The fuck is going wrong with our sprinting program?
Yeah, Bolt is a freak and roids or no roids, he's just like Phelps in that he has a big physical advantage. He's the best easily on a level playing field.
But when a 35 year old Justin Gaitlin is STILL our best sprinter, you know the program is weak.
And Merritt gets blown out by Grenada (Van Niekerk was the favorite). Merritt is also past his prime.
Where's the next generation going to come from? Tired of losing to these island nations.
(Yuros can keep quiet here. You're beyond shit in these events).
Gavin Nelson
manlets
Isaiah Ward
All USA's runners go into basketball or gridiron.
Grayson Gray
>You're beyond shit in these events For the same reason you lose in it. Nobody trains to be sprinters, there's no good sprinting program going (atleast nowhere near Jamaicas level) and everybody who's athletically gifted goes into other stuff.
Daniel Martin
Just force a rule where a small car with a red and blue siren run next to them, you know kind like the rabbit in dog races but behind them and your jamals will break the 9 second mark.
Isaac Johnson
(that's not being snarky, but imagine you're a freak athlete like Bolt in the US. You're sure as shit not going to focus on sprinting.- you'll be a running back or a PF)
Jose Ward
sorry, all our other athlete are kicking ass in every other sport that americans care about.
Justin Hughes
No, This is American coping. Expected more from a Brit tbqh. Chris Johnson has the NFL fastest auto time 40 and he didn't even win his state high school meet due to Walter Dix. The same Walter Dix who only got third in 2008 and has done nothing since.
Colton Gutierrez
Gatlin would be Bolt if Bolt weren't around, of you know what I mean. He'd have been dominant for several years. Usain is just a freak waaaay ahead of schedule.
Cameron Wright
You need to televise athletics events and actually get people to watch it. There is too much money in Fatball and Apehoop
Zachary Phillips
They keep getting shot.
Adrian Stewart
Gatlin was worse than Powell
Leo Thompson
We still produced the 2nd fastest man and 2nd fastest woman over 100m in these games, but fuck that.
I know Bolt is a once-in-generation talent, so I'm not worried about beating him, more concerned with how there is no young sprinters coming through the pipeline. Bolt's successor will likely be Jamaican.
It's possible they are all going to basketball and football, but Jamaica and these other island nations have 100,000 to 2 million people, and produced elite sprinters seemingly every Olympics.
Owen Rodriguez
It's even when you look at things per capita.
Matthew Sanchez
This. Follow the money.
Jonathan Martin
>It's even worse when you look at things per capita.
Bentley Nguyen
our fastest citizens are blacks from the south, and they all play football because at the very least you get a D1 scholarship and play on tv
Sebastian Brooks
Worse for you. Not one medal in any sprinting event thus far.
Dominic Perez
American football is a zero skill sport that can easily swallow any talented young athletes.
Evan Carter
America's sprinting problem is arrogance
Tyler Smith
Nope, it is, to a large extent, true. People are pushed towards basketball/football early as it is more popular and there is more prestige. To be good at bball/hsfb, you'll likely end up worse at athletics.
David Brooks
TAKE THOSE GOLD CHAINS OFF YOU STUPID NIGGERS YOURE NOT SLAVES ANYMORE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Mason Young
Because track stars put on 20 pounds to become football players. If bolt was born in america he would have been recruited to a D1 college and be a shitty 3rd string rb somewhere right now making 10x the money what he does now
James Harris
>Bolt's successor will likely be Jamaican
weird because he doesn't look Jamaican
Alexander Campbell
Bolt makes around $30m+ a year in sponsorships.
Yohan Blake/Justin Gatlin would be making more money in the NFL/NBA
Eli Williams
>6 foot 5 >running back
nope
Lincoln Phillips
>a leaf >named degrasse >is nog
David Powell
Well, I think he would be better than that but ya, pretty much this. Everyone in the US knows who Bolt is. But just like Phelps, Walsh-Jennings, the judo chick etc. we only care about them once every 4 years. Track here is really just a high school and college thing, if someone is really good they get recruited into other sports where they can actually make money.
Samuel Turner
>he expects a 100m gold medalist to be white topestkek
Ryan Baker
Wt* are you talking about? PF as in power forward? They're between 6'8" and 6'11". Bolt is very tall for a sprinter, but he's 6'5".
Westbrook is the best example of a potential sprinter I can think of who's in the NBA. Some baseball players could be sprinters too. Billy Hamilton comes to mind.
Jason Thomas
Bolt is actually an exception, he makes a lot of money from endorsements. This would be true for the rest of athletes though.
Asher Cook
t. cuck
Logan Mitchell
I'll fucking kill you. Don't ever insult me again.
Brayden Young
Doping is a hell of a drug.
anyone saying track isn't an important sport in america is braindead it has plenty of participation but sadly no doping program.
Matthew Ross
All the talent goes to the NBA and NFL
Blake Long
This desu
Daniel Sanders
didnt realize bolt made so much
Hudson Harris
Reminder that bolt wanted to be a football player (soccer for Yanks) but wasn't good enough so became a sprinter
Carson Bailey
>caught many times >america doesn't dope
William Thomas
getting harder and harder to find a non obese burger
Samuel Howard
You should just focus on field events since you have so many fat people. Shaniqua won gold for shot put
Jaxon Gutierrez
>BTFO in every prelim heat >thinks his opinon matters
Hunter Gonzalez
maybe they get caught because they don't have a doping program
Jaxson Nguyen
>america >sadly no doping program HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
are you serious? Plenty of your sprinters have been caught doping. If anything, America has one of the best doping programs of all countries, seeing as they manage to pass their athletes through with undetectable substances and high-end cycling through training seasons.
Joseph Phillips
Literally yr7 tier humour. Up your game Argie
Kevin Walker
are we arguing about doping? lol literally everyone dopes in these sports
Chase Young
Bumblasted nignog detected
Andrew Walker
yes he does
David Green
>some baseball players could be sprinters
they'd have to become athletes first.
Jace James
Don't you guys realize that if a program is truly good at doping, there will be no trace of it? The ones who get busted are the bad programs.
Juan Williams
There's a difference between systematic doping and doping as a personal choice you inbred mountain nigger
Christopher Ward
nigger detected
Chase Kelly
Idk much about track & field, but aren't we more historically dominant in the 400m distance?
What happened to our elite athletes there
Kayden Stewart
Idiot, Russia has state sponsored and facilitated doping program. The KGB and FSB are known to have a hand in the doping of their athletes. When American athletes dope it's done on an individual basis. There is no "American doping program". It's a bunch of hyper-competitive assholes cheating for their own sake.
Elijah Morgan
Lance Armstrong saga begs to differ. Sure the state wasn't involved, but that was extremely well organized.
Hunter Richardson
>who is Billy Hamilton, Byron Buxton, Michael Bourn, Dee Gordon, Carl Crawford
Etc. For every Prince Fielder there are 4 or 5 great all around athletes. Baseball is boring as fuck but this is a tired meme
Dylan Ward
Given Bolt is most certainly doped, do you think Gatlin is clean now?
Aaron Murphy
Of course not
Asher Jenkins
>35 year old Justin Gaitlin is STILL our best sprinter because of roids
Ryan Young
LAS
Jace Roberts
>Gatlin >clean >any year
He got a better dealer.
Michael Perez
Isn't his mother Jamaican? Regardless seeing Bolt acting like senpai to him in the semi and after the final made me feel fuzzy inside
Daniel Torres
>The fuck is going wrong with our sprinting program?
people only care once every four years
Luke Bailey
Our freak athletes go on to play football and basketball because thats where the fame and money is. Back when they used the accelerometers in a couple games they measured reggie bush running nearly as fast as usain bolt during a game wearing pads and carrying a ball. if these guys trained 'sprint' for a year they'd absolutely dominate.
Carter Robinson
They keep coming up with new undetectable methods, for example blood packing to boost endurance. The only detection for it is the chemicals left over in your blood stream from the plastic IV bags, however they can switch to glass to hold the blood instead of bags and it would be totally undetectable.
Eventually they will have an accurate test to measure red blood cells and every athelete will have 10x the normal amount, mass busts. Probably Tokyo 2020
Jordan Jenkins
This is because Track x Field is what every highschool in jamaica does and they can snatch out the fast one's young and train them. US doesn't have this kind of system, if you're super atheletic you get snatched into college football/basketball since that's where the money is.
Jackson Price
Bolt runs 100m in 8.7 seconds when he has a running start. Nobody can do that