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Poster: Drew Eckmann
Subject: RE: Flojo's 10.49
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Intergalactic wrote:

[quote]wejo wrote:

I'm sure this has been discussed before but I wanted to open it up again. I'm working on the homepage and read how the Indianapolis track is getting destroyed and its where Flojo ran her 10.49 world record. I always knew people viewed the record as suspect (wind). But then I saw it was in the quarterfinals of the Olympic Trials.

Then I saw an actual video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYdMLIXoPc

I bet most of our viewers have never seen the race. She sure doesn't react like she thinks she just smashed the world record. Can some of the old timers explain how this record is still on the books? Or maybe one of the stat geeks.

They even show the wind gauge going off the charts immediately after her run.


I'm not trying to talk trash, but how could you not know this stuff? Might want to ease back on the poker and read up a bit more on the history of the sport if you want to claim to be a track and field journalist.

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Agreed. I'd say that even a casual fan would know the basic history of this race. For what it's worth, I was sitting in the home stretch that day and don't remember it being super-windy during that race. Although, in real terms, 'windy' conditions aren't that windy at all. Also, why would an old-timer be better suited to explain this record being on the books? Would you need to be a baseball fan in 1961 to 'explain' Roger Maris's asterisk? Track and Field journalist? That's a fraudulent claim.
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