Man… Kim Collins was the 2003 World 100m champ. The guy is a stick. He would look totally in place racing in the 1500 m or for that matter in your local olympic tri…but he looks totally out of place at the start of a 100m with all the dudes with cosmetic bulk and thick necks (OK, I guess 100m guys actually need bulk, so it is not cosmetic).
I love this CBC sports IAAF world’s coverage. July and Aug has been good…First the Tour, then the FINA WC’s from Montreal for swimming and now the IAAF worlds from Helsinki !
Just watching a replay of the men’s 100m semifinals. Leonard Scott, is just the opposite. The commentator said that he warmed the bench for the Steelers and went back to track. He has some serious bulk.
Obikwelu from Portugal is pretty darn skinny too. His style is pretty “gangly” and you should see the dude accelerate from 60-90m!
OK…Maria Mutola, running in the 800 has more cosmetic bulk than Kim Collins 
Anyone else watching this track meet ?
You can’t judge doping by body type.
sorry, I did not mean to accuse anyone of anything. All I meant to say is that Collins does not look like your prototype 100 m dude that evolved over the 80’s and 90’s. He is more of a throwback to the sleek lean sprinters from the sixties.
I was thinking of guys like Jim Hines and Bob Hayes:
9.95 Jim Hines (USA) 14 Oct 68 Mexico City
10.02 Charles Greene (USA) 13 Oct 68 Mexico City
10.03 Jim Hines (USA) 20 Jun 68 Sacramento
10.06 Robert Hayes (USA) 15 Oct 64 Tokyo
To put it in pespective, after Hines, the record was untouched for 15 years through the 70’s until Calvin Smith broke it:
9.77 Asafa Powell (JAM) 14 Jun 05 Athens
9.78 Tim Montgomery (USA) 14 Sep 02 Paris
9.79 Maurice Greene (USA) 16 Jun 99 Athens
9.84 Donovan Bailey (CAN) 27 Jul 96 Atlanta
9.85 Leroy Burrell (USA) 06 Jul 94 Lausanne
9.86 Carl Lewis (USA) 25 Aug 91 Tokyo
9.90 Leroy Burrell (USA) 14 Jun 91 New York
9.92 Carl Lewis (USA) 24 Sep 88 Seoul
9.93 Carl Lewis (USA) 17 Aug 88 Zürich
9.93 Carl Lewis (USA) 30 Aug 87 Rome
9.93 Calvin Smith (USA) 03 Jul 83 Air Force Academy
Aside from better nutrition and training techniques (first deployed by the famed Charlie Francis and his weight training intensive regimes), most of the gains in the WR can also be associated with way way way faster tracks.
ya I went to school with him at Central Arizona and it was pretty amazing watching him run. We had some sprinters that were completely jacked and they didn’t do much weight work. These guys are silly gifted so don’t assume there juicing cuz they got a 8-pack and pecs.
didn’t kim collins go to TCU?