either nails the start and runs away from the field &#8211; New York \u201808, Berlin \u201809 &#8211; or he is slightly behind the field at the start. Which is what one would expect from a 6\u20195\u201d sprinter! Again, Bolt benefited from hitting his start twice while the TV cameras were running. So many might thing that that is normal when in fact it has been an anomaly. Now Bolt isn\u2019t your average 6\u20195\u201d sprinter, because he\u2019s got crazy turnover in those long legs &#8211; which is why he runs 9.7\/9.8 on demand. That\u2019s why he runs down your \u201cnon-studs\u201d with ease, and when he nails the start he is capable of 9.58. But when you take a look at his top 5 times taking out the \u201csuper starts\u201d of New York and Berlin, his top competition compares quite well: Usain Bolt Tyson Gay Yohan Blake Asafa Powell Justin Gatlin 9.69 9.69 7.75 9.72 9.80 9.76 9.71 9.82 9.74 9.85 9.76 9.77 9.82 9.77 9.87 9.76 9.77 9.84 9.77 9.88 9.77 9.78 9.89 9.77 9.89 When you look at Bolt and the other potential 100 finalists in London in this light, the race looks a lot closer than what transpired in Beijing and Berlin &#8211; especially in light of the fact that the opportunity to \u201cnail\u201d a Berlin type start has been greatly reduced by the change in the false start rule. Bolt&#160; is still a favorite heading to London &#8211; potentially the favorite. But make no mistake, this is going to be a race &#8211; it was always going to be a race, even before yesterday. There has been no change in the London 100. Not because of Bolt\u2019s defeat yesterday, or the injury to Walter Dix. The loss of Dix will impact the final outcome of the 200 meters, make no mistake in that. But with all the major players in the 100 healthy and in London, Dix was not going to be a&#160; major factor. A finalist, but not a factor for the podium. His poor start takes care of that. And his strength is sustained speed, not the top end as possessed by Gay, Blake, and Bolt. Powell has always been a threat to steal the race &#8211; barring a super start by anyone else he will lead and set the pace. But there will be more super finishers in this race than any other that Powell has ever been in &#8211; and that is not in his favor. Blake is the young lion in the room. Fast and fearless. But he too will be facing more super finishers than he ever has in a single race. Tyson Gay is most like Usain Bolt &#8211; differences in stature aside. He has run 9.69 with a poor start &#8211; running down Powell in Shanghai to do so. He and Bolt have the best top end speed in the event. Justin Gatlin will be the \u201cX\u201d factor in this race. He doesn\u2019t have the 9.7\u2019s of the others, but that may be more a factor that he missed the opportunity to do so for four years. 9.80 says that he is capable of going where the other have gone. The question for me is, with his race being as \u201ctight\u201d as it already is, where does he squeeze out the additional time? So my point is that this race was ALWAYS going to be a five man race. The major factor that made it closer than Berlin was not the rise of Blake and his win in Kingston, but the ruling of the IAAF! No false starts means absolutely NO room for error as Bolt found out in Daegu, and several athletes discovered in recent meets&#160; like the NCAA Championships and our own Trials this past week. While I\u2019m not a fan of the rule for other reasons, it does mean that you sit and wait for the gun, or you\u2019re gone &#8211; you can\u2019t even flinch! That\u2019s a handicap for the tall sprinters like Bolt and Ryan Bailey who need that little extra to get out ahead &#8211; because unwinding those long legs from the blocks requires just a little extra. So with this rule \u201cbig men\u201d start like big men &#8211; like Steve Williams, Carl Lewis and Donovan Bailey. And that means running from behind. No problem in a \u201cnormal\u201d race, but a bit more difficult when you\u2019re running against men with \u201cserious top end and killer finishes\u201d. So how do I think this will play out? I\u2019ll tell you before the Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,26,155,75,8,9],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blake","tag-bolt","tag-gatlin","tag-gay","tag-olympics","tag-powell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa3DCY-lZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=318","url_meta":{"origin":1363,"position":0},"title":"Bolt &amp; Gay \u2013 When Do We Get the Showdown?","author":"CHill","date":"May 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"After seeing both Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay on the track in Kingston this past weekend\u00a0 I\u2019m sure that many are now wondering when will we get to see them going head to head? 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