Nick symmonds wins Portland track festival 100m

He is the only entry?

Did they just put out the event so that he can put it on YouTube?

was he naked?

And for us heteros, was SHE naked?

The Diamond League should have fun events like this before the main card. It would be more interesting than the kids races.

Imagine Nick vs Rudisha vs El G in the 100m wife carry?

Jokes like that aside - I think T&A should take advantage of existing technology and have an event called something like "The flying 10 meters" in the middle of the home stretch (and maybe allow for betting on results) between other events.

Just measure/time how fast athletes can run between the 50 and 60 meter marks with a self selected run-up distance before pushing it to the max. It's not a given that the regular sprinters would win this (though surely they'd be favorites) - some middle distance guys have good top speed when not exhausted - not to mention long jumpers and pole vaulters (Bubka at his peak supposedly was at least a 10.2 guy in the 100 meters when he tested without no special training for it).

Or the 10m self hand timed sprint.

I like rojo's idea of the randomly placed 400H, every lane different. Could be no hurdles in the first 100 then 3 then 7 in the home straight vs all 10 in the first 100 etc. Competitors draw for lanes and are blindfolded until just before the gun.

Was he kidnapping someone?

pics?

Bro...Matt London would destroy us in a flying 10. He's 220 pounds too don't you know?

To clearify: It would not just be about measuring top speed period - there should be an element of timing to it, like when long jumpers have to hit the plank just right these runners would have to nail their top speed 10 meters to match a fixed measuring zone so as to get an element of get-it-right into the competition.

And measuring should be done down to 1/1000 of a second.

Would the WR be around 0,850 seconds, or maybe even lower?

They should head to the World championship in Helsinki

Wife-carrying

They were both very wet (click the video in the result)

Was actually quite impressive. Fireman's carry, good knee lift in the pouring rain, ran through the tape. Sort of looked like foreplay.

That's actually pretty impressive, although weird that their was actually an existing world record for doing that. Helps that he chose a wife that's barely 100lbs.

Half the prestige is having a petite wife.