Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Bolt's 19.59 in Lausanne!

Usain Bolt ran a very impressive race in Lausanne. You cant take that away from him regardless of what you feel about him. The problem I have is all the talk about how he sent a message to everyone else in the field. Regardless of how everyone else ran, Bolt still would have won the race, but no one else ran. 
Because of the rain and cold conditions everyone else ran what many see as a smarter race by backing off and not trying to run personal bests or record breaking times while Bolt was up front sprinting all out in a meaningless race. Like I previously stated, Bolt most likely would still have won the race with everyone running full speed but the runner up ran 20.40. Churandy Martina (lane 3), Lashawn Merritt (lane 4) and Shawn Crawford (lane 6) could have all easily ran under 20.

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