Down goes Merritt!! Santos (44.82) over Merritt (44.86) in Jamaica

Flo'da boy wrote:Hey Vent, I was excited back when he said that

then you woudn't have been talking rubbish off a 6.65i

it's no big deal for someone who can think

I really am sorry for showing enthusiasm for an athlete I like though, I know how stupid that is.

plenty aplomb

but if couda figured out/listened to ~ 44.4

you wouda known to shown restraint, as ~ 44.4 ain't beating lashawn/kirani sbs & shoudn't get into top 5's if americans fire

If you want though we can talk about how amazing Jim Ryan could have been! Did you know he could run 3:24??

who are you talkin about idiot ?

Several things

1. I am not saying your projections are incorrect. I may have overblown the value of the 60m time because we so rarely see 400m specialists run the time and because several 100m specialists (Lemaitre, Kiryu) were running within a few hundredths of it (combined with my murky understanding of the 60m)

2. You could simply point out that the time is not as outstanding as I made it out to be without being condescending. I said I was excited to see him improve (he said he thinks he can run 44.4 but he hasn't done it yet!) not that he was Michael Johnson reincarnate. Not every argument has to end up a screaming match

Flo'da boy wrote:I am not saying your projections are incorrect

rarely for sprinters

the maths is damn basic

6.50i = 10.00 = 20.00 = 44.50 = 1'43.00 = 3'30.125

I may have overblown the value of the 60m time because we so rarely see 400m specialists run the time and because several 100m specialists (Lemaitre, Kiryu) were running within a few hundredths of it (combined with my murky understanding of the 60m)

learn something important

the "pure" mathematical equivalent of distances :

see

Malmo Files

then

Venolin worksheet

the 100 to 200 is obvious - it's double

that table tells you what :

19.75 = for 400, 800, 1500,...

Well, Merritt took his revenge in dominant fashion, clocking 44.44, half a second ahead of Santos (44.94). Between them were Yousef Masrahi (of Saudi Arabia) in 44.77, Maslak in 44.79 (NR), and Tony McQuay (??)