He hasn't even hit his peak yet, when the time is right and he feels he's at his best then he will show us something even more amazing than what he has already done. He is only 24 after all. You can not for one second say that what he has already achieved is not a real sporting achievement, saying that is just ludicrous!!Usain Bolt thinks he's good enough to play for United
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He hasn't even hit his peak yet, when the time is right and he feels he's at his best then he will show us something even more amazing than what he has already done. He is only 24 after all. You can not for one second say that what he has already achieved is not a real sporting achievement, saying that is just ludicrous!!I couldn't give a **** how he trains. He does what works for him, what keeps breaking records and winning comps
Just like I'd prefer Tiger Woods to get back having sex with 20 odd women so that his golf gets back on track.
If you think that what he has achieved so far is nothing short of amazing then there is something wrong with you tbh.
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He is the fastest man on the planet. Genes or not, he must be doing something right...
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Find it hard to believe someone thinks he isn't one of the greatest sportsmen of all time because he's allegedly a bit lazy in training (which we don't know is true anyway)?!
The guy has taken a tenth of a second off the 100m record in one go and thrashed the 'unbeatable' 200m record which a legend like Michael Johnson set. He won 3 gold medals in one Olympics at aged 21/22 and 3 golds in one world championships and all before the age of 25.
If he's wasting his career I'd like to know what he could have done better!
The guy has taken a tenth of a second off the 100m record in one go and thrashed the 'unbeatable' 200m record which a legend like Michael Johnson set. He won 3 gold medals in one Olympics at aged 21/22 and 3 golds in one world championships and all before the age of 25.
If he's wasting his career I'd like to know what he could have done better!
He might be act laid back, but to call usain bolt lazy is laughable. The Jamaicans train HARD.
To be honest, I don't doubt that if he had put his training into football/cricket/(insert other sport here) at a young age he wouldnt be at the top of those sports too.
To be even more controversial, in my opinion Usain Bolt is more talented than any premiership football player. He is not just the best runner ever, he is the best runner by a mile.
To be honest, I don't doubt that if he had put his training into football/cricket/(insert other sport here) at a young age he wouldnt be at the top of those sports too.
To be even more controversial, in my opinion Usain Bolt is more talented than any premiership football player. He is not just the best runner ever, he is the best runner by a mile.
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Is there not a bit of a question mark about Jamaican training methods?
I may be totally wrong as im not a huge athletics fan but im sure I read that Jamaican athletes used to train in the US and were subjected to year round drug-testing but then there was a big training facility opened in Jamaica that doesnt drug test in the off-season and suddenly Jamaica started producing loads of top class athletes?
Anyone know anything about this or is it a load of nonsense? Happy to be corrected!
I may be totally wrong as im not a huge athletics fan but im sure I read that Jamaican athletes used to train in the US and were subjected to year round drug-testing but then there was a big training facility opened in Jamaica that doesnt drug test in the off-season and suddenly Jamaica started producing loads of top class athletes?
Anyone know anything about this or is it a load of nonsense? Happy to be corrected!
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what has any of that got to do with being good enough to play for manchester united?
the guy can run, nobody has said that he cannot run, but running does not make you a professional footballer playing for a team which won their domestic title and came second in the champions league this year.
the guy is extremely ignorant and has obviously been smoking crack to the point he thinks he is GOD.
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Football is a technical sport, running is not to anywhere near the same degree. He has shown no technical ability in football. He will never ever be good enough to play for Man Utd unless he has been training every day for 20 years secretly. That doesn't mean he won't, because these days anyone will put on a circus show for enough money.
This is like Michael Phelps claiming he will play for the Hungarian National Water Polo team. Yes he is faster in the water than the team, in a straight line, but that is it. He can't do anything with the ball, he won't be able to turn, he can't swim with the ball, and it is a guarantee that there WILL be players who are able to give him a run for his money midway through the first half in terms of pace. Players like Garath Bale or Rommedahl who spend half the game running sub-11 second pace for 100m WILL be able to give Usain Bolt a run for his money pacewiae on a football pitch, even if they can't do it on a track.
This is like Michael Phelps claiming he will play for the Hungarian National Water Polo team. Yes he is faster in the water than the team, in a straight line, but that is it. He can't do anything with the ball, he won't be able to turn, he can't swim with the ball, and it is a guarantee that there WILL be players who are able to give him a run for his money midway through the first half in terms of pace. Players like Garath Bale or Rommedahl who spend half the game running sub-11 second pace for 100m WILL be able to give Usain Bolt a run for his money pacewiae on a football pitch, even if they can't do it on a track.
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Pretty sure he said that this was because he thought Chicken Nuggets from McDo were less likely to cause him any stomach issues/safe option from food poisoning compared to the rest of the Olympic Village..
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The laziness issue is something that appears to be common in athletics, and particularly in sprinters.
There is no reason why Usain Bolt couldn't also run the 400m. After all, it is common in swimming to see swimmers compete in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle, in fact Pieter van den Hoogenband managed to win medal in all 3 distances at the 2000 Olympics - which would essentially be the equivalent of someone winning the 200m, 400m and 800m on the track given that swimming is roughly 4x slower than running. There are even more swimmers who specialise in the 50 and 100 and would jump at the chance to race a 25m race if it existed (which would last about 10 seconds - so the equivalent of the 100m sprint on track). Scaling up distances is done in swimming, why is it never attempted on track? Ian Thorpe managed to be world class in every distance from 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m.
You may argue that swimming is a vastly more technical sport than running, which would be true, so perhaps that is why - ie the person with the best technique will have a massive advantage inherently regardless of their physical attribute.
Jonathon Edwards is another sprinter who was deemed to be lazy in training, he would literally refuse to run more than 100m repeats during training. Usain Bolt runs up to 600m repeats. Edwards is also another athlete who could have done multiple events but didnt bother. Edwards really should have been the first white man to break 10seconds in the 100m, he would have probably had a shot at winning the 1992 Olympic 100m if he bothered to run and train for it - his PB would have been good enough to get in the final despite never running it properly. His max running speed has been measured at 11.9m/s.. Usain Bolt's is 12.3m/s. Yet he didn't do it, why? He probably could have entered weight lifting events as well if he wanted too... Although you may argue that he is justified given how good his WR is in the triple jump.
Instead of braking 10 seconds, he left it to Christophe Lemaitre to be the first white man to do it last year. I think he is also the youngest man ever to do it (I think he did it at 19 or about a week after he turned 20). He has already PBed this year again at 9.96, and given where other sprinters are in their times you have to wonder whether there is a possibility he could take a significant chunk off that if he tapers for the world champs. But even if he doesn't, it isn't unrealistic for him to take off 0.1s by London 2012 to be down at 9.86 and start getting into the territory where he can run sub-10 with his eyes closed, which would mean he would be in a great chance of making the final in 2012, then anything can happen... but no, he just wants to run the 200m and the 200m only. Why? He is still only 20 so anything is possible by 2016.
There is no reason why Usain Bolt couldn't also run the 400m. After all, it is common in swimming to see swimmers compete in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle, in fact Pieter van den Hoogenband managed to win medal in all 3 distances at the 2000 Olympics - which would essentially be the equivalent of someone winning the 200m, 400m and 800m on the track given that swimming is roughly 4x slower than running. There are even more swimmers who specialise in the 50 and 100 and would jump at the chance to race a 25m race if it existed (which would last about 10 seconds - so the equivalent of the 100m sprint on track). Scaling up distances is done in swimming, why is it never attempted on track? Ian Thorpe managed to be world class in every distance from 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m.
You may argue that swimming is a vastly more technical sport than running, which would be true, so perhaps that is why - ie the person with the best technique will have a massive advantage inherently regardless of their physical attribute.
Jonathon Edwards is another sprinter who was deemed to be lazy in training, he would literally refuse to run more than 100m repeats during training. Usain Bolt runs up to 600m repeats. Edwards is also another athlete who could have done multiple events but didnt bother. Edwards really should have been the first white man to break 10seconds in the 100m, he would have probably had a shot at winning the 1992 Olympic 100m if he bothered to run and train for it - his PB would have been good enough to get in the final despite never running it properly. His max running speed has been measured at 11.9m/s.. Usain Bolt's is 12.3m/s. Yet he didn't do it, why? He probably could have entered weight lifting events as well if he wanted too... Although you may argue that he is justified given how good his WR is in the triple jump.
Instead of braking 10 seconds, he left it to Christophe Lemaitre to be the first white man to do it last year. I think he is also the youngest man ever to do it (I think he did it at 19 or about a week after he turned 20). He has already PBed this year again at 9.96, and given where other sprinters are in their times you have to wonder whether there is a possibility he could take a significant chunk off that if he tapers for the world champs. But even if he doesn't, it isn't unrealistic for him to take off 0.1s by London 2012 to be down at 9.86 and start getting into the territory where he can run sub-10 with his eyes closed, which would mean he would be in a great chance of making the final in 2012, then anything can happen... but no, he just wants to run the 200m and the 200m only. Why? He is still only 20 so anything is possible by 2016.
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If he goes into football with injuries and such which are most likely to happen at some time or another he'll no longer be fast, like what happened to micheal owen, so then he'll be left with nothing.
I think hes delusional and hes risking everything, if I was fastest man in the world, I'd like to continue running and continue being fast for rest of my life.
He'd be devastated if he brakes his leg in football because someone slide tackled him and he fell in an awkward position, or messed up his ACL.
Bolt is saying after he is done with Athletics he'd want to play football, not right now or when he's at his peak.
Re Bolt and other events, I'm sure there was a paper published just after the Beijing Olympics that shown that it could be possible for Bolt to get the long jump WR with his speed he manages over such a small distance, and he could easily do the 400m if he trained a bit for it and I think he could easily, like really easily smash the WR in that, his PB is 45.28 and that was when he was 20!
Re Bolt and other events, I'm sure there was a paper published just after the Beijing Olympics that shown that it could be possible for Bolt to get the long jump WR with his speed he manages over such a small distance, and he could easily do the 400m if he trained a bit for it and I think he could easily, like really easily smash the WR in that, his PB is 45.28 and that was when he was 20!