Carmelita Jeter of USA celebrates winning in Greece in 10.67s PHOTO/James Davis
By Gary Smith, World-Track
MIAMI, Fla. — World 100-metres bronze medallist Carmelita Jeter will attempt to break the world record for the 60m dash during the indoor season next year, her agent told World-Track on Wednesday.
Mark Block said the American who at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, became the third fastest woman over the 100m after blasting to a jaw-dropping 10.64 seconds, the second fastest of all time and the fastest 100m performance in over a decade, is planning a full indoor season that will also include the World Indoor Championships in Doha in March.
She also clocked a flashing 10.67secs prior to her personal best.
“Carmelita is planning a full indoor season,” Block said on Wednesday. “[She] plans to make her best attempt at the World Record for 60m and trying to capture her first World title at the World Indoor Championships.”
Block added that there are no specific meetings on the radar just yet, but confirmed that there are a lot of possibilities for her to race in the United States and in Europe.
“She has not set any specific meets yet, but we are in talks with several promoters in the US and Europe,” he said.
“Her schedule will be set according to what she and her coach feel are the best meets to set her up to achieve her goals.”
In the 2009 season, Jeter improved her personal best to 7.11secs, but is clearly a hot favourite to better that performance in addition to posting a strong challenge on Russian Irina Privalova’s long-standing 6.92secs world record.
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i hope whatever she’s on wada can detect it please lord i pray
Please, people, stop being negative about athletes’ performances. Not all athlete take drugs. I believe that women stand the chance of running 10.1sec ten years from now. Only athletes who do not train hard take banned substances. If you eat balanced diet, take good vitamins and supplements, with rest of mind and good sleep, you can run faster than ever.
Good job Jeter. I wish you can also break the 100 meters world record next year. As long as you stay healthy, I believe you can achieve any goal you set for yourself next year.
Good luck Jeter.
please nekky…”fans” have been saying this since the mid 1970s. Jeter’s progression is virtually text book perfect following other proven drug cheats. she was a talent early, then drifted in and out of the top echelon of women’s sprinting, then in her later years she pops up at low profile meets and runs extraordinarily, and performs far less amazingly at big championships- or is out injured. spend alot of time on the injury list (?), and her sudden improvement is better than she’s ever experienced, and its coupled with a virtually new lean and ripped, muscular physique. its true what you say about truly gifted, dedicated athletes, but they always show this god given talent from very young, and arrive at mind blowing performances quite early in their careers- they also show very minor improvement over their entire careers..maybe 0.1 to 0.2s over a specialist event. watch bolt- he’ll be lucky to improve 0.2s better over the next decade. many only achieve 0.1s or so. 0.4 or 0.5 in the mid to late 20s is an almost sure sign that something is odd. the info supporting my comments is out there if you follow the sport for long enough and really be objective. Flo-Jo was without a doubt on drugs..some very androgenic types also.
You are nieve and ignorant when it comes to pro sports. Save your opinion from now on.
above comment directed at Necky not Tim.
Nancy, Save your prayers for something more meaningful. Rest assured that Carmelita Jeter is running solely on talent and hard work. If she’s guilty of anything, it’s being the most efficient female sprinter alive right now!
a couple of months ago Carl Lewis said he could not understand how, in just a couple of years Usain Bolt has improved so rapid, well lets see, Camelita Jeter start the 2009 season with her life time legal best of 10.94, at the end of the season [2009] her time has gorn down to 10.64, Emmmm, WHAT WERE YOU SAYING ABOUT KING USAIN? at the end of the season when athletes are trying there very best to finish the season injury free, Jeter is blazing up the track like a cheetah. well let.s not blame her, for in her comment she said, I NEVER FELT LIKE I WAS GOING THAT FAST, well that just goes to show you, she never even have control over herself.
Tony Roots- you are blissfully ignorant in your comments. i dont blame you for that. its very frustrating to read ill informed statements that are so righteous though. if you’d bother to do some homework you’d see the very different history of the two athletes- performances at big meets, and age of performances, plus their junior and youth progression. blt was always worlds best, every year he ran times that only other pros older than him dreamed of..he was predicted to go low 19s 200m and mid to low 9s in the 100m. he’ll probably be the first to go sub 43 in the 400m also, and even over 9m in the long jump. THATS an athlete. he competes regularly everywhere also. hes also still very young. you are comparing apples and oranges and saying that they are similar. go and do some homework is all i can say.
loooove Jeter!!!!!
mickey, is that a reply? come on man come better than that.
the jamaican athletes should no doubt be the most decorated and celebrated on the track, if you would just reflect back on there achievements when they were juniors. at high school championships, carifta games, the penn relays and the world youth and junior games, they have distinguished themselves with very high level of preformances over the years, clocking superior times over there rivals. but as soon as they becomes professionals and it’s time to get pay and to take home there golds, they are always ambush and robed by some very very large band of STEROID MONKEYS. but now that the IAAF is trying to catch and eradicate them, [THE STEROID MONKEYS] it as bean a little bit better, as you can see from the result of the beijing olympics and the berlin world championship. every now and again you will see one and two of them [THE STEROID MONKEYS] come out to play, but they play very careful because they are awear that… A TRAP HAS BEAN SET FOR THEM.
Fine Tony Roots, but jeter knew ultimately that she could run that fast simply because her coach(John Smith) told her that if she can execute the race that Smith has been training her to run, she would produce a 10.68. In Thessaloniki, we pretty much saw the prophecy come true. Plus, Jeter always had the elements to that race. She always had the top end speed, and she always had the start. essentially, Prior to her working with Smith, she was never able to combine those elements of her race properly. JS had the glue that mended her two strengths together.
was jeter working with John Smith before the world championship? why is after the world championship that her two strengths glued? which top class athlete would want to run that fast at the end of the season and to chance a injury when they have so many years left in there career? besides, the most significant compitisions were over, so which top class athlete would want to train so hard after that. DID YOU SEE HER MUSCLES Nathaniel?
I hope one of the last clean records in sprinting is not broken by a cheat like Jeter.
I hate to name call but their is no athlete on the circuit that has packed on lean muscle mass and trimmed fat like jeter. I’ve seen a lot of famale steroids takers in my life,mostle in body building but also in track and field. you can see this is physically a different Carmelita. from her shoulders to her back, face arms ass, legs you name it, she’s bulked up. I wanna believe that she is clean, but how many times must I see this story b4 I stop allowing myself to be fooled by it. not to mention. she turns 30 years old and all of a sudden she is shaving over 3 tenths of a second off her personal best. I hate to sound like Carl Lewis but “If anyone doesn’t question that they are an idiot”.only one other athlete ever did anything of the sort in the history of Track & Field. Flo-Jo. the same flo-jo who’s peirs kept asking why does she sound so manly all of a sudden. we all know where she got her magic potion from.
you are absolutely correct. add the timelines and you’ve got a prime candidate for suspicion.
I’M VERY HAPPY FOR JETER!!!!
look at her on you tube 2b honest she is a beautiful girl but she reminds me of ms whyte straight up she looks totally different my son expressed shock when he saw her he says she look like a man
I just looked at a video from 2008 and one from 2009 after Berlin and she does look much more muscular. She certainly is bulkier and less feminine.
Hope she is clean for the sake of T&F. The sport can’t take any more big name scandals.
PC those are my sentiments exactly. forget about america vs US for a minute. forget about all the rivalries within track and field. Jeter is a fine Athlete without question. I just hope she is doing it clean. There is already a lot of talk amongst other athletes about her increased muscle mass. even more so than her increased speed. I’ve heard VC make mention of it and i’ve heard Shelly -ann Fraser make mention of it. To be honest they spoke candidly about it but I’m sure there was a bit of seriousness there.
Let me start with King Carl who recently indicated that they competed under a cloud in his era – Surely you’ve got to acknowledge that his suspiscion is as a result of his past bugging him??? The athletes in our era [Fraser, SImpson, Jeter, Stewart, Felix, Campell-Brown, Richards, Bolt, Powell and Gay] have taken the sport to another level and have excited the International community again. The sceptics including some of you above have clearly ruled out the ability of the human spirit to go where no man/woman has done so in the past. Bolt for eg. had a PB of 19.76 or so in 2007 and lost to Gay. His hard work pays off and people start to doubt the 2003 World Junior Champion who some still think came out of nowhere. Its a wonder that Tom Tellez thinks that Carl Lewis could’ve run faster but he himself doubts the ability of others to do so…Jelousy makes you nasty and envy makes you……..
Let us not forget that the sport we all love so much has seen World records in each decade in the 100m in the mens event but we have failed to see the same in the women’s 100 the Flojo era. I believe that the current crop [and I'm not singling out 1 person] of sprinters have the talent and ability to break that 10.49 of Flojo given the right conditions and the correct preparation. I also think that Allyson Felix has that 200 record in her sights and she can take it down soon if she focusses solely on her 200. Let me give Carl a coaching education as well – Bolt improved on his 200m time by 0.46 in 2008 and a further 0.11 in 2009. How unrealistic is that when you consider that he had the physical disposition to improve his strength and gain 0.023 per 10m sector in 2008 and an improvement of 0.0055 in 2009…Come on people start enjoying the sport for the exciting duels we have in the womens sprints and stop doing the job of WADA for them. I look foroward to seeing womens records tumble and I look forward even more to the return of Sherone Simpson who will [when fully fit] add a great dimension to Jamaican sprinting [with respect to the fight for spaces in 100m in the Jamaican team] and the Jamaican assault on the 4x100m World record. Sherone is a great athlete and when she joins Jeter, Stewart, Fraser, Campbell Brown and company we are definitely in for an exciting era in the sprints. Jeter go get that 60m record so you can set things up for a great few years to come in sprinting
dude you cannot be a track enthusiast. you are turning a blind eye to considerable circumstantial evidence. if you loved the sport you’d be protective about what happens in it- especially the dark side of it. again you are one of these people who cannot correlate cause and effect and cite bolt as a comparison to jeter. that is simplistic at best and shows complete disregard of other comparisons over the history of the sport. one anecdote does not make a rule- its a very long- and in fact totally poor comparison. IF Bolt was 30 and he’d ran 100 and 200 all his life and this happened, then your comparsion would be valid. itd be valid also if Bolt had ben an also ran all his career. itd also be valid if he ran these times in minor meets and bombed at championships. but of course none of this has happened. the only person to resemble this progress in such similar circumstance was flo jo. she was just talented though eh?
well said track enthusiast
I began following Carmelita 3 years ago because I had never seen a female athelete run a corner with such speed. I knew then that if she could learn to run straight without pinning to the left of her lane, she could possibly beat anyone in the world. She also struggled with poor starting techniques. When she took bromze in the 2007 World Championships, she suffered from both weaknesses until 75 meters when she hit her stride and massively closed to end up in a photo finish. She has always held the talent. The change in her physique is due to her goal of becoming the perfect sprinter. Coming soon you will probably see a near perfect starting technique with a perfect transition to stride. She needs strength to do this; however she is still 22 pounds under our beloved Flojo’s weight (My long term hero who gave credit to our maker). Carmelita has always been strong. Why wouldn’t any athlete improve over time; especially when you look at the improving physiques of 80% of her competitors through technical training and nutrition. Enjoy this time of history and may she set multiple world records. This much I know. She will do it with grace..
To dmrose, let me guess, you actually think flojo was clean right?
yes stacy she was clean so clean in fact ignore the sudden increase in muscle mass. i used 2 watch ottey kick her ass and then all of a sudden out of nowhere she got so strapping oh please… (hissing teeth)
Exactly right minnie. You know my take on giving everyone the benefit of the doubt, but she is one person who was able to beat the drug tests. No way that woman ran those times out of nowhere without extra help. No reason why she would quit at the height of her career and popularity. The only difference between her and Marion Jones is that Jones lived long enough to get busted.
Ottey clean???? lol
WTF something is mentally wrong with this one here as long as an athlete is not a us athlete they are on something a level of objectivity does not exist in the least. there is something definitely wrong. pssst stacy by the way what do you think about crawford going 2 john smith
Minnie, I was going to answer Mickey until I realized that he is under the belief that everyone except for Jeter is dirty, which shows that not only is his reasoning and judgment off, but that his mental ability is suspect. No point arguing with someone like that.
Now, it was just announced on Friday that yet another US athlete has been banned for 2 years for taking PEDs from Balco. It would seem that with the number of US athletes dropping like flies from the Balco fallout, that people like Mickey would think twice about pointing fingers at other athletes. It amuses me when I think of how many people thought Bolt could not have run 9.69 without “help”, but when Gay does it while injured, he is just skilled. Things that make you go “hmmmm”.
let me forgeo giving my opinion of John Smith for a moment to ask this question, why doesn’t crawford just retire? He is up there in age, and his times have been in a steady decline since the 2004 Olympics. He has been fit for the last 2 championships and yet if Spearmon and Martina weren’t disqualified, he wouldn’t have even walked away with a medal. Nor will he ever beat Bolt or Gay or Powell or any of the top sprinters in a major event. Now he has switched coaches as if Smith has some kind of magic potion, oh wait a minute…
Past all the magic potion comments, (rolls eyes) lol, I wanted to bring this forum back to Jeter. It seems she has a tall order this indoor season. Lavern Jones-Ferrette is really sticking it to her this season. If Jeter aint careful, Jones may very well get to Wr before Jeter does. And we still got a month left to the season
stacy i almost feel embarassed now for even dignifying his useless post with an answer lol you which you were big enough and others were thought were 2 idiotic to answer i just couldnt help myself but i think il follow ur example. then stacy how many of we feel say tyson was really injured 4 real what about wrapping your mind around the idea that he had some mould on his balls there is no way i can envisage some1 walking with a groin injury much less running those times i think it was a ruse 2 distract asafa put him 2 sleep and 2 dodge bolt what do u really think.? i dont doubt his capabilities but i think his injury was false
on the crawford issue u 2 bad lol…
nathaniel jones is going 2 crack that record she is the real deal
Mickey I would like to ad one note the comment you made about Merlene Ottey. I just want to inform you that Merlene ottey is the only athlete I know of that having failed a doping test, she was so sure of herslef that she took the findings to court. and it was found that there was nothing wrong her urine smple. the positive test resulted from the fact that the lab technician in charge of conducting the test, demonstrated incompetence by using the wrong numerical Values while attemting to calculate the specific Gravity for the steroid known as Nandrolone. if any other athlete were so sure of themselve they would have been well within their rights to fight any positive findings for drug tests. the fact that shefaught the findings even when others like yourself doubted her is testiment to her greatness. It is no wonder that she has won more medals than any other human being in track and field, in International Competition. don’t try to taint my girl’s reputation with your slander. we deal with facts, not slander.
Carmelita Jeter and Laverne Jones-Ferrette are DRUG CHEATS. Their muscles have been blatantly enhanced by a combination of human growth hormone and steroids. I want to believe that every athlete is clean but we live in the real world. You may think they are clean but would it really surprise you if they were caught taking drugs?
LOOK AT THEIR PHYSIQUES AND THE DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR TIMES FOR YOUR PROOF.
JETER IS FASTER THAN MARION JONES ON DRUGS!
in my humble opinion waynef ,, i know jamaica has some terrific female sprinters currently but in my mind merlene ottey is the greatest sprinter from jamaica, she was probably denied a gold medal or two because of the others being juiced up. i admire her courage and determination, also her longevity.
On a different note, congratulations to Kenia Sinclair who won the 1000m at the Reebok Boston Indoor meet. Her last 50m was simply amazing.
She has broken the national record so many times, and I don’t think she get’s enough respect for her achievements simply because Jamaica doesn’t seem to have any real focus on middle distance events. However, the win was even better because Ato Boldon and the rest were only focused on Anna Pierce and basically concluded that she would win before the race even begun. So nuff respect to Kenia.
lol stacy the victory was sweeter that boy ato usi…… yes waynef thank u for answering i dont feel 2 badly now
my fellow commentators….you-all know yourself…don,t feed into Mickey,s nonsense…for all he does is through some silly question out there to spark a reaction or a conversation…or who knows…maybe he fines you guys comments stimulating…..but if you notice him….when he writes…he does not elaborate on any subject….what happened Mickey….do you think they are going to charge you for writing a little bit more in your column? or maybe your a man of few words? or maybe your just dam limited…..stop asking dumb question about Queen Merlene….it is already bad that they all robbed her of her many golds over the years…and now here you are Mickey…desperately seeking ways to slander her impeccable name.
roots he is what you refer 2 as marginal either that or as you say he feels if he writes more than those little stupid comments then he will be charged extra. life rough eeh roots can you imagine our beloved ottey after being robbed of medals & endorsements 2 be now slandered in that fashion she decided 2 play by the rules & keep clean he should b ashamed of himself
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I believe Carmelita Jeter is taking performance inhancement drugs no doubt, her hold physical structure has gotten so muscular in a short time and her speed increase too quickly, i believe she is juicing up they should test her for steriods.
Jeter the Cheater!!!
Well,whatever shes done,and what ever shes on,the results are spectacular.Im sure a large number of runners,throwers,cyclists,swimmers,body builders and weightlifters are on something,and usually it isn’t porridge,and wild yam extract….as it is,jeter looks no different to shelly-ann fraser,whom she beat,in that athens race,and who is just as likely to be juiced.Of course,we just don’t know.