Dwight Phillips - the 100m man??

[AS]

A quote from the Doha meet preview on the IAAf page:

But the biggest surprise could come from Dwight Phillips. The World and olympic Long Jump champion has made a lot of changes in his life and career in the last six months, and sees himself as a serious contender not just for another jump title in Osaka, but the 100 metres too!

“I only jumped 8.31 last year, and felt I was getting complacent. So I got in touch with Carl Lewis, and he advised me work with his coach Tom Tellez. He thinks Tellez is the best coach ever, and having worked with him, I agree. He’s the perfect coach, and I’m in perfect shape, and anything could happen this year”. Phillips has already done 8.28m this year, but will be concentrating on the 100 metres, where he confidently expects to qualify for Osaka in the US Trials.

http://www.iaaf.org/GP07/news/Kind=2/newsId=38646.html

Is this anything other than pie in the sky for Phillips?

Here's his 100m record (from his IAAF profile):

2006 10.15 1.6 Modesto, CA 06 05 2006
2005 10.14 1.4 Fort-de-France 30 04 2005
2004 10.22 -0.5 Luzern 09 06 2004
2003 10.24 2 Modesto, CA 10 05 2003
2002 10.16 1.8 Walnut, CA 21 04 2002
2001 10.32 0.9 Tempe, AZ 14 04 2001
2000 10.28 0 Tempe, AZ 15 04 2000

He's 29 years old...

[eldrick]

he ran 6.47i which with a formula no one except me shows any interest in :

100m time = 2*60m time +3.00

for a "basic" 100m, if you can "last" the last 40m "perfectly" to go along with the initial "perfect" 60m ( mo/safa/gatlin did - King/tyson did/do even better, because their initial 60m was/is crap )

King's coach knows how to get guyz to run the last 40m

- add +1.0 to +2.0 wind to that for more realistic potential time

- add some "100m muscle" - maybe down to 6.45 basic shape...

[AS]

he ran 6.47i which with a formula no one except me shows any interest in :

100m time = 2*60m time +3.00

So, 15.94s???

or do you mean 2*60m time -3.00?

In which case: 9.94?

[Mckinley's the Man]

Philips the new 100m man

Well mabey that's why he decided to change programs. I read where The King said that he could break the world record in the long jump. Also, remember Tellez coached him to the world record of 9.86 at 30.[/u]

[eldrick]

he ran 6.47i which with a formula no one except me shows any interest in :

100m time = 2*60m time +3.00

So, 15.94s???

or do you mean 2*60m time -3.00?

In which case: 9.94?

thanks for correcting it :

2*60m time - 3.00

[Mennisco]

(it's 2:23 am where i am & i'm staying up drinking 'till 8 am where i can thankfully get money from this dji finally "correcting" when limey market opens )

thanks for correcting it :

2*60m time - 3.00

And people think I'm kidding when I say I'm psychic. :P

[AS]

The question is whether he has the strength beyond 60m... we'd expect a LJer to have that initial burst speed, but the strength's a whole other issue. His 200m PR is 20.68 from back in 2002...

[eldrick]

you obviously didn't see larry chase King in '83...

[AS]

I'm well aware of Myrick's 200m achievements... but I can't any record of him running faster than 6.60 or 10.10 (the cut-off for pela's all-time lists)... He was clearly a strong runner over the deuce but was he an excellent short sprinter also?

[Mckinley's the Man]

Obviously you do not understand the races. It has nothing to dowith strenght, it has everything to do with how you run the race. The 60 and the 100 are different races, but you run the the same way just longer. You just change your exceleration and spread it out longer in order to run the longer race...

[eldrick]

I'm well aware of Myrick's 200m achievements... but I can't any record of him running faster than 6.60 or 10.10 (the cut-off for pela's all-time lists)... He was clearly a strong runner over the deuce but was he an excellent short sprinter also?

world all-time low-altitude list end of that day :

- King 19.75
- mennea 19.96
- borzov 20.00
- larry 20.03

he is a legend - 60/100 times don't matter - 21 or 22 angle are all that count at this level

[bennyg]

Why are you people such smartasses?

It was obvious to us all that the writer made an inadvertent typo and meant 2* 60 m -3.00 secs. That formula suggests Pickering will run 10.02 secs. I am not holding my breath.!!

[Justin Clouder]

he ran 6.47i which with a formula no one except me shows any interest in :

100m time = 2*60m time -3.00

On the contrary, this is the most useful of your formulas and one I have found handy myself more than once.

Justin

[MDelano]

FYI Dwight ran 10.37 (behind Churandy Martina's 10.09) just a few weeks ago at Penn relays.

[Kevin Richardson]

Looks like a 10.34 in Doha. Let's hope the jumping is in better shape for him.