Bet Gay vs Bolt

[chriswitt Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close chriswitt]

How many times will gay face off with bolt next season?

a say 0
what say u

[guruof track Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close guruof track]

Considering its no championship, they will face eachother around 3 times.

[eldrick Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close eldrick]

a lot

1) he wants to prove that he's better than that injury-afflicted 9.71 he offered

2) his market value has gone down as he holds no more titles - only way he'll make big bucks is to beat bolt & offer some semblance of an argument that he can aspire to number 1 & the big money that comes with it

[scratchman Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close scratchman]

What race will Tyson beat Bolt in?
Nobody goes undefeated their entire career. Surely Bolt will have an off-day during his reign. So which will it be?
The 1 or the 2?

I say the 100m. Theyre both too fast to recover from a mistake in a race against each other. The 100 simply doesnt last long enough. And remember, Bolt doesnt have starts like he had in Berlin all the time....neither does Tyson :lol: But yall get my drift. Bolts gonna get complacent at some point. But a highly motivated Bolt wont lose anytime soon.

[guruof track Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close guruof track]

The bolt we know today, is going to need a REALLY bad race to lose to ANYONE. the difference between a 9.58 and 9.71 is HUGE. We arent talking about the 10.03 Bolt or even the 9.72 Bolt.

This is a different person than the one we knew pre-2008.

[scratchman Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close scratchman]

The bolt we know today, is going to need a REALLY bad race to lose to ANYONE. the difference between a 9.58 and 9.71 is HUGE. We arent talking about the 10.03 Bolt or even the 9.72 Bolt.

This is a different person than the one we knew pre-2008.

True.
But Olympics and World Cups arent held every year.
A lot can be attributed to the event itself as to why Bolt ran soooooo fast. My point is he's not gonna hit 9.5 EVERYTIME he runs. So when a defeat happems, I think it'll be in the 100.

[guruof track Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close guruof track]

But he can damn near run 9.7 EVERYTIME he touches the track.

Just phenomenal development for an thalete in less than 15 months :!:

[croflash Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close croflash]

If they get both to sign up for the Diamond League it means that each will have to compete in at least 7 of the 14 meets which would probably result in two or three duels. I think that is a realistic number since they are No. 1 and 2 in both the 100/200, face off once or twice in the 100 and/or 200 and then run the other distance. Also unlikely that they will be at the same meet all the time within the Diamond League, thus reducing the chances of more duels.

[Dietmar239 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dietmar239]

Nobody goes undefeated their entire career. Surely Bolt will have an off-day during his reign.

Did you count Asafa's victory over him in Stockholm last year? He may have made his quota.

[eldrick Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close eldrick]

the difference between a 9.58 and 9.71 is HUGE

the difference between them wouda somewhat less huge without a groin-injury factor

rather than 0.13s, it's more likely to be in 0.08 - 0.10s range which is contemplatable in terms of an upset

[guruof track Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close guruof track]

the difference between a 9.58 and 9.71 is HUGE

the difference between them wouda somewhat less huge without a groin-injury factor

rather than 0.13s, it's more likely to be in 0.08 - 0.10s range which is contemplatable in terms of an upset

Which is still HUGE.

[eldrick Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close eldrick]

no dispute

but psychologically it's important to be within 0.10s

we offer a 10.09 guy a disproportionately much better chance to beat a 10.00 guy than a 10.11 guy even though he's only 0.02s slower

[jpaule Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jpaule]

BOLT VS GAY

Bolt will never beat Gay again! He will be "so fat" from partying, spending some of the zillions of dollars he will have made, figuring out how to accomadate the millions of bolt girls vying for his attention and dodging the Jamaican tax collectors amd trying to figure out ways to be funnier than Shaquille O'Neal (who said he can beat him in a footrace) that he will avoid facing a lean mean, trained to the bone, hungry for revenge Gay at all costs.
JUST KIDDING :lol: :lol:
In reality, how many meets have the bucks to pay the two dudes to face off. Even if both are willing to race, I assume they are going to want to get paid. I can guarantee you neither one of them will be willing to take a cut in pay just so they can race.

[eldrick Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close eldrick]

i'd suggest tyson's offered fee 1/2ed after his last title went

he wants previous solo fee for non-bolt race, he'll have to race him

[bman Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close bman]

Is that duel meet going to happen?