Usain Bolt's 9.58 100m World Record is 15 Year Old Today - And no one is even close to it

Blake was as fast as Bolt for season. at normal height.

Short Ben Johnson was good for 9..6x, at the time of getting kicked out.

Jamaica full meal deal PED program was short circuited after they sent in the testers, after it got stupid with the top 4 200m runners coming from that tiny island..

Right now the Thompson lad, with Blakes / Bolt vitamins can go at least 9.6x.

Bolt himself could go 9.50 with optimal conditions ,and better finish at peak.

For the record, you will need vitamins, and new ones will come along, or rather the right protocol.

Found out today that fully oxynegenating with pure 02, for some dozen minutes improves breath hold from something like 12 to 18 or more minutes.

You do know what that means to a 400 or 800 runner?

42, and 138

sure PEDs have killed the sport, but the next wave is going to be pretty interesting.

who knows what a super oxygenated Jacob would do? maybe 324 solo?

Jacob can already run 3 miles in under 12 minutes.

Pre-breathing oxygen With about 15 minutes of prior 100 per cent O2 inhalation, a breath hold can be extended to nearly 20 minutes and the blood oxygen will still be higher than normal.

pardon if i caused a new PED O2 phenomina.

the posts from the wilderness, i found have way more traction, than assumed prior.

anyway it is an accident waiting to happen.

10.15 is not going sub 9.58 with doping. There are plenty of guys who can go 10.15 completely clean

9.45 100m Gatlin

Looks like 43 strides

2036 - we will see legal 9.49

This one is up there with the likes of Koch for unbeatability. That's not an accusation just a reference to the time.

You know nothing of what you speak.

9.58 for all intents and purposes is a 9.60.
If there were a young 6'5'' sprinter, coordinated and lean running 10.15 (0.0), loading that dude on EPO, HGH, Anabolics and Stimulants on a good program over the course of three years or so would absolutely get the compass oriented towards a 9.60 or lower.

It's hilarious to see ignorant dummies speak so confidently over something they know nothing about.

Just wishing SprintGeezer still frequents these parts...

Perhaps you could explain this. Am I the only one who doesn’t grasp quite what you’re saying. I have sometimes figured I know who you are but I shall remain silent about that.

Jakob CANNOT run 3 miles in under 12 minutes. This would be the greatest distance race ever and it is not real close. It would be significantly better than his 2 mile and the 3000m record, as well as the 5000m and 10000m records. IF Jakob could run 11:59 for 3 miles, then he could easily shatter every record from 1500m through 10000m. There is no debate about this. Jakob cannot do this.

I’m still here, lurking.

And you’re right.

TONS of old threads on LR, we went over all of this many years ago.

Just one:

That's just not true.

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100 Metres - men - senior - all

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And more:

There is much more, it’s all been gone over a million times, here on LR.

Let’s talk about Thompson’s chances, or how Alfred sprints like BJ, or if we will ever again see any of the big JAM women do anything significant, or if Simbine will continue to improve, or if Kerley will have a renaissance, or if CC will jump the shark, or if Lyles can get any better, or if Hinchliffe will get any better, or if secondary nobodies like Boglarka or Matadi will improve, or if Liberia or Sierra Leone can improve their relays, or if NIGERIA can finally get its act together and dominate the sprint world.

Fastest 100m, Bolt 9.58

Biggest 100m question mark: Johnson

Most beautiful 100m: Powell 9.74 or 9.72

Biggest 100m “talent”: maybe Bailey, Lewis, or Lemaitre

Biggest current threat: Thompson

Amazing that Thompson and Seville are doing so well, from JAM. Where tf are all the other Caribbeans, don’t they care about the sprints anymore?

Thompson lol, he reminds me of a black Erasmus

Yeah 9.58 is huge, but I wish he’d have blasted through the line in Beijing. I also wish that Powell hadn’t let up in his 9.74 in Rieti!!

You are describing the contents in the backpacks of team us men's distance runners?

No one ever thought a man could run 9.5, period.

I don't think you understand the amount of potential talent in a population of 1 billion, 1 billion or not, 40% of whom can barely feed themselves on a daily basis.

Lurking? And posting under the name Salvitore Stichmo.

With enough time on the sauce Kishane can be the one to break it.

It's been mentioned in this thread, but it hasn't been really discussed. Blake and Lyles are 5'11". Gatlin is 6'1". Usain Bolt is 6'5". Everything else being equal, height is a factor in the 100m. You don't see many world class sprinters under 5'10". I'm sure they exist, but most world class sprinters have been closer to 6' or taller. Carl Lewis is 6'2".

The fastest 60m every recorded was in the 100m semi-finals in Tokyo when Su Bingtian ran 6.29. Su is 5'8". Bolt's top speed is faster than Bingtian's. Another outlier is Christian Coleman at 5'9", but they are the exceptions to the rule.

Height obviously isn't the only reason Bolt's record is so impressive, but it is a factor. If you watch his races, Bolt would begin to pull away between 50 and 70 meters. He could run faster from 50 to 100m than anyone in the world at the time.

Wrong again. I use only 1 handle.

Won’t the Enhanced Games answer this question? They will be offering $1M (plus a 6 figure salary) to anyone who breaks the 100M WR. I would imagine that’s enough to get some 10.0 guys to try it.