I don’t believe 100h times are correct. World record broken by .08! 12 PBs set. 5 National records set. And Cindy Sember quote after her PB/NR “I throughly I was running slow!” All athletes looked shocked.
The world record set by Tobi Amusan in the women’s 100m hurdles semi-final at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, the United States, in July has been ratified by the World Athletics. This was disclosed on Tue...
And the Nigerian's haven't forgotten. Not only did Johnson send out that twee, apparently, Johnson made a documentary about 10 years ago where he said the US and Jamaicans had the best sprinters as these were the people who survived the slave trade. DNA research has shown the African genes are the same and these inspired the Africans.
Fascinating twitter thread is here:
Michael Johnson’s skeptical reaction minutes after Tobi Amusan @Evaglobal01's fabulous 100m Hurdles World Record, the first ever World Record set by a Nigerian in the history of Athletics, perhaps serves to reignite the debate around the claim made in his documentary a decade ago pic.twitter.com/kgQKAjR86a
— Making of Champions (@MakingOfChamps) July 27, 2022
So what are the theories about something being wrong? different issue than the Devon Allen episode which appeared to center on sensitivity of blocks.
I’m genuinely curious as to how this happened ——I’m in the camp that there’s no way that this many people ran this many PRs/NRs etc in one set of 3 races — so something happened
And the Nigerian's haven't forgotten. Not only did Johnson send out that twee, apparently, Johnson made a documentary about 10 years ago where he said the US and Jamaicans had the best sprinters as these were the people who survived the slave trade. DNA research has shown the African genes are the same and these inspired the Africans.
Although thinking clearly and analyzing rigorously have never been Ackbar’s strong suits (there was slavery in Africa long before the New World slave trade even started, and there remains such African slavery long after the New World trade ended), he is right to raise the issue.
It has been maybe 10 years or so since I detailed on here the Eugene 13 — that is, the magic 0.13s Eugene advantage in a top men’s 100m race. Same thing, PB’s all over the place. For whatever reason, I can’t find the thread, it may have been the 2011 race, I don’t remember.
I haven’t considered this hurdles race carefully, but the results are sufficient to arouse suspicion and a hard look. Has anybody analyzed the quality of the video evidence, or done a review of the performance histories of the individual athletes in the race?
Soviet and German times were all ratified too. I'm with MJ on this one.
I’m not guaranteeing that the race was totally legit, but what are we trying to argue? It’s 2022, and camera technology has come far enough that I’m sure the race was reanalyzed frame-by-frame to make sure the time was real. While the wind could’ve been off, I don’t see any crazy wind in the video. It’s not like FloJo’s 100m record where the wind was so clearly noticeable.
Just like in the 400m hurdles, the sprint hurdles records will always be easier to break (relative to the flat events) since running a “perfect” race is more improbable.
1) intentionally altering the “film”, which is prob nothing more than a digital file
2) defective sensor/timing integration of the gun
3) improper correspondence of the finish camera to the gun
Eugene is not totally reliable. Same with Clermont, which may be even worse—esp when it’s Nike (Eugene) vs Adidas (Clermont).
Just my 2 cents
Meh, she ended up running 12.29 and 12.30 both into headwinds outside of Eugene after this race. Flip the wind and its not crazy far off. I was skeptical at first, but its probably legit. Really don't think someone is intentionally altering the film.
The on screen clock started moving the moment the start signal was broadcast and stopped automatically when she got to the finish. None of this is able to be manipulated. Once the start trigger is pressed all of it is done by processes outside of human control. The final time is associated by a person, but the beam break on the photo eye is not.
Soviet and German times were all ratified too. I'm with MJ on this one.
I’m not guaranteeing that the race was totally legit, but what are we trying to argue? It’s 2022, and camera technology has come far enough that I’m sure the race was reanalyzed frame-by-frame to make sure the time was real.
Track and Field News said there was a guy not associated with the broadcast who was filming the 100h semi and final on a pro video camera and he counted the frames and it matched up to the same times that the official timer had for each of the runners.
