Mens 3 K will be very difficult to beat. Paula in the Marathon will take 10 years at least. Mens 100 and 200 are impossible if Bolt takes a dump....which may be in progress....very possible..you heard it here first!
Mens 3 K will be very difficult to beat. Paula in the Marathon will take 10 years at least. Mens 100 and 200 are impossible if Bolt takes a dump....which may be in progress....very possible..you heard it here first!
I'm gonna put in my vote for the mens' shot put. I saw a video of Randy Barnes throw the world record one time on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPZwXF1Xcpw). He had on a shirt that said "Mazda" - I honest to god thought he was a truck. Dude through 79' on a foul.
Also, why is it that in 42 years only Mike Powell has jumped farther than Bob Beamon? Surely altitude can't count for that much? Assuming a lot of people in the 80s and 90s were on PEDs, why did't anybody outjump Beamon? Was he just that good? Did he just have the PERFECT jump? That is so incredible - it's like if Steve Prefontaine had up and dropped a 12:39.
Pedro from NC wrote:
I'm gonna put in my vote for the mens' shot put. I saw a video of Randy Barnes throw the world record one time on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPZwXF1Xcpw). He had on a shirt that said "Mazda" - I honest to god thought he was a truck. Dude through 79' on a foul.
Also, why is it that in 42 years only Mike Powell has jumped farther than Bob Beamon? Surely altitude can't count for that much? Assuming a lot of people in the 80s and 90s were on PEDs, why did't anybody outjump Beamon? Was he just that good? Did he just have the PERFECT jump? That is so incredible - it's like if Steve Prefontaine had up and dropped a 12:39.
Yes...Bob Beamon really DID have a perfect jump. He only took one in the olympics, and then when he heard the mark he had a seizure.
Results were: Bob Beamon: 8.90, Klaus Beer 8.19, Ralph Boston 8.16
he won by 2 feet 4 inches.
How about the high jump and Sotomayer? No one's jumped close to that for quite sometime.
I think the Women's marathon WR will be around for a VERY long time.
As others have mentioned, there really is no mark that can touch 8:06.11. The scoring tables consider it to be superior to every track record, equating it to:
10.46
21:20
47.3
1:52.2
3:49.24
13:55
29:10
2:14.50
Combine that with the few times the event is run and the african indifference to the event (Dibaba and Defer should be running 8:15 or so, but there's no point)and tghe answer becomes clear. To be honest I don't think a drugged athlete could break it even and an EPO'd Szabo and Sonia would still be a world away.
concao wrote:
As others have mentioned, there really is no mark that can touch 8:06.11. The scoring tables consider it to be superior to every track record, equating it to:
10.46
21:20
47.3
1:52.2
3:49.24
13:55
29:10
2:14.50
Combine that with the few times the event is run and the african indifference to the event (Dibaba and Defer should be running 8:15 or so, but there's no point)and tghe answer becomes clear. To be honest I don't think a drugged athlete could break it even and an EPO'd Szabo and Sonia would still be a world away.
When it comes to Junxia Wang there are only two options as far as I'm concerned
A: she's the most talented female distance runner the world has ever seen.
B: she's the most talented female distance runner the world has ever seen who was also on drugs.
Nothing else can explain 8.06
sub3over40 wrote:
Mens 3 K will be very difficult to beat. Paula in the Marathon will take 10 years at least. Mens 100 and 200 are impossible if Bolt takes a dump....which may be in progress....very possible..you heard it here first!
That's what people said about 19.32.
Gebreselassies Marathon
Radcliffs Marathon
Had a seizure? Or was so amazed that he got weak and couldn't do another jump? Watch the video on youtube and tell me where the seizure is...
Records likely to last longest:
Women's Marathon
Men's Field Events
Women's 100m
"Didnt Ana Guevara go 48.89 in 2003?"
why did guevara have a man-shaped adam's apple?
"Which current track WR will last the longest?"
i'd say michael carter's 81' high school shot put.
It’s only when an athlete’s performances start to decline and it’s obvious he or she will never run their fastest times ever again - can we point out the period when they were at their very best, the peak of their career.
If 2009 was Bolt’s peak - then 9.58 and 19.19 will take some beating in the future.
One of these:
Women's 400
Women's 1500
Men's 3000
...and women's HJ if we're including field.
I don’t understand the women’s high jump observation.
The current women’s high jump record is 2.09 by Kostadinova.
Blanka Vlasic jumped 2.08 in 2009.
Not a lot of difference in a centimetre.
Here are the voting results so far, as best as I can tally them--only used comments from which I thought one WR was identifiable as the favorite:
M3000 - 6
W3000 - 4
W100, 400, marathon, M10,000, JT - 3
M100, LJ, 400h, marathon, PV, SP, LJ, HJ, Wheptathlon - 1
M3000 in the lead... can W3000 make up the deficit...W100, W400 and Wmarathon still with a chance...
I'm going to throw in my vote for FloJo's 10.49
Especially since Jeter just finished second in over 11 seconds with a bit of a tailwind
NO WAY that's going down, it's messed up. Drugs gave an advantage in all of these world records, but the wind gave a double advantage in this one. The added factor pushes it over the top, like Beamon's long jump at altitude.
No MoFo touch my FloJo
bump
also womens 100 gets my vote, as it clearly was BS
womens 1500m and 3k are absolutely insane and will probably never be broken
The 3:23 I keep running in my mind is gonna be pretty tough to beat.