The 100 Meter Dash Is Officially Broken 

Yep. High schoolers are about to cap their school schedule off and run state while pros run well into the summer. All about timing for what your doing

Spot on.

That doesn't explain why don't see sub 10s a decade ago. It's also weired that only US highshoolers ran such incredible times.

@@Leonidas-eu9bb pretty sure the comment was in reference to the point at which the fast times are ran. Im sure the faster times in general can be attributed to better technology, training and access to more advanced training for younger sprinters on top of just raw talent. Im sure theres more to it but thats just the obvious to me.

@@Leonidas-eu9bb I agree. It's a massive dip in times. My theory is that all of these great times are helping get closer to a new world record. Every little bit helps.

Crazy at 18 years old

Being 18 and clocking below 10 seconds crazy

@@Vatsal1285and?

*99.9

@@BatmanTheDarkKnightImhim?? It was 9.97

Boonson barely started his season just ran 10.08. I think he’s . 18

Yeah at 16 also he ran 10.09. I think if he went to a d1 school in usa. He’ll get much faster.

Gout Gout be coming for those records ;)

Mathew Bowling ran a 9.7 in high school 3years ago

Beginning*

Kinda ironic

It happened in 2014, not this year

@@penge3325that's what he said the video says 2024 instead of 2014

It wasn't a typo, Bromell set the time in 2014 and if you watched the whole video he says it again at 1:55

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It has to be. I am from England. At 16 years old, I sprinted 100m in 11.4 seconds. Not exactly fast compared to these lads, but it set the county record at the time. I'm 42 now, and my body hasn't aged well (13 years in the Army and too much rugby) but with the new sprinting shoes from 2023, I was still able to finish 100m in 12.9 on track. I have looked after myself the best I can, I'm still strong and I have a lot of loading/launch potential in my legs so I get off the line fast, but I should see a bigger decrease in sprint speed after 26 years. Out of curiosity, I ran the 100m on a school field, grass, no sprinting spikes, just regular running trainers. My time was 16.1 seconds. I don't remember the gap being so significant from grass to track when I was a teenager -2 seconds at the very most? To my knowledge, track surfaces haven't changed that much; the amount of spring from the track feels similar (accounting for age and the resultant memory fatigue) and the grip was close enough to what I remembered that I couldn't tell the difference (with the same memory caveat as before) between them. I appreciate that diet and training are constantly being tweaked. New legal supplements (I hadn't even heard of Creatine back when I was young) are used, but I can't see how a legal supplement would give that sort of boost. So we could have one of, or a combination of these potential explanations: 1. An exotic, undetectable P.E.D. upis in use. 2. Sneaky spike technology similar to the long-distance shoes that caused so much controversy a few years ago. 3. Some of the sprinters could be lying about their age; it happens, no one should dismiss it because it is rare. 4. These lads are phenomenal athletes and sprinting is set to have its records shattered. I hope it is 4, I want to believe it is 4. But I will not close my mind to the other possibilities. However, being a phenomenal athlete should not necessarily lead to accusations, but questions must be asked for sport to remain fair and viable.

@@madMARTYNmarsh1981 - I went to high school in Germany, on a US Air Force Base. I ran 11.5 for 100m. This was in 1972, and was a VERY fast time. I was 16 as well. Now, I am close to 68, and still play basketball, a lot. 100% honestly, I am still quite fast. Oddly so. I have been looking for a senior track event, so I can smash whomever is there.

@@dennissvitak5475 dude, LOVE THIS! You’re a monster, would love to see it

@@trossrunnin - Not a monster..but peeps think I am in my mid '40's, not almost 68.

@@madMARTYNmarsh1981 ty 4 sharing

It's the shoes

@@luckyduck7073 It's the performance enhancing drugs

Terrance Laird too, what happened to him again 😢

Unless he works on the first half of his race he'll never win anything major.

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Do you know that they haven’t been tested?

The runners usually get tested immediately following a race, especially if a record had just been broken. World Athletics doesn't ratify any records until the urine samples have been analyzed and checked, and for appropriate blocks to be used for that race.

@@Samsation93not high school. College not sure

@@Samsation93 they're not testing high school athletes.

But not at age 17.

His titles are clickbaity

If he’s really doping. He’ll just disappear in college and be forgotten. A waste

@@23glo59 He might be dicovered by a company that have quiestionable medical practises, and get offered a big sum to lay of the career. Then he can train in the shadows for four years under extreme doping regiment and then do a comeback if that couts and break Bolt's WR straight out from the gun and dominate for five sesaons on the track.

@@janerikkvarsten2273 As the Saying goes..Whats done in the dark shall come to light. Real champs more confident then that

Go to hell lmao

What exactly are Lyles' standards? Last season he was at the exact same spot.

@@Yes_I_c4nlyles standards are 9:8x in a Caribbean meet…

@@robinbauer1975 Lol, don't say nonsense. Lyles ran a wind aided 9.8s last season (+4.4 m/s). That's not his standard... His standard is 10s ish as season opener..