What They Never Told You About Usain Bolt... 

43.21 or 42.89

wouldve bullied mo farah for sure hahahaha

I agree

I think he could’ve broke 43

If he had focused his training towards it? Under 43.

Yeah, I chose the world record for being a couch potato.

@@aspenrebel tough luck because you have me as a competitor

@@typhoontyph yeah but I hold the WR. It is Saturday at 2 pm, and I just got out of bed. So ...... phhhhhllllpppptttt!😜

You guys are challenging me for couch potato wr?

@@NflCfbFan nope! I already own it!!

@Joe Bloggs drugs bro??

@Joe Bloggs how? Bolt was getting money to fly to race events. He never had money. Yall see the money now and just think all sort of shit. Jamaica is not a rich country. So no way they could afford drugs. Unlike USA and Russia

@Joe Bloggs no evidence no proof, pathetic to believe speculations are real facts like you talk right now, it has no fundamental basis and he has never even been suspected of using drugs unlike say, asafa powell etc

Too bad sprint training is harder

@Joe Bloggs too bad i cant waste my time on bullshit excuse me

If you were a parent of one of the other athletes you’d swear somebody faked his birth certificate.

The same way he made one of the greatest generations of Olympic male sprinters look like children basically. It's only becoming apparent now, with nobody within the same galaxy as his records nearly 12 years after he set them, just how insane he truly was.

@@malligrub well said.

Not so funny, majority of U20 records are adult level marks, the 400 and 800 won Olympic gold and silver. And like the vast majority of U20 records, they remain the athletes lifetime PR. These guys have simply matured early.

He had the advantage of the physique. Not to take away his achievements in those days though.

All events are equally prestigious

@@SanskarTOP_G Bolt would have never been the superstar he is, had he focused on the 400m( even if combined with 200m) It is a shame, but without a doubt

@@SanskarTOP_G Yea, name some hammer throwers or race walkers without goggling

@@GVS Dude,I just wanna say that every event is equally difficult and challenging. Athletes competing in shorter sprints are not superior over other athletes.

@@SanskarTOP_G equally prestigious to the athlete, but not to the casual fan unfortunately. it's like their attention span only lasts 9.58 seconds lol

It is very brutal

@@stevendig9164 The longer the distance, the more challenging it is.

@@youngchild9294 not necessarily.

@@stevendig9164 Correct. I compete in athletics on a low level and absolutely hate 400m. I consider myself a sprinter and at 15 years of age and at 5 foot 6 inches, I can run the 100m in 13 flat and 200m in 26.5, decent for my size and level I compete and train at. That being said about the 400m, I am also a decent distance runner being able to run the 800m in 2:35. The longer the distance doesn't always mean being more difficult. Although I'm not an insane runner like other people or Usain at his age and especially his massive height but still quite competitive, training for 400m is an absolute killer and I don't even know my PB in it as I never do it as it is out of my capabilities and I don't train for it. Bolt however chose well to focus on 100m and 200m, more people enjoy it both as spectators and running it as amateurs as it is easier and catches more attention. 100m is the holy grail of athletics if you win it at the Olympics and hold the WR.

@@tomo385_gaming how would you suggest me to increase in speed i am part kenyan, togolese (by parents) and tanzanian and nigerian by ancestry currently at 5 foot 9 15'n half/"and an half") i can run, and i used to be the fastest kid at school, there was one kid who was like around/about 30 cm's taller, and he had stamina and was in good shape pluss not lazy though i didn't drink water at all back than, if i drank much it would be like 200ml a day 300ml maybe, max at best also had a throat problem, i would allways gasp for air but my throat would burn heavily i-d-on't k-now exactly why, but it was a sort of unnatural medical condition but it went away overtime i bassicly see high/or allot of potential in myself but i am just about to wonder/walk into what my body can do now just about 1,5 years later after not running btw i was around 5 foot (maybe a bit more but probably less) so that was my height when i stopped running i have 1 problem, my body feels like it can obtain and reach higher speeds but my muscles are just saying stop, i still need to level up so yeah that's about all i wanted to say, if you need and or want more info i can give you any my elite friend hope to speak and hear from you soon 👋 i await ur response

He isn’t pushing to conserve energy as he doesn’t want to tire before the finish

Nope his posture and rythm is broken on that home straight - quite standard, same as most 400m athletes do it; it doesn't mean he couldn't go faster - 400m is very tricky to run, even if you don't go all out, finish straight is very punishing. It's either psichological thing or due to lactic acid buildup or both. You have to train as 400m/800m athlete to be able to push till the finish line on 400m and not break the technique.

@@ZDR-BoyZ erm, I said back straight, not home straight. As in 100m to 200m back straight. He looks very relaxed on the back straight.

@@Thegardener87 oh, sorry , my mistake, somehow got in my mind that you meant home straight there.

@@ZDR-BoyZ I know what a 400m home straight feels like, no one looks relaxed there 😂

And the training is much harder imo.

Usain Bolt said he stopped focussing on the 400m because the training was too hard.

@@Ximme typical of the GOAT. lol

@Dakari Hill give us an example

With that length of stride I'm sure he'd have broken world records in 400m.... mi thinks !!

He had stopped training for the 400 long before then. So no need to have gone back

😂 don't be naive , there ain't no way he could have done that in a million years....

@@patsondallars502 crazy. The man could have. He has everything he needed to. What would stop him ?

Well, why give up on being the fastest on the planet to being the fastest at 400m? Besides, he trained for years for the 100m and his body became built for that - bigger, stronger, faster so it's not as simple as just changing distances at the drop of a hat.

@@dowlabombzofficial7556 Only blacks like him. He run like any other blakc men. He doesn't make a treatment for a cancer.

⚡ bolt 41. 8 / 400m.......

nah, no chance in my opinion. not enough special 400m endurance. He was the fastest man ever, but I think he couldn't have possibly kept up the pace for a time below 43s

@@HeXD071b On that 19.19 day, I think he could’ve went 42.9 if it was his only event that day

@@MistuhRay sadly we can only speculate

I think he knows exactly what time he can do. If he doesn't do the 400m, this is because he isn't the best in this distance at the moment.

....they have to choose,, athletes can't be top in both 100 & 400 . The endurance training slows those fast twitch muscles . They can be good performers in both but not the very best in both .

Not only once in a generation, we won’t see any one like him for many many years. Maybe Boling but who knows

He is the Lance Armstrong of track&field

Yeah I’m thinking we could have seen 42.75

In my opinion he would've probably gone sub-42 given his God like talent!

400 is more or less torture

@@valiu6235 It's my favourite race (to watch and to run). It would have been great to see him run it.

@@Palahume lol same

He could probably break the 400m record right now lol

Exactly my thoughts.

facts

I mean I don’t think anyone would argue that he is the best female sprinter so I think the title is correct

Alyson Felix has a higher medal count than Bolt, so technically she was a greater sprinter than Bolt if you go by the metric of achievements on the world championship and Olympic stage. He specified because some people might criticize him saying greatest of all time without taking the time to acknowledge Felix's accomplishments.

Andrew Ryan no one gives a fuck about medals the whole sport is based on speed🤨

@@Omar-fu5qd too much fax

I agree with them!! To me it was the hardest race I ever competed in. I hated the 400m I only ran it to get speed training in for my favorite race the 800. And every other track athlete that I knew and competed against said it was the hardest race ever and they all hated it to. Anyone that runs the 400 has all my respect. Semper Fi.

The only thing harder than the 400m was the 400m hurdles. Ran it in college...and every track athlete I’ve ever talked to knows...you have to have a screw lose to run that event.

I wholeheartedly agree! The 400 meter sprint ( HELL, " RUN" ACTUALLY) IS THE " MONSTER " IN TRACK FOR IF DOES TEST ONE'S SPIRIT OF RESOLUTION TO " FINISH THE RACE." AND ONE HAS TO ' LEARN' HOW TO NEGOTIATE THIS EVENT. 🤔😏 ONE CAN ARGUE THAT THE 400M HURDLES IS "THE BEAST";however, IT IS CONTINUALLY CONTROLLED PACING ( and it has to be),WHILE THE 400M IS FLAT-OUT RUNNING .

At local events you can 400 like 800 and win the race

All his training partners were drug cheats

@@bakingwithloren6991 were talking about bolt not his friends, idiot.

HE'S THE FASTEST NOT THE GREATEST!! THE GREATEST WIN AT MANY DIFFERENT EVENTS. MANY DIFFERENT DISTANCES TOO. BOLT NEVER LEFT HIS COMFORT ZONE. HE' WAS AFRAID OF LOSING.

@@bakingwithloren6991 1

The fastest 10 men of all time were all on drugs bar 1...bolt He beat them all, he was clean they wasnt.. Although all his trainers partners were drug cheats. Seems unlikely to me

I wonder what he could’ve done in the LJ? On paper he could’ve been the best , right? With his height and unparalleled speed he might very well have broken the 30’ barrier.

long jump, 400m, 800. He can has WR

it is simply what we do in the world of corona

@@Joeysub4 lmao true😂

I believe Usian Bolt could easily run 42.5 in the 400 metres. I use to run 400 metres myself and I see he has the knowledge to combine speed with endurance, knowing how to run the second half of a 400 metre race.

You can't run a 20 flat 200 on your first half. Even if Bolt looked capable of going faster, to even run an extra 200 after going out in 20.00 is a beamonesque feat.

@@philomenaakpanaadie2015 W.V.N. did a 20.5 22.5 I think bolt could have done the same but a little faster on the 1st 200

True and in my opionion a WR

@@hoos182 i don't understand why he doesn't even try. probably form him the triple olympic gold in the 100/200 was more satisfaction. or he has some bad memories from his young training years.

You nailed it yourself. He had enough time to break the 400 and he did not/could not do it.

After 2009 already when he broke his own WR for the 100m and 200m he could have switched to the 400m. If focused from end of 2009 till 2012 on the 400m he probably could have set

At that time he was still aiming to break his 100m & 200m WRs. He stated several times that he wanted to run below 9.5 and 19.00 in the 100m & 200m races respectively. To improve on his already seemingly unbeatable world records, it's unquestionable that he'd have to focus on those events exclusively, especially as he aged. It's not as though he knew he'd never break his WRs in competition again (although he & Jamaica did break the 4x100m record again). If he somehow did know that, maybe he would've switched events then, but he didn't. So, he didn't. Even if he did, the 400m success we're imagining for was far from guaranteed. Also, there's an argument about what would've been more legendary: Winning the Triple-Triple (3 gold medals in 3 different Olympics), or having the Triple Crown in sprinting WRs (100m, 200m, 400m). The dominance over time that the Triple-Triple showcases is unprecedented. However, on the other hand, the Triple Crown would've cemented him not only as the greatest sprinter to have ever lived, but (most likely) the greatest sprinter that will ever live. Many already argue that he is that, but it'd be more concrete in that scenario. Either way, he's a legend, but which is greater? I'm favoring the Triple Crown but I couldn't know unless I experienced it.

Idk, that disqualification doesn't make sense. The athlete used a drug that was legal at the time, and made illegal after he ran the race. The logic is flawed

@@brendanburgess8741 it's a related stimulant. WADA code has always had "related compounds" in the language of the banned list

No difference between him and Lance 👀💉

I noticed that too. Personally I prefer to focus on individual achievements when discussing individual athletes, so I'd say he won 6 individual Olympic Golds.

Remember any medication u take it's drugs, it wasn't any form of drugs to let Carter run fast .they have to remember they are human being too.even if u take a advil & they test u .its drugs for them .he is too great so they try to take away one of his medal..carl Lewis run with drugs & got all those medals & didn't got strip...they wish whn they test bolt he was dope..

I fully agree with you Sam. He was happy and content with the win and not setting records. He didn’t have the “take no prisoners, shoot the wounded” attitude 01/15/2021

Yeah I'm sure he half-assed it. I mean he was jogging a 9,5s 100m, he wasn't even trying! He was training like what? 4 times a week? If he tried he could've ran sub 9s.

No, no reason to think he could, maybe if a championship race was run with a strong following wind or at altitude. He set TWO world records in TWO events (and I'm trying to think who besides Gebrselassie has) yet somebody is always thinking he could have done more, could have run faster, should have tried the 400 or long jump... I have been following track since the late '60s and i have never seen a cult of personality around an athlete like this one.

@@outlaw2191 Well, I think he was still interested in setting records, just not in the hard work required for it. :p

@@wss33 too big an "if"

Better I think, he has more of a lean than MJ

Bolt himself has said that he was mimicking him when he was younger

@@xristosportokalis6157 That’s really interesting, thanks. I’m just a casual fan and spotted it straight away! He did a good job if he was trying to mimic him. 😊

That huge stride in the 400m clips reminds me of Edwin Moses in the 400IH. EM only needed to take 13 strides between hurdles while everyone else did 15 strides.

I was able to get under that time but it was only 200 meters!

lzr

Doesn't work like that!

@@veridicusmaximus6010 explain please

@@Heat_ts7 Because you can't just linearly extrapolate speed into endurance. 300m is about the max for sprinters before other physiological aspect of the body take over. The fact that he was grimacing at 300m means he would have died a horrible death before finishing the last 100 in a 400m race at that pace. And just because you slow the pace of your sprint, say by .50, does not mean that your endurance improves necessarily when you hit that 301m mark and need to go for another 100m. Bolt's physical maturity at 16 was way ahead of others his age and that is why he was such a beast so young. He hardly grew any more after that and only gained muscle because he started to concentrate on the 100/200. If you look at many greats in the 400m when they have run awesome times many of them never grimaced after passing 400 meters which shows their great speed endurance. Bolt was miles from this type of endurance and frankly I doubt he would have ever got to run low 43s. A good example can be seen with Jeremy Wariner's 43.50 run in Stockholm. Look at the fact that he was not breathing that hard after this run and looked like he could have gone another 100m - Bolt looking worse at 300m shows me he was way behind in what it takes to maintain speed in that crucial 100m. Unless you have some serious genetics for lactate metabolism at this pace I don't care if you ran the 100m in 9 flat it does not translate to anything endurance wise.

@@veridicusmaximus6010 you have to take into account considering a 400 runner going 44s and 43s is years in the making as well on strategizing their race in practice such as knowing how fast to hit their marks during those runs. The pacing, relaxing and having enough to floor every bit they have down the final stretch. Bolt definitely didn’t train for it (400m) after 2007 most likely. The closest we have of someone who was ideally like that was Michael Johnson, considering the speed he possessed which was why he was able to run consistent 43s, but put someone who can go beyond those 200m times like Bolt who (if he did) specialized in the 400 instead (not taking away his 9.58 either) and we could see sub 43 because of how much strides he can cover. It’s really years in the making combining with those genetics and hard work putting into it. But I guess we’ll never know 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@Heat_ts7 No doubt he would have been a sub 44 guy if trained but beyond that I have my doubts. Just because he was the fastest 100/200 guy I don't see that factoring in much beyond a sub 44. There are always trade offs with speed/endurance/stride length/etc. A lot people just assume fastest at 100/200 means that if they just trained then they would be the fastest at 400 too. But we could say the same about the 800. The same people say that about 400m runners being the best at 800 if they just trained for it. But as history shows it does not work like that. That said Bolt would have been a definite contender and medalist as well - I'm sure. But that is far from this videos claims about a sub-43 based off of his 100/200/300 times. Most of the 100/200 specialist have the basic speed to run sub-44 but that is not the problem it is their ability to maintain speed (which is a genetic metabolism issue) in that last 100m. And training is not always the answer - it's physiological - and it is physiological trade offs. There is a balance and personally WVN has the sweet spot not Bolt IMHO!

100m is more lucrative...

How would he have been better at the 400 when he has almost unbreakable records in the 100 and 200?

Noo that's offensive!! - female rights activist

Ikr and persons who used steroids still didn't beat him 😂or his world record

He was on the juice for sure.

@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 the same juice your mother is on

@@burrusaga watch your mouth

@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 I have watched running for decades. I picked Ben Johnson when he was about to start at Seoul, also Carl Lewis and Linford Christie who were 2nd and 3rd in that race. All were found to be on steroids in that race. Lewis hid it the longest. You only have to look at their necks and it is easy to see. Bolt is one of only a handle of runners I have seen that am 100% confident is clean.

Fr he would just start jogging once he got ahead

I actually know none other runner that is as tall as Bolt, so imo it isn't easy to say if his height would have had an impact on the 400m. But yes Bolt is insane that guy was just flyin :) Btw tf is wrong with that dude's growth, I mean at 15 he was 6'5 already I am aswell 15 and just 5'10..

@@robinbauer1975 his height was thought to be a hinderance, but he overcame it with his supreme talent.

@@robinbauer1975 steven gardiner is the same height as bolt

way too speculative. the difference between 45s and 44s is huge, and even bigger the jump to 43s.lyles IMO a better choice for the 400 with even better speed endurance already

@@ericdawson845 You make a good point but remember that bold was a teen when he ran those times. If he could make the jump from 45 to 44 as a teen then I think he could probably go sub 44. He also has good speed endurance from his 300m best

@Jackson Five Bolt has said in several interviews that Blake works harder, I'm not saying he himself doesn't have drive, but the man was eating chicken nuggets the night before he ran at the Olympics

@@LaneyStudios5 was the morning of the race, he woke up, had his nuggets, chilled out, had a nap, more nuggets then ran

Your name?

@@lucidsolstice1452 trevo

What is ur time for 100m sprinting.Age is also a factor

All the best! 🇯🇲

It s too late man. He retired some years ago. Maybe now he's also too old

@@solwesfe9352 big big robbery my friend

He still earned 9 either way it go

I agree, especially on this one. It's pure speculation

I'm okay with the title, but the thumbnail is absolutely the worst kind of click bait. You're right, though, the content is so good we can overlook that :)

and the more lucrative option as well

Yeah 400 m make produce more lactic acid

The options with more medal opportunities and more prestige as well.