Bromeli 9.84 reminds us why we still believe that we still believe
With all the accounts, Treywone Brommel was not supposed to be here.
Not at the top of the Diamond League Chair. Failing to pack a field with global medalists. And, of course, not 9.84 seconds for installing the fastest 100 m in the world this year. But there was there in Rome, and last Friday was headed and stopped watches.
It was a performance that makes you sit down not only because of the time, but because he passed it. The victory of Bromel was the first time in “Golden Gala” Pietro Mannea that the world was playing in four years. A lot happened then. Disruptions, surgeries, slow races, close-pensions. Less Sprinters survive the physical damage to this sport, albeit return to many injuries with their speed. Bromel tries to do it just that, at least one night, he succeeded.
There was one time when 10.87 was more likely than 9.84. That’s what he went last year. His name was slowly falling into big conversations. People spoke of Noah’s Lyles, Kishan Thompson, Mine Simbine, Fred Kerieli, Nandle Bednarek and Kenny Bednarek. Not brommel. No more.
And yet, here he is again.
The victory of Bromel Rome was unprotected. He exploded from the blocks and never gave anyone the opportunity. He left the rest of the field after only 60 meters, and the rest of the race was perfect why he was an incredibly well-running runner.
It was not just time to do. It was how clean the race was. He looked at control from the beginning to the end. His transition stages, often a problem when he was pursuing the form was smooth. His last ten meters were compiled. This was not a successful break. It was like a man who knew exactly what he was doing.
Bromeel always had talent. He exploded at the scene in 2015 as a teenager, taking the bronze in Beijing in the World Championships. Until 2016, he was an Olympic final, and one of the most promising sprays in the United States, then injured. At first Achilles, then gray, then another feedback when he thought he had returned. For a moment, he told reporters that he could not run, let him not leave.
But something moved in the past year.
Bromell returned to his college coach Michael Ford. He started working with a therapist. He leaned more in his faith, which often reiterates it in interviews. He said that he should start thinking differently, not only about his body, but about his goals.
“It is a blessing to come here and put God first,” he said after the race in Rome. “And come out there and do.”
His thinking is now different. He is still ambitious, but he doesn’t try to control the result. “I’ve always thought I was the best,” Brommel told Flotrack. “But now I realize anything that can happen on the day. So I’m just cooking as well as possible and quit the rest. “
It sounds simple, but it takes a lot for sprinter, especially someone who is injured, think so. Stop your former self ghosts and start hugging the athlete today.
Data is backed up her form. In April, in Texas, he ran at 200 m at 200 m at 2005. He then had a 9.91 telephone conversation in Clorate, Florida. Those times hinted on progress. But Rome was not everything gathered. His 9.84 was clean, legal (+1.1 m / s wind) and confident.
Now comes the real test, consistency.
US trials are only weeks away. Men 100m is cruel. Kenny Bednarek is next to Bromel, there is a Christian Coleman who begins to find a way. Noy Lail is also a world and Olympic champion. Only three make teams.
And while we even have world championships.
Still, if the brommel’s body is stored, you have to think that he got fire. This is a man who knows how to feel the rock floor. Such knowledge has its own strength. Maybe that’s why he looked so quietly after the race in Rome. He is no longer running pressure. He works with clarity. He is not left to prove. But maybe, maybe he’s not done showing us.
