planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
5/1000ths of a second! But Thompson's stride was way ahead!
Olympics 2024 - 100m / 200m Sprints (Men / Women)
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Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Torso innit
maybe you want to wind it in a bit noah it's not like you won it easily
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
Cool stat from BBC. A worthy spectacle for the Fastest Man Alive contest.
GarveyLives
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The "fastest 100m race ever":
Gold: Noah Lyles (9.784 secs) (Personal Best)
Silver: Kishane Thompson (9.789 secs)
Bronze: Fred Kerley (9.81 secs) (Season's Best)
4.Akani Simbine (9.82 secs) (National Record)
5.Marcell Jacobs (9.85 secs) (Season's Best)
5.Letsile Tebogo (9.86 secs) (National Record)
7.Kenneth Bednarek (9.88 secs)
8. Oblique Seville (9.91 secs)
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Michael Johnson is 56! How good a shape is he in? Looks like he would still run a mean 200 metres.
And all after having a stroke too.
ETA A few years ago IIRC. I think he's all recovered now but at the time I was like 'fuck, if someone as fit and healthy as him can have one then...
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magneze
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I heard that but how? The world record is 9.58. What am I missing?
Aaronf
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The "fastest 100m race ever":
Gold: Noah Lyles (9.784 secs) (Personal Best)
Silver: Kishane Thompson (9.789 secs)
Bronze: Fred Kerley (9.81 secs) (Season's Best)
4.Akani Simbine (9.82 secs) (National Record)
5.Marcell Jacobs (9.85 secs) (Season's Best)
5.Letsile Tebogo (9.86 secs) (National Record)
7.Kenneth Bednarek (9.88 secs)
8. Oblique Seville (9.91 secs)
Aaronf
159.9 a litre
No one has ever run a faster time when finishing in fourth place of a 100m, Ditto places 5-8.
People have run faster when finishing in places 3-2-1 Usain Bolt has the fastest ever time when finishing 1st in a 100m - the 9.58WR
Aaronf
159.9 a litre
I know it was close but to me Lyles has a decent gap between him and Thompson. As in, Lyles time is actually closer to 9.78 and Thompson 9.79. I guess they can never round down though as the athlete simply hasn't run 9.78, for the purpose of showing times to 2 decimal places (tenths and hundreds) they can only ever round up? If the winning time was 9.781 it would still officially be 9.79.
GarveyLives
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Noah Lyles beat Kishane Thompson by five-thousandths of a second.
Aaronf
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GarveyLives
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The "fastest 100m race ever":
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
Noah Lyles breaks Jamaican hearts ... and gets a Trinidadian apology:
Boo Radley75
I have a lovely missus
To put into context how mad that race was, Oblique Seville, who finished last, was still faster than Carl Lewis when he won Olympic gold in a world record time, in 1988.
GarveyLives
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Asafa Powell believes the delayed start to the 100m final cost Kishane Thompson the Gold medal:
... but the Silver medalist is still considered a hero in his home town:
Boo Radley75
I have a lovely missus
First time Jamaica haven't come away with a 100m gold medal for 20 years.
GarveyLives
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Covid-19 suffering Noah Lyles before the 200m final ...
... and after finishing 3rd.
Congratulations to Letsile Tebogo on his historic 200m Gold medal, only a few weeks after the loss of his beloved Mother, Seratiwa. A remarkable performance and a fine Olympics.
