Yes, he false started and thank goodness the blocks slipped so he used that situation to his benefit! I love me some Fred Kerley!! I just hope he gets a new sponsor and puts it down on the track in Paris.
Fred deliberately false started to advertise his new Puma brand and partnership. It worked. He had bright orange Puma shoes that got everyone's attention, the false started, then tripped, then removed his shoes, then held them in hand running to the locker room. All eyes on his shoes, bam. What a genius! lol
Never understood why Kerley & Fahnbulleh took such a risk in signing with a primarily distance shoe company in the first place as they haven't been the same since the '22 season! Or could just be a coincidence!
It was reported that his ASICS contract was worth up to $10m spread out five years? So he probably got paid $4m the last two years. That said, Nike may have the best spikes but their contracts are awfully low.
@@perspective8369They still are but now they have more competition in distance running. However, they’ve expanded and got the formula right for pretty every other category of track & field footwear
@@Brave-828That’s true for their sponsorship deals in other sports as well. They only offer good personalized deals to the best of the best. I remember seeing Christian Coleman being the only Nike athlete with his own unique gear, while every other Nike athlete gets the same uniforms and shoes
Raestake said 5 days before the NYC grand Prix that there would be an event at the meet that everyone in T&F news outlets would be talking about for weeks. It was this. Fred has been having ongoing issues with Asics and this was his way of making it publicly known. He spoke of breaking the WR in his next race to draw more eyes to the event. He then wore Puma spikes while being an Asics athlete, then he blatantly false started and ended up with a DNS due to faulty blocks. People have speculated for the longest that Asics aren't good for sprinters and it makes sense when you look at their sponsored athletes and what they did before they were forced to wear their spikes. Fahnbulleh went from running 19.8 to never breaking 20 again, and Fred went from 9.76 to a not breaking 10 yet this season. I'm interested to see what spikes he wears at trials and how fast he will go
If this is factual, it’s the most insightful response to a YT T&F video I’ve ever read. I’m no shoe inspector expert but I know those bright yellow shoes got my attention and I’m guessing they got ASICS attention, too.
Sooo what does wearing bad spikes from Asics have to do with poor performances from Fahnbulleh or Kerley? Shouldn't they be able to run great times even if they were running barefeet? I'm not buying this Asics smear campaign.
Could it be that he knew he false started and thought leaving the track was the better option? No idea why he tried to deny it later though, he clearly jumped early, loose blocks or not.
Looked like an intentional false start and the situation went wrong. He wanted to false start himself out of the race and be done with Asics. But the blocks slipped and caused another situation that interrupted his plan to false start and get dq'd. So, he just left anyway. The puma thing might just be a slap in the face to asics.
Ever since he left Nike back in 2022, dude hasn’t done anything of note ever since. Remember, Fred has a condition where he has one foot that’s larger than the other, so the type of shoes he uses probably does matter. Him going back to Nike would probably be the smart move since he had the most success with their shoes
So I was at the competition and he had the false starting issue twice with the first one two of the athletes ran almost to the finish line. Then the second time it occurred everyone thought he was going to be DQ’ed but the official gave him the opportunity to start again. All the other athletes were still stretching and then he just ran off.
Seems to me ANYONE whose blocks slip should get a second start whether that person false started or not. Perhaps that is the way Fred Kerley saw things as well.
False start or not, the blocks were indeed moving. Even when Noah ran 200 before they ran one of them was doijg some starts and the block slipped. Every blockstart in that 200 m was replaced
Thing is, you can't game Bolt's record with just a few hundredths, and your reaction can't be under 10 hundredths, so what the hell was he thinking anyway?
His blocks were trash and I don't blame him for protecting himself from potential injury considering the blocks slipped on him and for the runner in Lane 1. Smart move Fred!!! Champions know how to protect themselves!
3:14 I guess Kerley wanted the super spikes back he never ran truly fast in the ASICS I think his PR in them was 9.89 seconds and even then I’m not sure if he was using their spikes them
Fahnbulleh hasn’t broken 20 in them either. The moment he ran in Maxfly’s after World’s Eugene for his birthday, while under ASICS, that was one of his fastest times that year. Edit: just checked, he ran 20.08. Still faster than a majority of his times from that year at Florida and through Eugene.
@@Andrew-ry9be Another person that’s missing the superspikes This has been the greatest piece of advertisement for Nike honestly, Jacobs and ETH speed dropoff since they left Nike also is something too
I went to New Balance Nationals for the 4x800 and competed a couple days ago. Yesterday I ran into a teammate of Christian Miller. Christian had run in the 100m semi finals and ran 9.95 (+1.2), but didn’t run finals. His teammate told me it was because he had Olympic trials coming up😂. I didn’t personally see the 9.95 happen. I just remember checking in for the 4x800 and hearing a couple people say “HE JUST RAN 9.96”(later adjusted to 9.95)
That's not entirely fair though mate, is it? Can you say the blocks slipped AND he false started? But I'll lead with fun conspiracy before boring rules which I appreciate and respect you can't fully unravel here yourself in a video. thank you as always for the work in getting ppls brains going on such an interesting "inside baseball" nuance of the weird world of sprinting. it's a fascinating rabbit hole to fall into so I appreciate the platform you make. Consider he made a show of appearing on track with those orange shoes on at 9 at night on twitter the same day he DNS the 100m. what if he did make a simple error thinking it would be alright to race in his pumas. then right after saw the backlash and ran with it, no pun. Or what if was a bit of both - i bet he did lose his luggage. COULD he have found asics... probably haha but maybe he wanted out. i mean, showing up in bright ass orange spikes is the way to do it after all that hype he built. could they have been on thin ice as a partnership as is? seeing at how fast the citius founder leaked the news. I mean asics sure as hell wasn't waiting or shying away from announcing this - optics be damned.but this is irrelevant to the ruling that would protect from a "false start " as defined by USATF. now the boring stuff. What you can't deny is his blocks slid DRAMATICALLY on his right leg which is his back leg. I find it strange ppl are pretending that didn't happen. it's insanely obvious haha. now would that make you false start? well, I can totally get if you say no. people are saying something along the lines "you have to start to know the blocks are going to slip" which in that logic it's a chicken and egg. no start, no slip. But if the block has an issue with the seating position or I've seen the angled spikes used to plant the blocks be worn down, you can imagine how a subtle slide of your extended leg might trigger an athlete to panic a bit and initiate a launch. I lost my senior year A10 100m final in 2012 via a gd loose Gill pedal from lane 4 too ffs. TFRRS can confirm haha. But if you wanted to think cynically... even if he DID manage to hold it with a loose pedal or atleast compromised block on that right pedal side, and THEN start after the signal, he's obviously going to slip anyway. we'd be in the EXACT same spot under what I think even a narrow interpretation of USATF rule 162.16 covers. i'll reference the "unfair start" rhetoric they use but just wanted full disclosure on the actual rule you could invoke here. Full disclosure, I couldn't confirm 100% the governing rule set but it was at Ichan stadium right so normally when I've seen that under USATF. That could be wrong so please correct me accordingly. But I'll use that as the example bc I think it's correct - on page 66 of the The 2024 USATF competition handbook Rule 162 (16). Since we can clearly see and agree his blocks DID move, no doubt about it on the right block, then we have to read the actual rule on recalling & false starting. Specifically I want to cite the "note" section rather than simple quote the rulebook which you can look up the page cited. This, IMO, is why this falls under what the USATF a "fall": 𝑁𝑂𝑇𝐸: 𝐸𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒 242.5, 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟, 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓' 𝑜𝑛 "𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑠". 𝐴𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛 "𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡" 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡. 𝐴 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑛𝑑 10 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 "𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑦" 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒. Since Fred was within the stated 10m mark still, and if we do agree the block moved, then in the very least you can see how that's an "unfair start". What is your objection to this? It seems pretty cut and dry a loose or compromised block has had a precedent to be called an "unfair start". Now this could be governed by entirely different rules. i'm open to that. I'm open to being wrong but how isn't this an unfair start? I've felt that panic of your block moving. You may not remember to signal with your hand. in 2012 I had no forgiveness ncaa rules where you are auto DQed no running under protest so easily. But to close with fun & not being so serious, (this is entirely speculation from here on), I 100% could see if he WAS there to possibly showcase a new sponsor or atleast use this as his platform to publicly make his brand moves, he actually may have started the day trily losing his boots haha. but if that was in good faith, he made sure to not find any asics after the fact and made that be known. Remember, he did go out of his whole way to showcase a full blown start in on Twitter. could this have been to satisfy a contractual appearance officially in those bright ass orange boots? idk. but that was weird. and noteworthy atleast. You don't want to open your new partnership getting blasted after being cold. going cold is real. it's a shitty excuse if youre a collegiate runner haha but it's still a legitimate one even just injury wise. And even better if you NEED to run fast for your livelihood - I'll grant him that. let's see what puma does now. this is giving off vibes you find in the UFC angling for fights basically creating the narrative to get specific attention. Cheers bruv!
If he has parted ways with Asics, he probably is just wearing other brands because he can. This isn't an uncommon thing to see in soccer either where an unsponsored athlete will wear various brands to see what they like or dislike before signing with another brand. The puma spikes are super cool and weird so I can see him being interested in them
That’s a strange story - right up there with the story surrounding what really happened when Michael Johnson was smoked in the one on one 150m by Donovan Bailey. I don’t see Fred even making the team this year anyway, not with this drama and lack of focus.
Gigabrain move: Asics made him run the 100m per their old contract, but he really didn't want to (vengeful or just didn't work with training). So he deliberately false started in order to fulfill the contract obligations but not actually have to run.
TRP with his usual misleading info/data - it's pretty annoying that he keeps doing this, but that's who he is, I guess. Lyles ran a wind aided 9.80s last season ( @ +4.4m/s), so it doesn't count, obviously. Might as well, everytime we talk about Gatlin, say that he ran a 9.45s. Who cares with was wind aided (+20m/s) and that he false started, just put a * next to the time and deceive as many people as you can...
Seems like Kelley had trouble getting the officials to get him new starting blocks. As if they didn’t want to get any for him. The other competitor got new blocks very fast and they actually put that competitors blocks in kerley’s lane. I can understand an athletes frustration, being an athlete myself, and although I don’t believe in quitting a race the idea of running warm and fast is to run your best. Seemed as if the officials didn’t want that. There was also talk about the noise. More than a few athletes stated they couldn’t hear the gun. But all in all he did false start rather dramatically. Peace N Love
It doesn't matter what shirt or shoes the man wears. But blocks should not be slipping in world-class events - it's right for him to not bother running if they can't set up the blocks correctly.
how is this even an argument he noticed the blocks slipped cuz he attempted to start the race if he didn't try to start then how would he even have noticed he had slipping blocks in the first place
The sport of track is awesome conceptually, but the administration sux. We're talking about one of the greatest sprinters of all time, but it sounds like we're talking about a kid in high school, given the way he was treated.
I watched Kerley's attempt at his promised world record. It was just very unfortunate that he tripped over his own feet and fell on the ground then got disqualified. I don't remember Bolt using that technique. Well we'll see what he can do at the Olympic Trials assuming he didn't injure himself too badly. Fred Kerley is very good but I haven't seen any evidence that he is in Bolt's class, unless you are considering most dramatic false starts.
