s30%#)!,7/2,$#(!-0)/.3()03%$)4)/.s NOVEMBER 2011 www.trackandfieldnews.com Big U.S. Medal Haul In Daegu Usain Bolt’s Stunning False Start World Record For Jamaican 4x1 As U.S. Blows Up Again Diamond League Finishes With Big Bang Kenenisa Bekele Back In 10K American Records For Galen Rupp & Joy For Lashinda Demus Team USA $3.99 US $4.50 Canada Jenny Simpson Wins 1500 Gold The most shocking moment of the World Champs may Volume 64, No. 11 have been Usain Bolt’s November 2011 false start in the 100 GIANCARLO COLOMBO/PHOTO RUN sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss 2011 Men’s World Champions Meet The Stars Subscriptions 100: Yohan Blake ....................6 50W: Sergey Bakulin ............17 Kirani James ........................8 The regular U.S. rate (2nd-class mail) is $43.95 one year, $82 two years, $120 200: Usain Bolt........................7 4 x 100: Jamaica WR .............18 Matthew Centrowitz ........11 three years. For 1st-class add $20 per year. 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The invitational circuit at its best generates goosebumps galore, but not like a title meet, where when a Usain Bolt—as if he isn’t just the UB—jumps the gun, millions gasp in unison. Team Daegu brought that spectacle—shocking but spicy for the London Olympic storyline—and myriad other unexpected morsels, most of them upbeat. Team USA made more than its share of upside moments, again leading the medals fight with 25 big, shiny disks banked. That’s just one less than the meet record hauls of ’91 & ’07 and two more than the 23-Olympic USA medal performance in Beijing that Doug Logan, USATF’s CEO at the time, said could “best be described as mixed.” Everything is relative. After Berlin’s total in ’09 dropped by another medal to 22, Logan— spinning after having promised without following through to open two new high performance training centers that year—wrote, Bound “Our medal count speaks for itself.” Really, though, the U.S. comethroughs in Daegu speak for the athletes who achieved them, their coaches and the primary font of U.S. development, our schools-based system, and not so much for any Project named 30. That’s not to entirely dismiss USATF, which has increased athlete support dollars recently, mostly through the semi-autonomous USATF For Foundation. What distinguished Daegu for the U.S. team and built momentum toward London ’12 were carpe diems by athletes whose medals were not expected. Dwight Phillips broke out of an injury funk from outside T&FN’s top-10 picks to claim his fourth long jump gold. Lashinda Demus triumphed in the 400 hurdles globally Glory after 7 years of trying. She set an AR. Jenny Simpson won and Matt Centrowitz medaled in the two 1500s, part of a rising U.S. tide. Both have collegiate coaches—Juli Benson of Air Force and Andy Powell of Oregon, where Centrowitz still has eligibility—as does high jump winner Jesse Williams in Kansas State’s Cliff Rovelto. Williams and triple jump medalists Christian Taylor and Will Claye, only just departed from NCAA competition at Florida, got it right in two jumps where recent results had been, to borrow an adjective, mixed. Ahead of London, U.S. fans can dream Christian Taylor led an improbable optimistically. Add a medal each in the men’s 400 hurdles and shot, where we still have huge guns, pray that Jenn Suhr approaches 1–3 in the triple jump as the U.S. her vault best at the Games, get the men’s relay stick around, and you’re looking at 29 produced many surprises at the medals without even expecting Tyson Gay, David Oliver, Sanya Richards-Ross or Jeremy World Championships Wariner to get all the way back on track. While every year is different, it’s fun to dream. And to celebrate surprises, as in Daegu. November 2011 — 5 MEN’S 100 METERS When the Bolt-less race went off—also without Blake Fills Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell, history’s Nos. 2 & 3, who withdrew before the meet with injuries—Collins, in lane 3, seized the moment. In For The TCU alum led Blake by 6 inches at 20 meters, with Jamaican Nesta Carter and surprising Frenchman Bolt Jimmy Vicaut next. Dix and French Record- holder Christophe Lemaitre were both left in the blocks with reaction times (0.175 & 0.179) sluggish compared to Carter’s 0.154 and Collins’ 0.155. While Carter Blake’s margin mysteriously slowed and over Dix at jogged in after the first 25 meters, Collins held onto his the finish was lead till halfway, whereupon Blake blew past in lane 6 to 0.16, 0.01 from a meter lead at 80 meters, a the largest meter-and-a-half at 90 and close to 2 meters over Dix and ever in a WC Collins at the finish. Initially left in the blocks, Dix lagged equal-3rd with Vicaut at halfway, 4 feet behind Collins. But he cut Collins’ margin to a foot at 90 meters and eliminated it MARK SHEARMAN 4 meters out to take silver by some 4 inches. After starting last, Lemaitre used 70 meters to sprint into 4th, then held it to by Sieg Lindstrom going to throw Usain out, because he’s Usain,” the line over Daniel Bailey, 10.19–10.26. By the strict definition, no one—not even said Dix, just one of about 30,000 in the stadium Said Blake, 21, “I’ve been waiting for this Usain Bolt—becomes a legend in his time. who entertained some variation of that thought. moment my whole life. I’ve always been Your story has to be passed down to future “But they threw him out. It definitely made us working just to be a world champion and it’s generations and it helps if some of it is refocus and run under the clock.” a dream come true.” unverifiably superhuman. The key verifiable fact of the 100 final here was that Jamaican Don’t Cry For Me Jamaica “To me, it was all my fault. A few people came Yohan Blake won gold in 9.92 after to me and said Blake twitched, but Blake is a his superstar training partner, “Looking for tears? Not going to happen,” wonderful athlete. He worked hard, and to me, goofing very much like a human, Usain Bolt told an Associated Press reporter—a he worked even harder than me this season. He false-started 0.104 seconds before rare scribe he didn’t dodge—as he left the stadium really put a lot of work in. the gun. after his false start in the 100 jolted the sport. “There’ve been times I’ve gone to his room to Knowing instantly he had After his 200 win, though, he was eager to see him and he’s doing abs, back exercises and blown it, the defending champion explain. “Throughout the season I was really stuff like that. So to me, if anybody deserves to and World Record holder tore off working hard on my start,” he said.