Christophe Lemaitre "White Lightning" 9.92 and 19.80!

[Twinsen9]

Off subject but does anyone have a video of the mens4 x 100 Relay Finals from today? I was actually very impressedbytheir win.France will be back at full strength by the world champs though. Especially impressive was Craig Pickering. I wonder whay his split was? He lookedverygood running against Lemaitre.

What ? The final was today ? (damn)<div>
</div><div>What is all results please !?</div>

 

[ZELLGADISS]

Well white ligtnhing i think that Chambers tells the truth, of course if you are very fast with coordination and big stride, like Bolt and Lemaitre is big advantage.
Of course in the past Chambers with his mucles and potence had advantage in 60m, although for me in this moment is very far of his times , you can see that he "only" did 6.54 in 60m this year in european indoor, that with a little luck Lemaitre almost win being 60m very bad for him hehe



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[ZELLGADISS]

Twinsen relay france was 38,71, was second that is good without 2 best runners, although nobody tell splits i would like know them of course...

 

[white lightning]

Here you go Twinsen9. I can't wait to see Lemaitre break his p.b. in the 200 tommorow. I guess I shouldn't assume that with him being a little tired and I don't know how the conditions will be. I'm staying positive though. He is on a roll.



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[Twinsen9]

Oh sorry, I see this run in live ! But I thank it was the semi lol !<div>
</div><div>So with his best runners, French team can EASILY run sub 38.</div><div>
</div><div>PS : when is the 200m exactly please !</div><div>
</div><div>P-PS : Hey WL, you must change the title ! 9.95 ! But I think you can write 9.89 for Lausanne (June 30) hahaha.</div>


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[mastermulti]

Great video. Thank you my good friend. Excellent quality.
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<div>The thing that gets me so excited about Christophe is that he is finally learning how to be more consistant on his starts. To be the best in the world, you have to put all three phases of your race together. We are seeing Lemaitre mature and grow before our very eyes. He is starting to have that look of a champion. He is even getting a little bit of swagger to him. I love it. Don't get me wrong. He is still the nicest guy you could ever meet but he has his game face on when he steps on the track. [/DIV

Couldn't agree more

 

[mastermulti]

in the video i can count 41 strides for Lemaitre perhaps???im not sure...41 or 42

his left foot strides even numbers. He finished with his left foot 30cms over the line in 42 strides.

His leg form and balance looks really good from the head-on shots,

 

[Soccer&track]

He ran very well today, but I don't think he had an absolute "perfect" race. If he had Bolt or Gay to run against, a 1.8-2.0 wind and raced a "perfect" race he could have easily dipped into the low 9.8x range IMO. I really think the sky is the limit here. The one thing all the top guys have in common is they run consistent sub 10s and Lemaitre is showing he is capable of that. There has to be others like him out there!

 

[white lightning]

Welcome to the board Soccer&amp;track. Yes there are others like Lemaitre out there. Ramil Guliyev is one and there will beothers in the future. We need need to get white kids excited about athletics and sprinting in particular. They need heros to look up to that look like their moms and dads. They also need to believe that it is possible to be an olympic medalist. Lemaitre is helping to change things just as Jeremy Wariner has done so in the 400 meters. The future will be bright with Lemaitre in sight! He will inspire so many kids all around the world!
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[ZELLGADISS]

well white lightning i think that we will not see another "Lemaitre" in long, long time.
Is like Bolt, but in white, a runner that appears i dont know every 50 years perhaps...
We are lucky have Lemaitre in our age...

 

[Liverlips]

Awesome! Excuse my ignorance of sprinting but where does Lemaitre now rank in the top 100 meter guys in the world? Top three maybe?

 

[Soccer&track]

Agreed WL, good to be here! I think getting white American kids interested is a difficult task in some areas such as where I grew up(Seattle suburb). Track wasnt even really talked about or encouraged not to mention it shared the same season as baseball. My school was mostly white and all the best athletes were white but they played ball rather than running track.Europe must have a different mindset as in Lemaitres case, I have read he was running track pretty early. The passion for track where I grew up just wasn't there unfortunately!

 

[white is right]

Awesome! Excuse my ignorance of sprinting but where does Lemaitre now rank in the top 100 meter guys in the world? Top three maybe?

No he is about 6 to 10th depending or ranking criteria. He might get a boost at the worlds because their will be a Jamaican who is probably a top 10 sprinter who won't make the team as Jamaica can only send 4 athletes. In the past the US has this problem at various Olympic comepetitions.

 

[ZELLGADISS]

by mark, 9.95, in this moment is the 11th runner of the year, but in that list are 5 jamaicans ,3 usa,, 1 trinidad, 1 zimbabwe.
But Jamaica and Usa only can have 3 runners in Daegu that will be 3 first in trials next week. In adittion Jamaica can have 4h because Bolt is the last winner.
Lemaitre is improving day to day, so with 9.90 he can to be 4th or 5th place by example in a possible final in Daegu. And Powell and Carter are a little injuried...

Regards

 

[mastermulti]

this is lifted from an article in the U.K."Telegraph" newspaper today.
Very honest quotes from Chambers who probably really believes he can never beat a healthy Lemaitre again...........


"On the track, Dwain Chambers admitted that he needed to find another gear or face being left behind by French rival Christophe Lemaitre after the 21 year-old produced the fastest ever 100 metres time by a white sprinter to upstage the Londoner at the European Team Championships.
Lemaitre, who had already achieved that distinction when he became the first white athlete to breach the 10-barrier last summer, extended his own French record with a lifetime best of 9.95sec in Stockholm's Olympic Stadium, with Chambers taking second place in 10.07sec.
It was 0.01sec quicker than Lemaitre's previous French mark, set in Paris earlier this month when Chambers was again left trailing in his wake.
"He's too fast for me,"Â￾ admitted Chambers, who last beat Lemaitre over 100m at the same championships in Bergen a year ago. "Maybe I'm getting older or he's getting faster. That's two French records he's run against me in the last two races. He's going to go a long way."Â￾ Chambers can console himself with the fact that he has now run under 10.10sec five times this year, probably his most consistent start to a season.
But the reality is that the young Frenchman has moved into a different bracket since winning the European sprint double in Barcelona last summer, where Chambers could manage only fifth in the 100m.
The old Chambers bravado, which once stretched to his ludicrously ambitious "Project Bolt"Â￾, has given way to self-deprecation.
Significantly, when asked about the possibility of beating Lemaitre at this summer's World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, he conceded, "I don't know. This guy's proving hard to beat."Â￾ His problem is his familiar inability to convert a super-fast start into a complete 100m race by sustaining his top speed all the way to the finish line. Yesterday he led Lemaitre for the first 50 metres, just as he did in Paris, only for his young rival to fly past him in the latter stages.
"If you look at the past, I was always good to 60 metres but got stuck in fifth gear for the last 40,"Â￾ he said. "That last part, I'm still not comfortable with. I could do with a sixth gear."Â￾"

 

[mattharper]

I think with the right wind Lemaitre breaks 20 with ease tomorrow. Maybe around a Marcin Urbas time.<div></div>

 

[ZELLGADISS]

Lemaitre for improve seriously now need run faster his first 50-60m.
He improved his RT and it is the reason he is making better times now. Really his last 40m are almost same that last year(very good really, only Bolt and Gay are surely better in last 40 metres).
Of course he is now "only" 90% of his shape but he need make first 60m in 6.45-6.50 for fight with elite runners. And his best time in this moment is 6.52 in route to 9.96(today i dont know yet his time at 60m mark, but i imagine that about same).

Regards

 

[ZELLGADISS]

Words from Lemaitre today:"I am very happy and very surprised - I didn't think I would beat my personal best again.


"But I think I can run faster in Daegu [at the World
Championships in August]. Of course it is very difficult with Usain
[Bolt], Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell, but I think I can get to the final
in the 100m and 200m, and hopefully be going for fourth or fifth place."




Good luck for tomorrow Lemaitre, i hope that he get sub20 although i think that he will get about 20.05-20.10

 

[white lightning]

Man would I love to be this kids coach. The sky is the limit! He needs some company though from some other white sprinters. Time for Guliyev to join him in the sub 10 club. It could take a while though unless Ramil can fix his drive phase. I should correct that. He doesn't even have one at the moment. Get low Ramil and work on that drive phase. That will get you down to 10.00 flat before too long!

 

[white lightning]

Here is a very well written article that gives you a glimpse into this kids life. Enjoy the read gentlemen.<div></div><div>http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jun/19/christophe-lemaitre-london-2012</div>

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Congrats to Christophe on lowering his best once again! Keep on running!

 

[albinosprint]

damn, I missed a good meet. this kids just keeps it coming. I really think a sub 20 could happen tomorrow. I think the only thing that could stop him is fatigue, but he is 21 so I have faith his young & spry body can handle it.

new member, welcome!

and as for CL being a once in a lifetime thing, I'm not buying it. Guliyev would be right there with him had it not been for his past year set back.

 

[white lightning]

You know who could have been the first tall white guy to go sub 10 before Christophe. I think Dallas Robinson could have done it. He gave up sprinting until his mid 20's and then made a short comeback at around 25/26. He had blazing speed and his stride length was very good. He had all of the talent and he did this while working full time at a tire shop. The poor guy was worn out after work but would still attempt to train for a run at the olympics. If this guy wouldn't have had to work and he would have started a little earlier, he could have been the first sub 10. Dallas Robinson had that much talent.

 

[Karl Baxter]

Politically sound article on this over at Alternative Right. Links to Caste Football: http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/hbd-human-biodiversity/white-lightning/

 

[freedom1]

I nominate Casey Combest as the biggest waste of talent in white sprinting history.