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So ESPN is running a feature, "The 20 Most Dominant Athletes of Our Time", and Usain Bolt was listed at #10. I cannot fathom how anyone could assemble a compelling list of a nine athletes all deserving to be ahead of him, but okay. We'll see.
http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/...spn-list-most-dominant-athletes-last-20-years
*Edit*
Oh, yeah. Here is the full list:
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/st...on-james-most-dominant-athletes-last-20-years
LOL@Peyton #3. WTF kind of designer street drug has taken over in Bristol, these days?
Anyways, in the article, it said he had a 40-yd Dash time of 3.99s. Incredulous, I went to look that up, and I found a bunch of articles (not just the one that was sourced) that were trying to extrapolate his 40-yard time from looking at his best splits for the 100m between 30m and 40m. Obviously, this isn't totally fair to Usain, since he's not bursting for a pure 40, but subtracting time based on that fair argument cannot be reliable. This time isn't real.
So another Google turned this video up. Impressive:
The thing is that Usain may not even be the best 40-yd dash runner due to his height. Sprinters already knew over 100 years ago that top speed wasn't even reached until the 40-yard mark. Obviously we would look to the 60m champions.
Usain's best split ever at 30m is 3.78s (ran three times including his 2008 and 2012 gold medal races). Apparently Michael Greene (JAM) in 1996 was .01s faster at that mark with 3.77s, but because at that point they've only traveled 32.8 yards, it's tough to believe he would still be ahead by the end of the dash; we know for a fact that Usain had already eclipsed him by 40m.
@senri, have any of these 60m or 100m champions taken a detour recently to specialize in the 40-yd dash training for a little bit just to see what they are capable of? Or at least taken some runs on a track like the guys above?
http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/...spn-list-most-dominant-athletes-last-20-years
*Edit*
Oh, yeah. Here is the full list:
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/st...on-james-most-dominant-athletes-last-20-years
LOL@Peyton #3. WTF kind of designer street drug has taken over in Bristol, these days?
Anyways, in the article, it said he had a 40-yd Dash time of 3.99s. Incredulous, I went to look that up, and I found a bunch of articles (not just the one that was sourced) that were trying to extrapolate his 40-yard time from looking at his best splits for the 100m between 30m and 40m. Obviously, this isn't totally fair to Usain, since he's not bursting for a pure 40, but subtracting time based on that fair argument cannot be reliable. This time isn't real.
ESPN said:Bolt's record 100M time, per MileSplit.com, nets to a sub-4.0 40-yard dash. That would best the NFL combine record of 4.22, set by Bengals WR John Ross.
So another Google turned this video up. Impressive:
The thing is that Usain may not even be the best 40-yd dash runner due to his height. Sprinters already knew over 100 years ago that top speed wasn't even reached until the 40-yard mark. Obviously we would look to the 60m champions.
Usain's best split ever at 30m is 3.78s (ran three times including his 2008 and 2012 gold medal races). Apparently Michael Greene (JAM) in 1996 was .01s faster at that mark with 3.77s, but because at that point they've only traveled 32.8 yards, it's tough to believe he would still be ahead by the end of the dash; we know for a fact that Usain had already eclipsed him by 40m.
@senri, have any of these 60m or 100m champions taken a detour recently to specialize in the 40-yd dash training for a little bit just to see what they are capable of? Or at least taken some runs on a track like the guys above?
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