This is a world wide notice to everyone considering to travel to Beijing in August with an intention to compete for the 100m Olympic title! You are wasting you time, the podium is like a Bob Mugabe election, predetermined. The race is a mere formality in what order the horses will stand, but we know for sure there will be one american flag and two jamaican flags descending at the medal ceremony.
I need not remind you of our early post on this subject as you are bright intelligible rockstars but I will anyway. A month ago, 3 June, we showed you the phenomenon that is Usain Bolt. However, this past weekend was the qualifiers in America and Jamaica for the Olympics and Bolt´s two rivals showed they weren´t just going to lie down and let him sprint to glory without a challenge.
In Eugene, Oregon over the weekend World Champion Tyson Gay ran a 9, 77s in the quarter final of the trials to break Maurice Greene´s old American record. Bolt brought the world record down to 9,72s last month in New York. In the finals of the US trials Gay ran 9,68s in a 4m/s backwind, but for a time to be legal the wind can´t be faster than 2m/s.
On the same day across the ditch in Jamaica Bolt and ex-World record holder Asafa Powell finished one two in their trials, running 9,85 and 9,97 respectively. Powell held the World Record since June 2005 equally it twice and then breaking it again, taking it to 9,74s. Basically he has owned it since 2005. However, Bolts appearance on the scene and subsequent defeats would weigh heavily on Powell´s mental state. Does the old head have the toughness to run his quickest under pressure.
It has turned into the perfect showdown with Beijing nearly a month away and the race promises to be unprecedented, even though Bolts coach still maintains that they are unsure if he will compete for in 100m. Come on now!
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