He ran a 9.98 last year in April and this year his best is 10.24. You don’t just suddenly lose over a quarter of a second on your 100m time in the prime of your sprinting career in your early 20’s.
I don’t follow any social media so I may be out of the loop on this one but has he or his coaches provided any explanation for his poor performance in the 100m this year?
In my opinion it was for 2 main reasons. One he was overly tired as they raced him as much or more than any other male collegiate sprinter!
Second he was not training for any specific distance but trying to be a swiss army knife of sprinting. You can be good at alot of distances but
to be great you need to pick 1 or 2 and that's it. Some guys only run the 100 meters. Others run only the 200 meters. The really talented guys
can compete over 100 and 200 meters. This is where Boling belongs as he is the cream of the crop. They trained him in the wrong manner and also overraced him. They killed the kids confidence and kept moving him all over the place. It goes back on the coaching staff.
Now all we hear is that he has to run the 400. I don't even like him doing the 200 & 400. It's better than just the 400 but the kid just needs
a world class coach to train him for the 100 and 200 meters. Do that and I guarantee you that we would see massive results!