Montogomery is the worlds fastest man...ever

Nice! I think that will take the 100m to another level. Maurice will try to retake the WR and it allows

others try and permanently keep it out of Maurice's grasp.

2003 will definetly be interesting, as the distance barriers are going to be chip at and now the sprint wars.

Good Luck Tim and MAURICE!

Vipam

Mo Greene is done. He will never get that WR back.

Did you see that Montgomery turned to track only after an injury kept him from pursuing football? I wonder what he would have been like on the football field. Did he play at all? I plead ignorance here.

I believe he(Mo) will come back strong

My pix goes to Lewis Francis. Maximum, the 19yr-old will break 100m record before China 2008 Olympic.

no disrespect to tim, but: 2.0 wind? barely legal .104 reaction time? it may be the fastest 100, but it isn't a performance equal to greene's 9.79.

The wind was definitely there and barely within tolerances but Montgomery's reaction time was of his own. A few hundreths of a second at the start was probably the difference. He just had the perfect start and blasted the hell out of the blocks.

Chambers will come back and beat Montgomery at the World Cup on Friday. He is hungry and hates coming second. He was pissed with his 9.87 which equalled Linford Christie's European record. I think Chambers will run 9.76 next year then Lewis Francis will take it to a new level by 2006. But I could be wrong!

Nope. Tim ain't running in Madrid.

And Oba still has the fastest 100 time ever at 9.69. Windy and high, sure, but still the fastest.

Yup.

In fact, Tim Mo's 9.78 only ties him with Carl Lewis for 2nd place on the all-time 100m all-conditions list.

Here are the legal times adjusted for wind.

Greene 9.79 (0.1) --> 9.80

Bailey 9.84 (0.7) --> 9.88

Tim M. 9.78 (2.0) --> 9.88

Lewis 9.86 (1.2) --> 9.92

Burrell 9.85 (1.2) --> 9.93

Care to explain how Burrell ran faster than Lewis, with the same wind, yet the adjusted times have Lewis faster?

I think that Mo will be back in form next season. He's still relatively young and knows what is necessary. There's a reason why he was so dominant for so long and I believe that this strength will help him one more time. I don't think that anyone else will want it as badly.

Monty

decand wrote:

Care to explain how Burrell ran faster than Lewis, with the same wind, yet the adjusted times have Lewis faster?

Because there is a subset of track 'fans' that, instead of taking results at face value, have the need to readjust results to feed whatever agenda they may have.

Exactly.

It is like saying the Rams was the best team in the NFL last year. However, NE still won the Superbowl. And that's the bottom line.

If we are justifying for wind lets justify for surface type.

Owens 10.3 (in sand)>= 9.25 on rubber

It's Leroy. Not Leon.

Here is how some of the top performances ever rank, with wind and altitude adjustments:

Maurice Greene 9.79 = 9.80

Maurice Greene 9.80 = 9.81

Maurice Greene 9.82 = 9.83

Bruny Surin 9.84 = 9.85

Tim Montgomery 9.78 = 9.87

Donovan Bailey 9.84 = 9.88

Obadele Thompson 9.69W = 9.91

Leroy Burrell 9.85 = 9.92

Carl Lewis 9.86 = 9.92

Maurice Greene 9.79W = 9.92

Carl Lewis 9.78W = 9.98

What about Levon? "Levon wears his war wound like a crown..."