Lots of Salty Americans in the comments here, yep Aussies can sprint too. Jog on you wankers
If you take these times at face value, then Aidan Murphy is now on the same level as Garrett Kaalund. Ha! See what happens if they actually race. Kaalund with crush him.
My first guess is that something was funny with the wind rather than the timing. I don't know a huge amount about that venue, but from the video it looked like somewhat of a bowl shape, and that can lead to swirling conditions. I don't think one wind gauge completely captures the dynamic of the wind in a 200m in those circumstances.
It's the wind on the bend - non-sprinters don't get it.
The wind gauge only measures the wind on the straight. You can have a +4.0 wind around the bend and it's all fine. You want a diagonal tailwind, that is a bit more across the field, then dies a bit in the straight.
It happens -0 you get 200 races where a bunch of people PB, because the wind was right. This was also a nationals champ. Gout ran 19.85 just illegal last year, so not a stretch to improve by that much from 17 to 18yo.
Murphy has had big improvements in every event this year, including 1 second off his 400 time. So with perfect winds, not a stretch to see him improving by 0.4-0.5.
Investigate all you want, but the times stand and are legit.
Exactly, a perfect wind of +1.7 down the straight, could have been higher on the bend and still be legal, so perfect conditions for a PB. One track I used to work out on had the quirk that if you had a headwind on one straight you had a headwind all around the track due to the swirl!
Here's the official wind measurement method:
Official Measurement Protocol for 200m Placement: The anemometer must be placed beside the straightaway (home stretch), adjacent to lane 1, preferably 50 meters from the finish line. Positioning: It must be no more than 2 meters from the edge of the track and positioned approximately 1.22 meters above the track surface. Timing of Measurement: The wind gauge begins measuring when the first athlete enters the straightaway. Duration: The wind speed is averaged over a 10-second duration.
First, a 400m in a horseshoe stadium and a swirling tailwind all the way around. Great!
Second, a 60m prelim at a USAT&F master's indoor championship meet. We looked up at the posted times. All PBs for our age group. Went to the meet officials to point out that the times posted were way too fast. They dug in and insisted that their timing equipment was spot on, was calibrated, and incapable of a timing error. We insisted there was a timing error and that we were not asking for faster times, but slower times! They still insisted that we go away. After an hour or so they posted revised slower prelim times (which were much more in line to what we thought we had run). So don't let them feed you BS about 100% accuracy of timing equipment.
Erin Brown may be the worlds biggest rage baiter but one thing bro is absolutely right about is you cannot trust sprint times ran in Australia. Dudes always fold and never near those times in big championship meets.
I mean Gout Gout won the race, now him in a field of legit guys, a 19.67 would be viewed as a solid but I think faster than that is needed to win a medal in 2027 and definitely in 2028 a think a sub 19.6 would be needed.
nobody who listens to their conscience or has a properly calibrated moral compass would use 'X' twitter. The increased 'users' you speak about are actually bots, not humans, or foreign actors that get paid to stir the pot.
Totally uncalled for statement in my view especially because of Gaut's age and the fact that he hasn't just popped out from the blue, he has been exceptional since pre-teen years in primary school .I think you are out of order on this one mate.
the JOKE that is americans trying to argue that the wind was quite the reason for these these PBs, when some of your high school/college meets (and records) sometimes happen under hurricane winds and you never bat an eye at those!!!
It's obvious to everyone that pacing affects the 800m in a way that it does not in the 200m. Sure, people run faster with someone to chase in the 200m, but there's no drafting. In the 800m, Rudisha pushed to grab the lead at 200m and the rest of the field drafted off of him the last 600m at incredible speed, 24/49/51, which is why they all pr'd.
I heard they also had Jonathan Gault's tweet on the TV.
The article is good.
1) It basically states as fact there was a PERFECT wind.
Matthew Sullivan and Dylan Terry wrote:
The swirling diagonal breeze in Sydney gave the 200m runners a kick off the bend, one that wasn’t deemed to be an illegal tailwind.
2) Justin Gatlin is also 'doubting' the time.
Gatlin said:
“You’ve got to do it outside of Australia. Show us you can do it outside Australia. That’s the thing.
as is Tate Taylor's coach:
Tate and Jake’s coach indirectly saying Gout’s 19.67 was fraudulent. Gotta do it twice. Ironic coming from a Texas coach though. Gatlin and him are right though, as an athlete you have to do it twice or at least get close to it overseas pic.twitter.com/3lrsUYdE0B
This site is promoting rage bait for the sake of its own popularity. If it's not drug talk, it's wind talk, or age talk, or gender talk, or efforts to denigrate -- an attempt to define what's hot off the press for the sake of centrality.
I don't think that race was suspicious in the way of, for instance, our fave the 1988 US OT Women's 100 final. LOL! In Indy you could hear the roaring of the wind into the mic for every event, the TJ had illegal wind same time, their hair was being whipped while in the blocks, and yet somehow there was no wind for FloJo's heat.
Gout went sub-20 windy before so this isn't a megasmash by him. I think it just represents good solid progression in good conditions. Murphy 19.88 is more surprising...however just maybe he delivered a lifetime performance in what others term the unicorn conditions. If he follows up anywhere with a 20.2 or better, then OK, this is likely legit.
Let's just be happy that the wind gauge didn't spit out "0.0" like it did back in Indy, '88.
That would have been a real bummer. He gets the "wind of a lifetime" - some big diagonal zephyr that only registers +1.7 on the straight but it reads 0.0 when everyone knows there was at least some kind of wind. James Templeton going ballistic in some post-race deliberation about not ratifying the mark because the gauge was faulty because that was probably worth an extra 150-200k as a performance rollover in his contract.
nobody who listens to their conscience or has a properly calibrated moral compass would use 'X' twitter. The increased 'users' you speak about are actually bots, not humans, or foreign actors that get paid to stir the pot.
Oy vey. The pain. Thanks for the insight, fellow white person.
