TrackCoach wrote:
Beep Beep wrote:
What are you not believing? Get your watch and do as we've done for years... go off the gun and stop on the body dip. Re-watch and re-time over and over. He ran fast... period.
Obviously this is a situation where I would love to be wrong and I could be, but I have been around the block a few times and I am probably right on this one . A wind-aided 9.96 would have been noteworthy, but 9.86 from 400m runner in his first race of the year is a bridge too-far.
Well it is wind aided. It was a +1.6 which last time I checked, while not being a gale force storm, is still wind aided and makes a difference irrespective of it being legal. Now we have that out of the way...
He ran 9.86 - look I am shocked too but someone else said this - do we really think these guys are so stupid to run either 100y or somehow f$#k with timing? I mean the other guys in this race are pretty well known too so there is zero chance this happened. I mean it's clearly 100m so if anything it's fishy it's timing but you think these guys had someone there who even knows how to mess with that intentionally?
The only thing I can think of is they may not have had the reaction time gun set up or working. It is possible then that Norman, who appears to have a Christian Coleman'esque start in this one just caught the start. That may be worth 1/10th of a second at the absolute max but more likely in the region of 5-6 hundredths if that was the case.
But again, that's pure conjecture. Either way he ran 100m in 9.86 seconds. Pretty straight forwards to me.