Greene & Mosses say its a Blake Gold.

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Horse has Bolted: Usain won't win 100m, Olympic greats say
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July 30, 2012 - 10:04AM
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Michael Gleeson
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Confidence in Usain Bolt fading
Two Olympic greats have revealed they don't think Usain Bolt will be the sprinter taking gold in the 100m.
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Yohan Blake's recent dominance over Usain Bolt is not an anomaly — he will win London Olympics gold ahead of the fastest man in the world, two Olympic greats believe.

Maurice Greene, a former world champion and winner of two Olympic gold medals [in the 100m and 4x100m in Sydney] for the USA, said Bolt had not fixed the technical problems in his running that were apparent two years ago.

While Bolt would still comfortably win the 200m, his countryman Yohan Blake would deny Bolt the chance to win back-to-back gold medals in the 100m, Greene said.


Having their say ... Maurice Greene, left, and Edwin Moses, right, pictured here with Haile Gebrselassie. Photo: Getty Images
Fellow two-time Olympic gold medallist Edwin Moses, who captured the 400m hurdles title in Montreal and Los Angeles, has also backed Blake to beat Bolt.

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"Blake is going to win," Greene said. "Blake is just a little bit better and if you go back and look at the Jamaican trials they say Bolt had a bad start. But look at Blake too — he was right back there with Bolt, they both had bad starts and Blake was still able to come out victorious in that race. I mean, even though he [Bolt] is having slow starts he still gets second though, so he is still able to overcome some things.

"[Bolt] is healthy now, there is no problem with injuries or anything else. He is just trying to fix the problems he is having, and he has been having the problems for about two years now. He didn't fix them then [two years ago] and I haven't seen them being fixed this year, so from what it seems to me he is going to continue to have them and that is why Blake is going to win."


At the 2011 world championships, it was Yohan Blake, right, passing the baton to Usain Bolt when Jamaica set a new world record to win gold in the men's 4x100m relay. In London, will the roles be reversed?
Bolt, the reigning Olympic champion in the 100m and 200m, sensationally false started and was disqualified from defending his 100m title at last year's world championships. Blake ultimately won that title. In the recent Jamaican Olympic trials, Blake beat Bolt fair and square to reinforce his emergence as the man to beat in the sprint.

Moses also backed Blake, saying: "In track and field, we have a saying that stuff happens and you are only as good as your last race ... I am going to say Blake [to win gold]. I think he is the man to beat."

Greene agreed with recent suggestions that it was possible for the world record in the 100m to drop to as low as 9.4 seconds.

"I think it is possible, I don't think it will happen this year though. There is nobody out there who is capable of it this time I don't believe," Greene said.

"Obviously Usain has ran fast before, so he has the abilities to do it again, but now he is having so many technical problems — that is what is messing his race up. He is not in that type of form, he is not showing that type of form so I don't seeing it happening now."

Greene said it was extremely difficult to defend a title four years later and while he believed Bolt could do so in the 200m, his stronger event, he doubted he would do so in the 100m.

"The pressures of coming back to an Olympic Games is very tough, especially when you are trying to duplicate what you did four years ago. I would say to that: don't think about what you did four years ago, only think about what you are trying to do now and what you have been working on all these years. You have to focus on this, you can't be in the past."



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[Muadib]

*yawn*

[Muadib]

Greene ah read di forum !

<"Blake is going to win," Greene said. "Blake is just a little bit better and if you go back and look at the Jamaican trials they say Bolt had a bad start. But look at Blake too — he was right back there with Bolt, they both had bad starts and Blake was still able to come out victorious in that race. I mean, even though he [Bolt] is having slow starts he still gets second though, so he is still able to overcome some things.>

Yohan best start was in the heats at Trials..like a bullet.. if he replicates that start in the Final.. anything is possible.. and I mean anything..

[Skeng DX]

yuh know more bout sprinting than Greene now?

[Muadib]

why yuh ask dat ?

[Skeng DX]

<Greene ah read di forum>

[Muadib]

yuh have sense ?

[Skeng DX]

was a compliment

[Muadib]

"yuh know more bout sprinting than Greene now?"

why be disingenuous ?

[Skeng DX]

just put "WAH" before it

[Muadib]

yuh not mekking sense from day one..

start again...

Why yuh ask if I now more dan Greene about sprinting ?

[Skeng DX]

what you and Greene disagree with WAR-BOAT?

[Muadib]

I do not understand the question.. please explain what prompted you to ask if I know more about sprinting than Greene..