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Bolt ‘not worried’ today’s stars will break records
TOKYO — In the 16 years since Usain Bolt posted his world records in the 100 and 200 meters, nobody has really come close to toppling them.
One of track’s all-time greats and maybe still its most-recognizable star said he looks at today’s top sprinters and doesn’t expect that to change anytime soon.
“No, I’m not worried,” Bolt said at a Puma event Thursday, two days before the start of world championships. “I think the talent is there, there will be talented athletes coming up, and they will do well. But at this present moment, I don’t see any athlete able to break the record, so not worried.”
Bolt set both records — 9.58 in the 100 and 19.19 in the 200 — at worlds in Berlin in 2009.
Since then, only one other runner, Yohan Blake, has cracked 9.7 in the 100, and only Blake has run faster than 19.3 in the 200.
American Noah Lyles is the only sprinter to be outspoken about putting Bolt’s marks in his sites. Lyles caused a stir in 2023 when he said he was thinking about times of 9.65 and 19.10, saying, “I have a good reason to believe I’m going to do something I’ve never done before.”
Lyles pulled off a Bolt-like feat by winning both sprints at worlds that year, but he has yet to surpass the 19.31 he ran at the 2022 worlds to break Michael Johnson’s long-held American record.
This year’s fastest 100 meters was posted by another Jamaican, Kishane Thompson, whose 9.75 makes him a favorite heading into Sunday’s final expected to include Lyles, American Kenny Bednarek and another Jamaican, Oblique Seville.
Bolt predicted a 1-2 Jamaican finish, with Thompson and Seville at the top of the podium.
“It’s all about if they can execute — not listen to the noise and go execute,” Bolt said.
With his upright stride and 6-foot frame, Australia’s 17-year-old Gout Gout has drawn comparisons to Bolt, in part because Gout is slightly ahead of where Bolt was, time-wise, when he was 17.
Could Gout be the man to break one of Bolt’s records?
“It’s always easy when you’re younger,” Bolt said. “The transition to seniors from juniors is always tougher. It’s all about getting the right coach, getting the right people around you.”
Bolt said improvements in track surfaces and shoes — Puma, for instance, released results of a study that concluded he would’ve run 9.42 in Berlin wearing today’s shoes — make it inevitable his records will fall someday. Just not now.
“Everything evolves in life, people trying to get better, trying to get faster,” he said. “It’s not going to be a surprise if it actually happens.”
Monaco have dropped Paul Pogba from their Champions League squad for the knockout stages in order to make room for their January new signings, sources have told ESPN.
Pogba, who will turn 33 next month, has not played since the start of December and has only featured three times this season for the club — a pair of five minute cameos against Rennes and PSG in November and again off the bench against Brest.
The France international joined Monaco in June after an 18-month doping ban and initially struggled for fitness, before minor thigh problems and an ankle injury further ruled him out.
He now is recovering from a calf injury he picked up in early December — which he is due back from in the next few days.
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LUBBOCK, Texas — Darryn Peterson was happy to finally finish a game for No. 11 Kansas, and the Jayhawks certainly needed the standout freshman at the end against No. 13 Texas Tech.
“This is the first game I got through to the end,” Peterson said. “I’ve been trying to all year, so to finally be able to do it, it’s a blessing.”
Peterson scored 19 points while playing a season-high 35 minutes, but his only two field goals in the second half were late 3-pointers. He made the tying basket on a contested shot from the right corner with 1:20 left, and hit again from the left wing with 44 seconds left in a 64-61 victory Monday night.
Two days earlier, Peterson scored 18 points in the first half but didn’t play the final 16:46 of a win over then-No. 13 BYU because of cramping. He is averaging 21.1 points.
An expected top pick in the NBA draft in June, Peterson had sat out a win over Kansas State the previous game because of an ankle injury. The 6-foot-5 guard has also dealt with hamstring and calf issues this season while sitting out 10 games overall for Kansas (17-5, 7-2 Big 12).
Before hitting the late 3s, Peterson was only 3-of-12 shooting against the Red Raiders (16-6, 6-3).
“He’s got something that I guess you’re born with and can’t teach. He’s got just an unbelievable ability to raise his level when it counts the most,” Jayhawks coach Bill Self said. “That’s what he did tonight. I mean, those two plays he made were obviously the two biggest plays of the game for us.”
The tying shot, after a Tech turnover, was made over preseason AP All-America forward JT Toppin, who then had his shot blocked at the other end by Flory Bidunga before missing on a second chance. Peterson then made what proved to be the winner.
“Two crucial 3s … that was crazy,” Bidunga said.
“Coach Self told me to go make a play,” said Peterson, who was then asked where his confidence came from to finish that way. “The work I put in and then my teammates and coaches. I had a bad game … shots weren’t really going. They guarded me kind of well, but I just trusted the work, so those shots I feel like I should make.”
And he did when they counted most for the Jayhawks in their sixth consecutive victory.
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