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WVN looked ridiculous @ 400m.. so easy for him. Bolt-level easiness.

YESSSS!!!!!!!! I am so happy for gatlin and feel bad for bolt. I didn't know gatlin had it in him but he managed to do it. It's just like the marquez win over pacquiao.

Gatlin deserved it over the negative booing from the crowd, this is a stick it moment to the crowd for booing him. Also that win he almost had before messing up and bolt winning, now gatlin finally wins and I am so pleased for him.



EDIT: I just found bolt came third, coleman second. Ah well Bolt still a legend but so happy for gatlin.

some quotes from mo on his recent 10k win

http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/40834447

"It was one of the toughest races of my life," said Farah. "The guys gave it to me, it wasn't about Mo, it was about 'how do we beat Mo?'

"You had the Kenyans, the Ethiopians, the Ugandans, everybody working as a team against me. Fair play to them, they worked it hard and they chucked everything at me.

"At one point in the middle of the race I wasn't thinking I was going to lose, but I thought 'this is tough, this is tough'."

I don't personally like drug cheats, but after paying his dues especially after the media keep attacking him as 2 time drug cheats, when the first one wouldn't really count it as intentional, but still you have to be very strict in everything. But after all he has done you can't keep attacking him.

I think the blame should be placed more the people giving the punishment that it should be life time ban, but the hard thing is to know he did it intentionally.

But ye good work from gatlin, usain has a good reaction but because he is tall the lean makes him slow down, so maybe coming upright a bit earlier may help him?

Coleman I don't know if he has the capabiities of getting below sub 9.8. But we'll see.
onto the relays for bolt.

USA again take the gold in the 100m womans final, I thought that elaine thompson would win it and in a big way, but something happened and elained just backed down and slowed down. But so close between bowie and talou, great race. Just like gatlin got the win bowie gets in a win and what a lean to win it.
Just perfect. Great job.

Reporter asked Bolt, gatlin, coleman in the press conference "The times this year seems to be way a bit slow compared to before, could this have anything to do with the more strict anti doping policies" and i'm paraphrasing

and bolt and gatlin became quite defensive and annoyed..... 

I thought it was a pretty good question.....

I remember that. It makes you think of the times of around 9.6 seconds and now its stuck at 9.9, 9.8 best. But you can see why they would be defensive cos they are indirectly being accused of doping.

But I guess anyone would be annoyed if they were accused of doping even though they weren't so who knows, we take it with a grain of salt.

women's triple jump was awesome.. great competition.

Caterine Ibarguen (sp?) is straight fire.

women's 1500m was dope too, Jenny Simpson caught that silver.. crazy come from behind 2nd & 3rd by Simpson and Semenya (sp?).

tomorrow: Mens 800m & 400m finals 

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk_EAQooa24" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk_EAQooa24</a>

it's a fair question for sure.. maybe not to bolt/gatlin/coleman in that moment, but, definitely a fair question overall.. times were getting insane, everyone running under 9.8, with 9.7's and 9.6's, even 9.5's for bolt.. all of that "fire" seemed to disappear. Now, a 9.8 and even a low 9.9 is back to winning everything.

so many people over the years got busted, including Tyson Gay & Gatlin himself, as well as several of Bolt's teammates.

Bolt's response was a bit over the top..



I still hope he's clean.

http://www.alltime-athletics.com/m_100ok.htm

Also, Blake kinda just "shows up" in 2012..

Yeah I can understand the frustration though. Ever since the Ben Johnson saga the results have always been overshadowed with suspicion.

Blake got a suspension early in his career for using stimulants. He really came out of the shadows in 2011 when he won the World Champs after Bolt's infamous false start. Unfortunately for Blake he's just had a tumultuous time with injuries and as a sprinter to get to your peak you need to be injury free and sustain that. Michael Johnson apart from his speed and being up until recently the world's greatest 200/400m sprinter in history was very fortunate in that he was durable and didn't have many injuries along the way.

With regards to Gatlin of course I agree that it's a pity he has used PEDs in the past. However, you've got to admire his resilience to come back after 2 doping bans and still being a force in his mid 30's. A lot of other people would've received a 4 year ban and given it all away and nobody would blame them.