The hype is similar to what it was two years ago, when he ran a 10.01 in the 100 meters as a high school senior.
But Yoshihide Kiryu is a different sprinter now, one who is still in the middle of a developing process.
The 19-year-old clocked a wind-assisted time of 9.87 seconds (with a tailwind of 3.3 meters per second) at the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, on March 28. As in 2013, every news show and newspaper treated it as a big occurrence, and a second wave of anticipation to see a Japanese run a sub-10.00 hit Japan's athletics scene.