Your post made sense, until this part:
"Marita Koch, a woman..."
Your post made sense, until this part:
"Marita Koch, a woman..."
Oh, by the way, Robben was running on grass ... and kicking a ball. Anything under 11sec/100m is pretty impressive.
Thinking about it more - sprinters and footballers run very differently. If you look at Bolt's sprint, his form has all his energy is up and down and leaning forward. Footballers run and cut.
If you look Robben's run, he's not running in straight line, and his form has his arms crossing his body instead of building momentum like a sprinter would.
Grass, competing for position, and the changes in form - I have no doubt that if Robben trained to run as a sprinter he would be world class, Olympic fast.
Bolt would not have made that run AND possess the ball AND stop on dime AND deliver a tremendous left foot. Not that he couldn't, but that's not his training.
Jack Dutton wrote:
Oh, by the way, Robben was running on grass ... and kicking a ball. Anything under 11sec/100m is pretty impressive.
Robben did not run 100 meters in under 11 seconds.
He momentarily reached a top speed of 37 kph, as it said in the original link.
The story did not suggest he covered 100 meters during his pickup.
coach d wrote:
Yet another case of a wannabe wishing he was actually fast.
Distance runners = wannabe athletes
Soccer players= wannabe athletes
We eagerly anticipate which sport you add to the list next!
A few things come to mind: If the speed of the players were
meassured regularly and reliably, no player who's
been training hard for years would suddenly
outclass not only his own personal best
but also the "world record" with 1.3km/h. Do you
realize what kind of difference that is
on a highly competitive level? And to do it after
80minutes, running with the ball...
The false information actually started on twitter and were taken for truth
by the "critical thinkers" of the internet.
Here are the official numbers from Fifa (Junior Diaz reached the highest speed):
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/statistics/players/distance.html
"Arjen Robben says he always suspected his 'new' sprint speed world record for a footballer was not legitimate....Robben's speed has now been amended to 31km/h - and the Dutchman is not in the least bit surprised...":
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You can't hold top speed for 100m and they missed the start as well