100y = 91.4m and we know that so Usain Bolt passed 90m during his WR, in 8.75. So if you interpolate the last 10m which he covered in 0.83, then he wouldve ran a bit under 8.9 seconds for 100y. maybe 8.87.
@@comradeidiotstick6788Yeah Su has the fastest 1st 60m and one of the slowest last 40m. Baker literally caught him at the end and Jacobs was 2 hundredths behind. Su had such a bad race strategy and burned himself out before the finals. If he ran 9.83 in the final he had a silver medal instead he came in 6th and ran like 9.98.
@@gmaxsfoodfitness3035 His only goal was to make it to the finals since he didn't think he was in medal contention as he had never run under 9.9 seconds before that, he treated his semi-final as his final as he was only focused on being one of the first Asians to make an Olympic final. And yeah he's not really good at speed maintenance because being 5'7 Su can't really improve that, so he focused on improving his start to be one of the best. Also it's so fucking stupid to call his last 40m slow as he's still an Olympian and that 40m is probably faster than anything you can run.
He claimed he was the fastest man but the 100m champion is always the fastest then he lost against him in a match race. Johnson was good but Bailey was better.
@@Leonidas-eu9bb I disagree and so did Johnson (he was definitely a better overall sprinter than Bailey though). MJ said himself that he wasn't very good in the 100m compared to the specialists (he said he wouldn't be winning any 100m championships) so he never focused on it. He clocked 10.09 and he said he possibly could've run faster if he did more 100m races but then he wouldn't have done so well in the 200m and 400m. I think he could've run 9.9 at best if he focused on it more but he probably wouldn't have broken the 400m record because he would've been spending too much time on the 100m.
He's the living proof that the "school book start for sprinters" isn't for everyone. USA has some other good examples of sprinters that fall outside "the school book sprinting technique". Calvin Smith is one, and Evelyn Aschford another. Just amazing runners to watch.
@@arogueburritoHi again! I checked this with a english speaking lecturer at Stockholm University. He says there are regional, class- and age related differences how these concepts are used. But thank you for informing me about your opinion. It made me look deeper into this question.
@@jayjordan7257Oh yeah there's definitely faster times: Bolt was unofficially timed at 8.94 in Beijing 2008 and 8.87 in Berlin 2009, Mo Greene in Edmonton 2001 was low 9.0 is another example. With proper bonafide timing though Powell is the official record holder.
@@itsnotclex Yeah, no sh!t Sherlock. That's the point. We all know Americans are so very precious about their imperial measurements, that's why they had to hold a race in yards so they could feel included. Races held in metres are a bit confusing for them.
@@itsnotclex What the uploader is saying is that Powell ran 9.07 for 100 yards during a 100 metre sprint. But the question is, who cares? Americans? Probably.
