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Dan Chief Pontificator
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Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: Gatlin 9.76 WR |
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http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/5600872
Wow, that's real fast, real early. I hope he has better luck than others before him at maintaining that sort of early season form. Powell didn't fare too well last year...
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Eddd the Sailor Water Boy
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Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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Someone's gonna have a good year. Earlier he said he wasn't gonna do too well; I hope that doesn't mean he's gonna be peaking too early or something. But hey, if you have the record, that's plenty fast anyways... _________________ My Athlinks profile - some road races I've done and stuff |
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Indeurr Olympic Medalist
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 6:16 am Post subject: Re: Gatlin 9.76 WR |
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Dan wrote: | http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/5600872
Wow, that's real fast, real early. I hope he has better luck than others before him at maintaining that sort of early season form. Powell didn't fare too well last year...
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I already have written in these fora that Justin Gatlin will dominate; however, Olusoji A. Fasuba, and not his Nemesis, Asafa Powell, seems to be his main competitor so far. I would love to see a three—way duel between Gatlin, Powell, and Fasuba – my ‘bet’ would be on the Nigerian because while Powell and Gatlin would keep “eyes” on each other, Fasuba would win unnoticed by the duelers. _________________ http://vincovitanj.tripod.com/Do_not_be_a_victim1/index.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u43o595CARQ
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X King Varsity
Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 431 Location: Great Britain
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Awesome stuff from Gatlin - but I don't see him getting any quicker this year. Mind you I never thought he would win Olympics '04 or break the WR of 9.77 so that shows how much I know! LoL
Two versions of Gat's WR can be found at the following site:
http://folk.uio.no/perel/
The rest of the season should be awesome - Powell is running tonight so look for a fast time from him - wonder how he'll respond to Gat's WR?!? _________________ Doubt whom you will, But never yourself.
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X King Varsity
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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Churandy Martin also ran 9.76, but he was aided by altitude and +6.1 following wind! 9.76 is still fast though, no matter what the wind is. That is only 2nd to Obadele Thompson's 9.69w (1995) with +5.7m/s as one of the fastest 100m under any conditions - Martin's 9.76w equates to around
10.06/10.07 with still +0.0 wind and his PR is 10.04 I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) so he could threaten Boldon's NCAA record 9.92 at the NCAA Champs in June
http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/tfn/displayArticle.jsp?id=9239 _________________ Doubt whom you will, But never yourself.
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Dan Chief Pontificator
Joined: 22 Mar 1999 Posts: 9334 Location: Salem, OR
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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I still don't know where that wind reading came from on Obadele's "record" run... All the reports at the time said there was no wind reading, but one magically appeared several years later.
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Dan Chief Pontificator
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't notice it initially, but the wind for Gatlin's WR run was the max allowable +2.0 mph, identical to that of Montgomery's 9.78.
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Dan Chief Pontificator
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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, T&FN has the wind listed as +1.7 mph...
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Eddd the Sailor Water Boy
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Dan Chief Pontificator
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Wow. What idiot was put in charge of reading the photo? You should never even be seeing the thousandths in the software unless you need to zoom in to break a tie.
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Fry the Sailor Junior Varsity
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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Tieing the WR is still awesome _________________ Je suis rapide! |
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Dan Chief Pontificator
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Sure, but how do you let a mistake like that slip through the cracks? It's not some podunk meet with inconsequential hand times...
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Indeurr Olympic Medalist
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Conway Olympic Medalist
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Where have I been ??? The wind was always 1.7 ... Apparently the annoucner kept saying that the wind had to be 2.0 for it to be legal, so it was reported that the wind was 2.0 ... If you had the chance to watch a video of the race it always read 1.7 ...
As for the rounding error, that is not uncommon for something like that to happen ... Everyone is always SO in a hurry to get results out ... I think the problem with the whole thing is the "urgency" that people have now with results ... I remember when a 20 minute wait was normal ... Making the crowd wait just a couple of minutes to make sure that everything is in order should be status quo ... But everyone wants to know as soon as the athletes cross the line ...
As a result of this read, there are a lot of people crying foul, when the only problem here is that it occured on a WR race ... If there were no record there would be no issue/controversy ... This stuff happens all the time ... Even at Olympics and Worlds you will see times adjusted between rounds/races ... But note that there is always a momentary lull in a final before the "official" time is announced ... _________________ Conway
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Dan Chief Pontificator
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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But, but... You should never be viewing the thousandths unless you're specifically zooming in for that level of precision, such as to break a tie. The software does the rounding for you, so human error shouldn't even enter the equation unless you're dumb enough to intentionally introduce it.
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