First of all i'm quite disappointed at the lack of competition in the 100m race. It would have been nice to have guys like Gatlin,Gay, Chambers but unfortunately injury woes (i'm really sad for Gay on this one) and doping scandals seemed to have got the upper hand.
My 2nd disappointment is in Asafa Powell... The guy has got a very weak mentality but unfortunately not everyone is as confident as Phelps or Bolt.
Apart from Bolt, nobody ran the way they should have or normally could have. Some have waited 4 years only to end up lightyears behind the leader... How is this so? Stress/pressure, intimidation, fear, lack of self-condidence, lack of training (some have been critical about the american olympic trials... the complaint has been that it is not beneficiary for the athletes to have their trials a months before the games... correct me if i'm wrong)... I don't know.
Now i come to the main topic. Yes I was dumbfounded, as were you all whole saw the race live on tv or in China. I was already impressed at the way he Bolt could take the time to look sideways, control his speed, slow down and still run under 10s. Jeez it looked like he was jogging in the heats and semis. The final race was one of the greatest i've ever seen and after my delirious reaction to the "way" he finished the race, I opened my eyes:
Yes, he won his race in the most amazing fashion ever seen in history of the discipline but was it necessary to slow down and show the "wings of glory" (it's not an official term btw! lol)? T$For me that was a lack of olympic spirit and a lack of respect to his adversaries no matter how much slower they were than he was. The Olympics are about doing your best from start to finis not showing the world how "wack" your opponents are and how fantabulous your talent us (ok it is about that but not in such a self-centered manner). Bravo to you Usain, but I would have preferred you to lower the record (as you obvioulsy could have), congradulate your opponents, (maybe console your country men) and then go for your victory run. There was more media and showing-off in his victory than there was morals and, fair-play and olympic spirit.
I'm not even american but Usain could learn a lot from true champions that give it their best ALL the time like Phelps. The day someone beats you (and i'm hoping it'll be Asafa) the WHOLE world will remember the 16th of August '08.
[QUOTE="Burnsmiesta"]I heard there is a nice little bonus waiting everytime your able to beat the WR. Perhaps that explains it?Delongman
Still not a valid reason...
that's a hell of a valid reason. if he is the best and is able to pace himself and set the world record many times over then he sure as hell has the right. just because you have an idea of what an olympic athelete is doesn't make it the right idea.
Olympics Spirit is a marketing slogan nothing more. But if You belive in it I think that you should be more concern about war in Georgia than athlete who started to celebrate a second too early.
It was his first olympics.He's very young,and everyone doubted him and didn't expect him to win.He was just glad he proved them wrong and overy happy that he won.Yeah his behavior was stupid,but I don't think he meant to taunt anyone.
You wan to see bad sportsmanship? Watch the semifinals of the Mens 100m dash 4 years ago.
its insane, how is that even humanly possible, to be the worlds best and be running the last 10m celebrating. I think your getting to upset over it though, it was strange, but nothing was wrong with what he did. None of the other athelets seemed annoyed by it, silver was as happy as ever
He seemed a little stand-offish when he was being interviewed last night by one of the American guys. Kept saying he was happy with himself, which seemed to be the answer to like three questions in a row. And he didn't seem that excited to have just won. Dunno, maybe it's just me.
It was his first olympics.He's very young,and everyone doubted him and didn't expect him to win.He was just glad he proved them wrong and overy happy that he won.Yeah his behavior was stupid,but I don't think he meant to taunt anyone.
You wan to see bad sportsmanship? Watch the semifinals of the Mens 100m dash 4 years ago.
It was his first olympics.He's very young,and everyone doubted him and didn't expect him to win.He was just glad he proved them wrong and overy happy that he won.Yeah his behavior was stupid,but I don't think he meant to taunt anyone.
You wan to see bad sportsmanship? Watch the semifinals of the Mens 100m dash 4 years ago.
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He started to celebrate 15 meters before he finished the race...and still somehow managed to destroy the World Record.Which is near impossible in a 100m Dash.
There is nothing wrong with what he did. He was just happy. We was not being a bad sport. If he had turned around and started running backwards then there would be a problem.
I think what he did was just fine I mean he just won a gold medal at the olympics in WORLD record time and completely destroyed his competition I think that is something to celebrate.
I think what he did was just fine I mean he just won a gold medal at the olympics in WORLD record time and completely destroyed his competition I think that is something to celebrate.SeanUD1
There would have been nothing wrong wwith celebrating at the end of the race... You guys can say whatever you want but his gesture was clearly not of a respectful athlete. WHO wouldn't be happy to be the fastest man on earth aand destroy the other sprinters in a disgraceful manner? I talk of spirit because it's not every olympics that you get sprinters running the way Bolt does or celebrating before the end... Every athlete puts their heart into it from start to end regardless of the circumstances... Bolt looks to the right to see if Asafa is coming up to defy him and celebrates when he realises his superiority.
I do not condemn his performance, it's just his attitude that uncanny. I give him all praise for what he has done to athletics (especially showing that tall guys, like me, can sprint as fast (we now faster) as shorter one. I hope he matures in his later stages as an athlete and that he gives a little respect to his oppponents.
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