2009 World Championship of Track & Field

Yes there is no way a guy who ran 10.1X should be running 10.4X in the first round without injuries. In the first round you are running against true amateurs from Micronesia, Asia, Africa and tiny city states in Europe. A 10.1X guy should coast against this level of competition.

on a brighter note, the white Brit 400m hurdler (David Greene)put in a great home straight and looked good with his 48.75 run.

On a sour note Aussie Brendan Cole was DQ'd after he had eliminated Angelo Taylor (or maybe BECAUSE he had haha)on the line. I don't know if the U.S management arranged it Edited by: mastermulti

I want to see what Aaron Stubbs of Australia can do in the near future. Also David Ambler. These are two young guys with potential. I hope Stubbs runs the 100. He has said he wants to only run the 200 but I think he should do both.

Jimmy Chitwood said:

on a more positive note ... the White ladies in the 400 meters looked good, including my favorite Nicola Sanders.

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I've always thought that Sanders was better than Ohuruogu, but she just seems to get injured a lot and is rarely fully fit, hopefully this will be her year.

Ohuruogu is very lucky. She just pipped Sanders at the finish in 2007 and beat Richards in 2008 because she ran a kamikaze final, she's going to need a bit of luck this year too.

For those of you who didn't see Christophe run in the first round. What amazes me is how he continues to just get faster the whole way. His stride length is incredible as well as his speed endurance. It almost looks like he never slows down. I know that is impossible but he really maintains his speed as well as anyone. His future is bright. Nothing will hold this kid down. He is a star. He ran down this whole field with ease. Give him some time. The Master is a future superstar of sprinting. That is why we call him...................................Pepe Le Flew..........................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1O1GoDfDaoEdited by: white lightning

mastermulti said:

on a brighter note, the white Brit 400m hurdler (David Greene)put in a great home straight and looked good with his 48.75 run.

On a sour note Aussie Brendan Cole was DQ'd after he had eliminated Angelo Taylor (or maybe BECAUSE he had haha)on the line. I don't know if the U.S management arranged it

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Why was he disqualified? I saw the race but didn't hear about his disqualification. Greene looked good, I was very surprised and I think he was too.

Cole and Riseley appeals successful. Both through to the semis! by australianflame about 12 hours ago

Another protest! Riseley DQ'd for interference. Stay tuned for updates by australianflame about 13 hours ago

News Flash: Brendan Cole has just been DQ'd for IAAF rule 168.7 (trailing) - stay tuned! by australianflame about 14 hours ago

these are the news flashes I've seen on the AtheticsAust site. When I checked the formal results last they showed the dq'd finishes for both Cole and Riseley.
I hope it changes otherwise the successful appeal has been successfully appealed against

phew!
been out all afternoon and just checked.They have both been reinstated.
The results took a while to catch up with the news flashes I guess.

charlie180 said:

Like Williamson, Edgar is a choker, when the going gets tough Edgar gives up. He ran a decent time, but I am sure if Lemaitre and Grueso were there, he'd have run slower because he doesn't cope well with pressure. You'll see what I mean tomorrow. I would have put money on Edgar being disqualified after Rodgers false start.

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Told you. Both of them are now out, and neither were very impressive.

Sorry about Lemaitre's 200m. The commentator mentioned when he was disqualified that he was running in the 200m later in the week, but now I realise he was referring to Grueso, not Lemaitre.

Whatever I'd like to see his relay split. People are about 50/50 on whether he'd make the finals. I agree, but Lemaitre would have been a better bet for Europe than Chambers is.

Off course Dwain the ped train Chambers made the final. One thing I noticed is that all of these guys reaction times were incredible. Even Bolt is now one of the fastest starters on the planet. I'm glad Mike Rodgers didn't make the final as he cost Christophe a chance. I don't really care too much who wins. I guess I will root for Tyson Gay as he is a humble guy. He has respect and doesn't showboat like most of the sprinters.

Just watched the 400 Mens Hurdles Semi Finals. LJ Van Zyle was horrible. In the 2nd heat, David Greene finised in 2nd and Iakovakis finished 3rd. They are both qualified for the finals. I hope David can make the medal stand. He has been a pleasant find for Britain.

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charlie180 said:

Like Williamson, Edgar is a choker, when the going gets tough Edgar gives up. He ran a decent time, but I am sure if Lemaitre and Grueso were there, he'd have run slower because he doesn't cope well with pressure. You'll see what I mean tomorrow. I would have put money on Edgar being disqualified after Rodgers false start.

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Told you. Both of them are now out, and neither were very impressive.

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You're a tough critic of your countrymen -- but accurate.

In the mens triple jump final tommorow, we got 3 of the 8 guys that made it. With some of the guys we root for not even competing, not a bad show. Maybe one of these guys can manage to make the medal stand. That would be nice. Here is the guys who made the finals. I still miss Jonathan Edwards. What a legend and he still has the world record after all of these years. I don't see it ever being broken.

http://berlin.iaaf.org/results/racedate=08-16-2009/sex=M/discCode=TJ/combCode=hash/roundCode=q/results.html#detM_TJ_hash_qEdited by: white lightning

The womens shot put and the womens heptathon final were awesome. Congrats to all of these ladies. Jessica Ennis put on quite a how winning the final like that. I like the polish girl who won the bronze.

It was great to see two german ladies take silver medals. The crowd is going crazy!

Around 15 minutes until the 100 meters final!

Bolt wins in a new world record of 9.58! Wow, what a suprise. Tyson Gay ran the fastest race by any american ever to take the silver in a 9.71 time. Powell took the bronze which is also no shock. The times are just freakish to me. There are no words to describe what we are watching. Only letters. P.E.D.S. I think you guys can figure that one out. Usain Bolt is the first Jamaican to ever win a world championship gold medal in the 100 but I doubt he will be the last. They have it down to a science over there.

Tommorow is the womens semis and finals in the 100 meters. I hope my girl can suprise some people and at least make the final. Verena Sailer is not only fast, but very beautiful. Good luck to this lovely lady. Edited by: white lightning

im sure bolt's times will only decrease and i wonder how long it will take and how low of a time it will take before people see the truth about bolt.

The media will continue in its cooperative effort to build up anything non-white and break down anything white as long as we let them. It will take massive steroid busts and/or some kind of revolt within the sporting world for all of this to change. Its getting so transparent that its ridiculous, but I'm not one of the millions who can't think for themselves and who are stumbling around with blinders on.

I'm not really buying into any of this "guilty until proven innocent" talk regarding Bolt. I think we're witnessing absolute greatness here. If it were that easy, they'd all be running 9.5s and 9.6s all day long.

And to also suggest that the Jamaicans have figured out a science to get ahead of the tests seems silly to me. A poor, small, island nation of almost exclusively black people are somehow so advanced that they've got the science to fool everyone?

If Bolt is ever proven to be dirty one day, I will join the long line and happily state what a disgrace he is to the sport.

He's a freak of nature, plain and simple, so why not give him the benefit of the doubt?

their are things you can take to mask P.E.D.s

Jamaican nationals that are living in the US are giving coaches in Jamaica roiding routines . Graham was a former Jamaican athlete living in the US. Remy Korchemy who was on the fringes of the Soviet sprint system and he recruited Chambers. Korchemy is the equivalent of a trainer for horses. He actually recruited Chambers because of his physique and guesstimated that with his build and natural power he would be a good candidate for Balco.

put into perspective, Gay ran nearly 3/4 metre quicker for that 100 than any other human ...... and Bolt beat him 1.5 metres.

These results are not going to bring more non-blacks into the sport,quite the contrary! No white guy in these championships was closer than 2/3 of a second away.
The 9.99+ sprinters who came 6th and 7th were almost five metres back. No wonder white sprinters (most sprinters actually)don't confidently playing camera games while lining up to run against the top guys.

Anyway, I think Tyson Gay's my favourite 100 metre man. A man of faith, humble, self affacing and tremendously focused, he still runs magnificently in the face of insurmountable odds.
TG = True Grit. Edited by: mastermulti

Sprinting is started to remind me of football and baseball with the amount of drug use going on. I told my friends year ago about how bad baseball was getting. This was back in the Sosa/McGwire Home Run Chase. They thought I was crazy. I wasn't crazy then and I'm not now either. I would bet most anything that all 8 guys are on peds. I guarantee it. The question is can a clean guy ever reach the medal stand ever again. I would say no unless they start to catch more of the cheats. They need better testing period. We are watching A Rod types. They were created to break records. People can have their opinion and it takes the enjoyment out of it for me. I just don't get excited like I used to when I was a kid. Same with baseball. Too many cheaters. It's very sad actually.

Usain Frankenstein Bolt. He was created just like Gay and Powell. You want the truth. You can't handle the truth!

I get more excited to watch Christophe run a 10.17 than I do watching Bolt go 9.58! I know it's fake. Who cares what the times are. They mean nothing just like when Ben Johnson was doing it back in the day.

I agree it reminds me of the WWF with a competition element. Really his 9.58 isn't a shock to me. If he didn't do his touchdown dance in Beijing his time would have been around this time.

Funny thing about Bolt 9.58 is that he's 6'5...I've always thought a tall guy should run faster with his longer stride all thingsbeing equal. That is why Carl Lewis was so good in my opinion. Bolt's numbers are crazy. Perhaps they have had the wrong guys running the 100m for the last hundred years. They should have used tall guys instead of short guys. Could coaches have been that stupid....I doubt it. One thing I do know is either Bolt's 9.5 is drug induced or Gay's 9.7 is..He is way too short to be running those numbers. Reminds me of Ben Johnson....As for Lemaitre..he should have been in the Final but he is too young to run 4 races and not screw up....As far as white sprinters vs white sprinters go...you really have to look at it as Euros vs real African runners. How many African sprinters won Olympic gold..? I would say zero...they are worse than white sprinters. The fact is all the great sprinters come from the USA or the Carribean island....the former slave holding countries. Slavery scewed athletic performance big time. That is a fact but nobody in this pc crap country will ever mention it. It's got nothing to do with fast twitch/slow twich muscle. That is bs.Things are the way they are because that is the way the white man made it...Anyway, whites can still pulloff victories if theyget on the right PED and hit their cycle right. That is what Kenteris and Nestorenko did in recent years. We all know the top runners are all on PEDs anyway....some of those Jamaican women are totally ripped. I don't care what color they are..a 30 year old women does not look like that