The Olympic Trivial Thing Thread.
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Mad Doug Biker
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It has now been rounded down to 9.63.
I remember when Linford Cristie set the new world record, it was 9.95. looking at the times, even the Dutch guy in 6th posted a 9.94!
Asapha Powell didn't look too healthy though, and I don't mean the ill advised goatee either....
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Arch
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NT was saying earlier, it would be interesting to graph the 'metres of long jump' against the 'seconds of 100m' and watch the two numbers converging. Wonder if they'll ever meet!
There must be a point at which 100m just cannot be run faster, without surgically lengthened legs.
Mad Doug Biker
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Quite. I just wait to see when the first sub 9 second run is.... if it is even physically possible I mean.
The world record is currently 9.58, so in a few years time, who knows?
PpPete
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I doubt we'll see sub 9 seconds in our lifetimes
Sub 9.5...maybe even sub 9.4 but sub 9.0 ? Would be happy to be proved wrong though .
Sub 9.5...maybe even sub 9.4 but sub 9.0 ? Would be happy to be proved wrong though .
Mad Doug Biker
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If Bolt had not irritatingly decided to show boat during the final in 2008, then we can only guess what he would have done. I wonder though, in the final earlier, he was going flat out and was still slower than he was in 2008, so has he lost his edge?
MrJamie
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It would seem Bolt's weakness is his starts and he implied that he'd been too worried about them which would explain his famous DQ, that in London he basically started safely and relied on his pace to overtake before the end. Perhaps if he keeps using that safer tactic, we wont see him better his time, but I wouldnt be suprised if he crossed the line faster this time than the showboat WR, its such small fractions of seconds. I thought it was interesting to see the difference in build between Bolt and Blake who's a lot more stocky.
Mad Doug Biker
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Err, he didn't.
Even with the slightly slower start I'd have thought he would have been able to cancel out the time he lost showboating in 2008 (he stopped trying after about 60 meters for crying out loud!), so to me, he was certainly slower overall this time, even though it was only fractions of a second.
MrJamie
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Ooops I seem rather good at not making my point very well recently
What Id meant was that with his relatively slow start this time and really gunning for it rather than saluting the crowd, despite his time being a teeny bit slower I wondered if the actual speed he was travelling when he crossed the line might have been higher than 2008.Mad Doug Biker
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Ooops I seem rather good at not making my point very well recently
Ah, ok, sorry, yes, I have no doubt he did. He was still slower overall though!
Cush
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Amazed that some one hasn't shoved a microphone down the throat of some interviewers or at least chinned one of them. The stupid questions they ask some one, who has just come in second or third and is totally nan tucked, is beyond belive but the prize must go to the person who interviewed the poor fellow who just won bronze in the rowing and was totally gone, the man could hardly stand and here was Redgrave and the reporter trying to speak to him!!.
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I felt for the British chap who lost out during a 400m heat, he apologised for letting everyone down 
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PpPete
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getting worried about the 2024 Olympics now...
Just hoping Team GB's gold medal haul doesn't take a dive 12 years after hosting the Games in the way the Aussies have done.
Just hoping Team GB's gold medal haul doesn't take a dive 12 years after hosting the Games in the way the Aussies have done.
rikki
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Anyone see the bottle thrown onto the track seconds before last night's 100m final?
The chap who did it chose the wrong person to be sitting next to...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19149278
How fabulous if every oik suddenly found themselves on the wrong end of an Olympic athlete....
The chap who did it chose the wrong person to be sitting next to...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19149278
How fabulous if every oik suddenly found themselves on the wrong end of an Olympic athlete....
