From last place off the start blocks to the World record!! Carl Lewis is so incredibly fast once he gets into his groove. One of the best athletes EVER on planet Earth!
Así es, Carl Lewis tenía el correr más elegante y una plasticidad increíble, su estética en la zancada, en el braco, joder si parecía que flotaba en la pista. Tuve el gran honor de verle correr en el mitin de Atletismo de Vallehermoso (Madrid) June 1987, el mismo día que Danny Harris ganó al gran Edwin Moses (después de 10 años invicto).
@@TH-cx2yx Yeah. Gatlin was dominating all year with very consistent 9.7 while Usain Bolt was struggling a lot and would get 10 seconds. 9.79 and 9.80 into a 0.5 headwind.
@@Sebastian-ol9uc 👍🏾 I misremembered this, I always thought that all 8 men were under 10 secs, but it was 6 of them as you have rightly pointed out. It was a big deal back in the early 90s to run in 10 seconds and Ben Johnson aside, unheard of to run under 9.9.
Indeed. That was a terrible commentary by David Coleman, possibly a low point in his career. Thankfully Steve Cram (1500m world champ and former world record holder) came along not long after to boss athletics commentary.
Bruce McAvaney from Australia called this and it was probably one of the greatest calls ever…Trying to find that call it was amazing…And he spotted Lewis coming at the perfect moment
@@rich8381- What is the title of the video? "WR" (World Record), and the commentator also says it. Ben Johnson's 9.88 was taken off the books. This is the 9.86.
@J R ya you're right, I assumed his PB was in this race, it was actually in 91 after he grew a bunch from taking growth hormone which wasn't detectable until 94ish. He ran a 9.92 in Seoul
@@rich8381 - Someone is still a little confused. At the time of this race, Leroy Burrell held the world record at 9.90 seconds. Johnson's times had been erased. Lewis set the new world record with 9.86. Burrell then broke that with a 9.85 in 1994.
I was in Westminster Hospital, 1991, Lewis winning this race plus losing in the long jump in the greatest field contest of all time with Powell was awesome viewing...
I remember the U.S. trials leading to the Championship, where Lewis was arguably even more impressive than here. In the Trials finals, Burrell had an EXPLOSIVE start, while Lewis, on the other hand, sat in the blocks. Lewis was absolutely left behind at the start even more so than here, while Burrell crushed the field out of the blocks. Lewis put on a display of speed that was, at that time, unparalleled in the history of sprints. He walked that entire field, except Burrell, like they were little boys. He was closing on Burrell FURIOUSLY, but ran out of track for a time of 9.90. Lewis and Burrell had the same coach, and the coach conceded that while Burrell set the WR, Lewis had the more impressive performance. Here's a link to that race, which if you note THAT field, was the second greatest field ever assembled, by the end of 1991. ruclips.net/video/fYv38-a1CN0/видео.html
This makes so much my physical education teacher I learn from teaches a strategy Carl Lewis used which is called wind and whip, which is used to reach tremendous speeds and if you practice wind and whip technique it gives you efficiency and power to move as fast and explosive with easy and fluidity watch this video ruclips.net/video/R0UUh9_Hxq8/видео.html thanks for sharing your comment I can 9bly imagine what Carl Lewis coach got to witness
@@beneva5674 of course he was he's the villain of the 100m he should've been disqualified of Seoul '88 not only for dopping but for stepping up on Lindford Christie lane!!!!!!!
@@generalbrowser680 he juiced back then and still got his ass whooped by Ben Johnson. He would be destroyed in today’s generation with that terrible start of his 🤷♀️
Tall guys like Lewis cannot physically have the best starts because of their longer legs. As long as they are in touch at 30m, once they unfurl themselves properly, they always reel in the shorter and faster starting guys.
I recommend the book Inside track, biography of Carl Lewis. What I have concluded by reading it is that Carl Lewis was a great personality and the one who actually started first to speak openly in public about missusing of streoids in athletics by many champions. Then some of them were caught and banned. One can also see how people who are using streoids look like gorilas with big muscles. Carl Lewis had a body as a stronger teenager. But his mother and father were sprinters and athletic coaches. So he got great talent and had great genetics for a sprinter. He was a very pious and spiritual person and with much more humility then many modern sprinters who were often shouting in front of cameras after the victory "I am the best".... His running style is one of the most elegant ever seen in track and field history
Agreed, this is my wife's login but i couldn't not comment. That was shocking from Coleman, although i do love his 1992 and 1993 commentary of Linford's wins. Interesting how good Cram has become as a commentator, his commentary for Mo last year gives me goose bumps! :)
@@justineebourgeois3420 Maybe they weren't juiced? Remember, that was in the post Ben Johnson Seoul '88 era and PEDs were the hot topic. Athletes of the period were being ultra careful, possibly?
I found out from watching a recent Carl Lewis video, that Denis knew he'd false started and that's why he kind of hesitated a little pondering whether he'd got away with it or not, haha.
Carl Lewis was 30 at the time. Far from his youth. He wasn't even a 100m specialist. He did long jump also and 200m. Probably the best sprinter of our time. I reckon he'd have beaten Bolt
Terrible call on this race, however gilded the history of the announcer may be. Tom Hammond's call of this race on NBC is far superior. Hammond nailed the call of this race, one of the greatest ever in the 100m.
@@David_7171Exactly that. Lewis ran 9.80 in the heats and it counted as a championship record even though it was heavily wind-aided (+4.3). That race is here: ruclips.net/video/WvspDqy4U98/видео.htmlsi=3vERK9OEwYOFfmsp Later on, they decided it didn’t make much sense for wind-aided times to count as championship records as it was just confusing (particularly when it was faster than the actual WR!) and arbitrary so they scrapped it, thankfully.
Yes but that was a mistake by the japanese.because even for a CR you still need to be under the legal 2m/s wind. Nevertheless his 9'80 in the quarterfinals was impressive as he eased before the tape.
Great race. But awful commentary from David Coleman. If it was up to me I would have sacked him just on that commentary alone. AWFUL. Calling the Burrell the winner ? And David Coleman has history with mumbling his words with many athletics races. I don't even think it was that harder of a race commentate on as you could see Lewis was mowing them down from 60m onwards
He never set an outdoor record. he raised his hands in Indianapolis during a possible 200 m record and lost out. I stand corrected, when he lost to, Ben Johnson in Tokyo, his time was considered the world's record because of Johnson's disqualification PEDs.
Lewis started slowing down intentionally at the US championships in 1983 over the 200 metres with about 25 m to go when he saw that he'd won, including over the long jump rival Larry Myricks - but this run the 9.86, was a world record!
Ca veut dir que vous etiez peu nombreux a pouvoir apprendre une activité comme l'athlétisme. Parce que vous n'avez su vous remettre en cause dans votre départ de guerre qui a trahi votre planète, votre famille et qui n'a reçu aucun soutient longistique et ca ne vous a pas empêcher de continuer. Vous vous êtes chercher des justifications notamment dans la mort de votre mère alors que c'est votre oncle qui a zcceler la mort de votre mère et c'est pas une de vos sœur et de vos frères qui a prit le leadership pour diriger la guerre vous êtes rester des traitre sans revenir jamais un soutien pour vous en sortir ou gagner la guerre
Carl Lewis was 30 at the time. Far from his youth. He wasn't even a 100m specialist. He did long jump also and 200m. Probably the best sprinter of our time. I reckon he'd have beaten Bolt
From last place off the start blocks to the World record!! Carl Lewis is so incredibly fast once he gets into his groove. One of the best athletes EVER on planet Earth!
Imagine a fast start he would have done 9.70 in this race
But still an ASS
He was a drugs cheat
the most elegantly moving athlete of all time. it is an aesthetic experience to watch him.
Powell
Así es, Carl Lewis tenía el correr más elegante y una plasticidad increíble, su estética en la zancada, en el braco, joder si parecía que flotaba en la pista.
Tuve el gran honor de verle correr en el mitin de Atletismo de Vallehermoso (Madrid) June 1987, el mismo día que Danny Harris ganó al gran Edwin Moses (después de 10 años invicto).
Braceo
This to me was the best 100m final ever. You can't script a better final. The World Record was just a bonus.
agreed....I loved the 4x100 squad... andre cason, Leroy to Mitchell to lewis... amazing!!! fantastic four
I agree...I totally agree and Carl is Vegetarian.. incredible, incredible!
i prefer the 2015 final were bolt was a heave underdog
@@TH-cx2yx Yeah. Gatlin was dominating all year with very consistent 9.7 while Usain Bolt was struggling a lot and would get 10 seconds. 9.79 and 9.80 into a 0.5 headwind.
1988 Seoul Olympics Ben Johnson destruction of Lewis
1. Carl Lewis (USA) 9.86 WR
2. Leroy Burrell (USA) 9.88 PB
3. Dennis Mitchell (USA) 9.91 PB
4. Linford Christie (GBR) 9.92 AR
5. Frankie Fredericks (NAM) 9.95 AR
6. Raymond Stewart (JAM) 9.96 NR
7. Robson Caetano da Silva (BRA) 10.12
8. Bruny Surin (CAN) 10.14
@@Sebastian-ol9uc
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I misremembered this, I always thought that all 8 men were under 10 secs, but it was 6 of them as you have rightly pointed out.
It was a big deal back in the early 90s to run in 10 seconds and Ben Johnson aside, unheard of to run under 9.9.
How this commentator kept his job all these years is astounding.
Indeed. That was a terrible commentary by David Coleman, possibly a low point in his career. Thankfully Steve Cram (1500m world champ and former world record holder) came along not long after to boss athletics commentary.
David Coleman was an exceptional commentator , the very best .
@@Lord_Hillcrest01 the very worst, you mean. had no idea who even won the race
Bruce McAvaney from Australia called this and it was probably one of the greatest calls ever…Trying to find that call it was amazing…And he spotted Lewis coming at the perfect moment
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ruclips.net/video/03hMTVK_5Jo/видео.html
I think Carl was one of the greatest athletes of all time. He was also world and Olympic champion at long jump .
9.90 world record was broken by two guys in smae race. just incredible race. best 100m of all time
No it wasn't. Carl had the WR in 9.86 from Seoul Olympics in 88
@@rich8381- What is the title of the video? "WR" (World Record), and the commentator also says it. Ben Johnson's 9.88 was taken off the books. This is the 9.86.
@@DS-bo3dy it was a 9.79 not .88. Carl ran a 9.92 in Seoul, so the commentator messed up. The time speaks for themselves
@J R ya you're right, I assumed his PB was in this race, it was actually in 91 after he grew a bunch from taking growth hormone which wasn't detectable until 94ish. He ran a 9.92 in Seoul
@@rich8381 - Someone is still a little confused. At the time of this race, Leroy Burrell held the world record at 9.90 seconds. Johnson's times had been erased. Lewis set the new world record with 9.86. Burrell then broke that with a 9.85 in 1994.
Coleman blew this call. Clear win for Lewis.
yes, " Burrell wins it " .....Pratt
Typical Coleman!
He basically said one thing….and that was both wrong and said with his eyes closed.
Didnt even do any commentating on the race lol
I was like,huh
I was in Westminster Hospital, 1991, Lewis winning this race plus losing in the long jump in the greatest field contest of all time with Powell was awesome viewing...
yes, i got married on the very same day that Mike Powell won the long jump and Liz McColgan winning the 10000m
best 100m of all time,
beside best long jump of all time
Tokyo 1991 was crazy
Great 400m relay too with akabusi.
Didn't Carl go onto a vegan diet just before these WCs?
Was on holiday in North Wales and watched this live
Greatest 100m race of all time
Carl Lewis est une légende inoubliable. Un mec qui m'a fait rêver.
MOI aussiiiiiiiii !!
I remember the U.S. trials leading to the Championship, where Lewis was arguably even more impressive than here. In the Trials finals, Burrell had an EXPLOSIVE start, while Lewis, on the other hand, sat in the blocks. Lewis was absolutely left behind at the start even more so than here, while Burrell crushed the field out of the blocks. Lewis put on a display of speed that was, at that time, unparalleled in the history of sprints. He walked that entire field, except Burrell, like they were little boys. He was closing on Burrell FURIOUSLY, but ran out of track for a time of 9.90. Lewis and Burrell had the same coach, and the coach conceded that while Burrell set the WR, Lewis had the more impressive performance. Here's a link to that race, which if you note THAT field, was the second greatest field ever assembled, by the end of 1991. ruclips.net/video/fYv38-a1CN0/видео.html
This makes so much my physical education teacher I learn from teaches a strategy Carl Lewis used which is called wind and whip, which is used to reach tremendous speeds and if you practice wind and whip technique it gives you efficiency and power to move as fast and explosive with easy and fluidity watch this video ruclips.net/video/R0UUh9_Hxq8/видео.html thanks for sharing your comment I can 9bly imagine what Carl Lewis coach got to witness
Do you think Lewis was doping? How else do you explain such improvements at the end of his career?
@@beneva5674 of course he was he's the villain of the 100m he should've been disqualified of Seoul '88 not only for dopping but for stepping up on Lindford Christie lane!!!!!!!
Still remember this final!Superb Lewis!
The most stacked 100m ever.
A who’s who of 100m legends
LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS
Stacked with juice 😂
@@deanhowell5936FACTS
I would've loved to see Carl Lewis train with today's advancements of strength/conditioning and recovery.
you mean juice 2020 technology?
The tracks are faster now as well
@@generalbrowser680 he juiced back then and still got his ass whooped by Ben Johnson. He would be destroyed in today’s generation with that terrible start of his 🤷♀️
Coleman should have retired at this point - way past his prime here.
everything gives to GOD , the champion... Carl Lewis
David Coleman......simply the best......
?? - got the winner wrong.
if only he had good starts
@neogeomaster 🤨
If Carl have good start he run in this race under 9.6.he was in his top.no body have the speed like Carl.
@@user-dn9xp3zm6g .Usain Bolt with good start could have done under 9.5 easily
@@andreazonin usain WHO ?.....let him first jump 8 meters and 91 like carl did and then compare him TO THE TRUE LEGEND.
Tall guys like Lewis cannot physically have the best starts because of their longer legs.
As long as they are in touch at 30m, once they unfurl themselves properly, they always reel in the shorter and faster starting guys.
I recommend the book Inside track, biography of Carl Lewis. What I have concluded by reading it is that Carl Lewis was a great personality and the one who actually started first to speak openly in public about missusing of streoids in athletics by many champions. Then some of them were caught and banned. One can also see how people who are using streoids look like gorilas with big muscles. Carl Lewis had a body as a stronger teenager. But his mother and father were sprinters and athletic coaches. So he got great talent and had great genetics for a sprinter. He was a very pious and spiritual person and with much more humility then many modern sprinters who were often shouting in front of cameras after the victory "I am the best"....
His running style is one of the most elegant ever seen in track and field history
Does Carl mention he was also taking PED's in his biography and conveniently protected by US T&F?
Shocking commentary from David Coleman.
He was capable of fine words. But this was a complete hash
Commentator got the wrong winner.. saying it burrell
Tokio was crazy dope!
Lewis ran 9.80 in a qualifying round but it had a wind assistance of 4.3,so wasn't ratified as a WR,but still stood as a best time.Think that's it?!!
Thanks for the clarification
Thanks, I was wondering what CR was all about and why it was lower than WR.
Carl went below 9.80.
Legend of the 100 metre sprint ..
disagree - his commentary on michael johnson's atlanta world record was great
What!?he did GREAT❤
Capacitor the Running Power
Agreed, this is my wife's login but i couldn't not comment. That was shocking from Coleman, although i do love his 1992 and 1993 commentary of Linford's wins. Interesting how good Cram has become as a commentator, his commentary for Mo last year gives me goose bumps! :)
this is why they never show this clip on the tv anymore. a real Coleman balls up
By now malaysia also have azeem fahmi best record 10.09..and he is very young 18 years old now..
David Coleman is the best ever
Best lineup in a mens 100m final ever.
Not even close. Very slow winning time 🤷♀️
@@justineebourgeois3420
The world record was broken.
All guys under 10 secs which was revolutionary back in the early 90s.
@@wainerollins2587 all juiced up too and couldn’t crack 9.86 🤦♀️
@@justineebourgeois3420
Maybe they weren't juiced?
Remember, that was in the post Ben Johnson Seoul '88 era and PEDs were the hot topic.
Athletes of the period were being ultra careful, possibly?
how this guy did it;o. so far behind at start;o went out of block like he was napping and won with wr....
I found out from watching a recent Carl Lewis video, that Denis knew he'd false started and that's why he kind of hesitated a little pondering whether he'd got away with it or not, haha.
Carl Lewis was 30 at the time. Far from his youth.
He wasn't even a 100m specialist. He did long jump also and 200m. Probably the best sprinter of our time. I reckon he'd have beaten Bolt
I want to see more sprinters do the long jump
Juiced to the Max!
That would have to be his greatest race.....when you think maybe he's not at that level anymore...he showed he was.
Lewis on juice running faster three years after 1988 from age 27 to 31? His body changed since 1988.
no drugs like today’s records
Lewis Burrell Mitchell
Reacción
10m. 0.140 0.120 0.090
Terrible call on this race, however gilded the history of the announcer may be. Tom Hammond's call of this race on NBC is far superior. Hammond nailed the call of this race, one of the greatest ever in the 100m.
hernia estubo parejo el cierre de la carrera
Terrible commentary saying Burrell won. Close race but clear to see Lewis won.
Coleman - you know what it's like; all those black guys look the same.
Who is the commentator?
announcer needs to get some glasses
Lewis wins! Commentary was wrong. Oh my Lord! 9.86 ..Personal best marks
100 m: 9.86 s (August 1991, Tokyo)
He NEVER had good starts but was great.
I run fast with but im not sure how fast exactly. I have very large footstep
"Burrell wins it", as Lewis storms through as clear winner. LOL
Best 100m ever.
Worst commentary ever.
One of the most famous races in history with one of the worse race calls ever.
Ideed, he was quite good usually but he seemed a bit lost here
Commentator needs new glasses. It was vintage Carl Lewis.
London 2012
Boy that announcer was in denial wasn't he he did not want to admit he was wrong
I didn't even know Lewis had been World recoder. I knew for Thierry Vigneron, but not for Carl Lewis.
i think the race caller was fired after this race.
How can the WR be 9.90 and the CR 9.80?
Carl Lewis il figlio del vento😎
Best ever race..............Lewis is god!!!!!
N 1 ... King Carl
Coleman never even mentioned Carl Lewis. Rotten commentary
I wonder why Dennis Mitchell raised his hands at the finish. Did he think he had won?
No, It was a USA 1,2,3 sweep; He was happy to get 3rd.
Good night global
GSC Tecnologia global
How is the CR 9.80 when the WR is only 9.90..?
Wind assisted timings don't count in records, but they do in medals
Was he CLEAN then?
but he was taking enhancing substances so don't forget that
Sera q o Sam gredy terminou em segundo???
35.god
Why CR was 9.8 then?
Carl Lewis ran that in the heats with an illegal following wind. Maybe back then such times could still stand as championship records but WR’s ??
@@David_7171Exactly that. Lewis ran 9.80 in the heats and it counted as a championship record even though it was heavily wind-aided (+4.3). That race is here: ruclips.net/video/WvspDqy4U98/видео.htmlsi=3vERK9OEwYOFfmsp
Later on, they decided it didn’t make much sense for wind-aided times to count as championship records as it was just confusing (particularly when it was faster than the actual WR!) and arbitrary so they scrapped it, thankfully.
Yes but that was a mistake by the japanese.because even for a CR you still need to be under the legal 2m/s wind. Nevertheless his 9'80 in the quarterfinals was impressive as he eased before the tape.
If Carl Lewis would have started better he could probably have broken the 9,70 or less…
Great run with poor start
Bad call. Yikes!
Here in US, it was obvious you won.
Didnt look 9.79 to me.
Doping
Sprint has always been about whos best hiding the roids. No difference now and then.
Usain Bolt Will Beat This Guy
Well obviously. Usain bolt is a faster runner but they would never race together
you must be stupid to say that
Usain bolt also had the availability of better training methods, nutritionists etc.
,,,wake up dude,,,they are not from the same generation,,nothing to compare
Marc Docor this was over 20 years ago dumbass. Stop comparing runners today to runners back then
The doping king
God damn, Lewis always had a poor start.
False, Lewis had a perfect start running his fastest splits ever, including when passing the 30 m and 60 m marks!
Carl Lewis was great……if it wasn’t for Ben “monkey juice” Johnson….it seems like Lewis never lost…..great great athlete. Think under appreciated
Great race. But awful commentary from David Coleman. If it was up to me I would have sacked him just on that commentary alone. AWFUL. Calling the Burrell the winner ? And David Coleman has history with mumbling his words with many athletics races. I don't even think it was that harder of a race commentate on as you could see Lewis was mowing them down from 60m onwards
Bad call Lewis won. Have to eyes on Lewis closing and see he won . Terrible
Carl lewis always does this, bursting all his speed after few meters above 40 meters. He's really terrible at starts.
Too fast carl, too fast
起跑这么差都追得上来 太强了
He never set an outdoor record. he raised his hands in Indianapolis during a possible 200 m record and lost out. I stand corrected, when he lost to, Ben Johnson in Tokyo, his time was considered the world's record because of Johnson's disqualification PEDs.
Lewis started slowing down intentionally at the US championships in 1983 over the 200 metres with about 25 m to go when he saw that he'd won, including over the long jump rival Larry Myricks - but this run the 9.86, was a world record!
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Ca veut dir que vous etiez peu nombreux a pouvoir apprendre une activité comme l'athlétisme. Parce que vous n'avez su vous remettre en cause dans votre départ de guerre qui a trahi votre planète, votre famille et qui n'a reçu aucun soutient longistique et ca ne vous a pas empêcher de continuer. Vous vous êtes chercher des justifications notamment dans la mort de votre mère alors que c'est votre oncle qui a zcceler la mort de votre mère et c'est pas une de vos sœur et de vos frères qui a prit le leadership pour diriger la guerre vous êtes rester des traitre sans revenir jamais un soutien pour vous en sortir ou gagner la guerre
Worst call ever
cheeeeeaatteeeeerrrr
Why CR is better than WR???
Coleman was a good commentator but what was he looking at there you could see Lewis closing and you could see he was pretty much a clear winner
ㅓ ㅜ ㅑ What a talnet!
Ben Johnson cheated with roids.
Ben Johnson wasn't in this race.
Lewis drug cheat
Is the caller blind
Carl Lewis was 30 at the time. Far from his youth.
He wasn't even a 100m specialist. He did long jump also and 200m. Probably the best sprinter of our time. I reckon he'd have beaten Bolt
How can the WR be 9.90 and the CR 9.80?
Lewis ran that time in the quarterfinals with a +4.3w. But back then illegal times could stand as championship times.
@@David_7171 That explains it. Thank you