London 4x100 relay

[jazzcyclist]

Re: London 4x100 relay

It doesn't matter what combination the US uses, they were not going to beat Jamaica.

Actually, the same combination might have beaten Jamaica if they hadn't screwed up the second exchange.

Also, it wasn't Jamaica's best team. If we had a healthy Asafa, the record would have been 36.50.

Do you think that was the best American team? What if they had a healthy Dix?

[jamboy]

Re: London 4x100 relay

It doesn't matter what combination the US uses, they were not going to beat Jamaica.

Actually, the same combination might have beaten Jamaica if they hadn't screwed up the second exchange.

Also, it wasn't Jamaica's best team. If we had a healthy Asafa, the record would have been 36.50.

Do you think that was the best American team? What if they had a healthy Dix?

I'll have some of what your smoking

You must be freaking kidding me. No way in hell was Bolt going to lose to anyone on that anchor even if the American anchor has gotten a 10m lead.

Dix wouldn't have made a difference. He is just an "average" 100m sprinter.

[jazzcyclist]

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Do you think that was the best American team? What if they had a healthy Dix?

I'll have some of what your smoking

You must be freaking kidding me. No way in hell was Bolt going to lose to anyone on that anchor even if the American anchor has gotten a 10m lead.

You saying Bolt could have made up a 10 meter deficit on Bailey? And you're accusing me of being high? :roll:

Dix wouldn't have made a difference. He is just an "average" 100m sprinter.

An average sprinter who has more global hardware than Powell, and if he's average what does that make Powell? :?

[gh]

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a little math for Jamboy: even Bolt doesn't move much faster than 10mps, so you're saying that he could make up a full second on some other sub-10 sprinter? That's what 10 meters equates to.

[jamboy]

Re: London 4x100 relay

Do you think that was the best American team? What if they had a healthy Dix?

I'll have some of what your smoking

You must be freaking kidding me. No way in hell was Bolt going to lose to anyone on that anchor even if the American anchor has gotten a 10m lead.

You saying Bolt could have made up a 10 meter deficit on Bailey? And you're accusing me of being high? :roll:

Dix wouldn't have made a difference. He is just an "average" 100m sprinter.

An average sprinter who has more global hardware than Powell, and if he's average what does that make Powell? :?

Dix has nothing on Asafa when it comes to the relays. Asafa is Supreme when it comes to the relays. Just check Beijing and Berlin.

Yes, I said it. If Bolt had a deficit(10 meters) at the beginning of an anchor leg, no way in hell he is going to lose. He is that great.

[gh]

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So you're saying he can run 7.9 or 8-flat? The quality of Ja ganga has obviously improved by a quantum amount.

[Pego]

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If Bolt had a deficit(10 meters) at the beginning of an anchor leg, no way in hell he is going to lose.

You realize it is almost 1 second, not the 0.3 that he has on Bailey. How do you account for the other 0.6-0.7?

Edit. Now I see that it was already addressed above. Sorry for the redundancy.

[etuoyo]

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Not sure anyone can seriously suggest that US had a bigger loss missing Dix than Jamaica missing Powell. Apart from 2008 Olympics has Dix ever even beaten Powell? Even last season in the race after the World Champs when Powell had not recovered from the injury which kept him out of the World Champs (but had to run as it was Diamond League final and he was Diamond leader) he still finished miles ahead of Dix. On top of that the difference between Powell and Frater is far far greater than the difference between Dix and Kimmons.

[gh]

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Although the US 4x100 relay team tied the former world record, does any beleive that if they ran Gay, Gatlin, and the hurdles, Merritt and Richarson, would the US have closed the gap on the Jamaican team?

OK, I take it all back. After today I can now see that Merritt would have beaten Bolt on the anchor :evil:

[jamboy]

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Not sure anyone can seriously suggest that US had a bigger loss missing Dix than Jamaica missing Powell. Apart from 2008 Olympics has Dix ever even beaten Powell? Even last season in the race after the World Champs when Powell had not recovered from the injury which kept him out of the World Champs (but had to run as it was Diamond League final and he was Diamond leader) he still finished miles ahead of Dix. On top of that the difference between Powell and Frater is far far greater than the difference between Dix and Kimmons.

Powell literally ran on one leg and stillbeat Dix by a mile in that Zurich race.