Conspiracy Theories on the Fast Times in Lausanne Can Go Here

Calculator Man

Actually, you and I were both had, so I can't say anything in defense. The WhyRest post was my son who is currently laughing his A** off in the corner at me and you. If he is reading this he will stop laughing soon.

Track times are rounded to the nearest hundredth second (.01). That is really why I have been saying that .005s or more is significant. The world record in the 100m has been lowered by .01s three times since electronic timing was instituted.

And I expect you remember why Justin Gatlin and Asafa Powell currently share the 100m record.

By the way...Justin Gatlin has run sub 20s and was the 2004 olympic 200m bronze medalist.

Calculator man wrote:

...0.019 benefit in the 100m or 0.062 in the 200. Neither is significant.

You are making a laughing stock of yourself. Like I said, I really don't understand your inferior brain to understand, but ask any sprinter, 0.019s is very significant in the 100m. I don't know how to make it any more clear to you. You are incorrect. It's not such a bad thing to be wrong a few times in your life, but not being able to admit it is pretty juvenile. Just realize you don't understand sprint times as well as you wish you did, and either try to do some research, or give up.

And no, I'm not related to Arctic and his/her weird family.

That should read "I really don't expect . . . "

The earth is not flat, the sun does not revolve around the earth, and 0.02s is not insignificant. Get it yet?

Oh my god, will you two please shut the f*ck up? He ran a 19.63. No coulda, woulda, shouldas. 19.63. That is all.

Baby math..... World class 1oo men cover about a 10 meters per sec..... so a tenth of a second would equal about a meter traveled and 1/100 of a second would be about a tenth of a meter. A tenth of a meter is a shade less than 4 inches (39.x divided by 10=3.9 ish inches) thus 2/100 would be about 7 and a half to 8 inches.

Any guy who can honestly tell me gaining 8 extra inches is no big deal,knows nothing about sprinting ;)

wineturtle wrote:

Any guy who can honestly tell me gaining 8 extra inches is no big deal,knows nothing about sprinting ;)

The problem with your logic is that everyone is the race gets that same 8 inches so your point is moot.

19.60 is amazing, but still a long way from 19.32. Everyone needs to keep that in mind. Xavier does seem the best suited to break it if anyone does though.

moot point wrote:

wineturtle wrote:

Any guy who can honestly tell me gaining 8 extra inches is no big deal,knows nothing about sprinting ;)

The problem with your logic is that everyone is the race gets that same 8 inches so your point is moot.

When you compare different races at different locations it becomes germane. I've heard stats guys call this "Basic' idea a way tolevel the differences that location&conditions create and give an approximate idea how to compare disparate events.