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.
Top level performances often pull their competitors to PRs
- i.e. London Olympic final in 2012 or Bolt 9.58 in Berlin
Was the track measured at 200m accurately?
Wind gauges correct?
If the distance is correct and the wind is legal - it makes sense. I usually give performances the benefit of the doubt. I'm not skeptical like many of the negative nancy's on LR.
I did have similar suspiscions when I wached the event. But a likely explanation is the barely legal wind. How many Australian runners have competed in a race, at the peak of their fitness, with ideal competition pulling them along in an ideal, but wind legal tail wind of +1.7. The womens race had a +2.3 tailwind.
Can someone say how the winds are calculated in races. Is it the average during the race? the wind at the start? or the wind on the final straightaway? Depending on how the wind is calculated it might be decieving and been even more helpful than 1.7.
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.
A big difference here is that the wind gauge for flojo's 100 registered 0 (while simultaneously the long jump gauge registered something much higher), and here it registered +1.7. For the women in the Aus 200 (previous/next race) it registered +2.3. Hurdles an hour or two earlier registered +1.3 and during the long jump the highest wind reading was +1.9. This shows consistency accross muliple gauges and multiple events.