He Has an Agenda wrote:
I find it amazing that everyone else is wrong, every statistician. Only middle distance is able to ascertain the correct splits in critical races, everyone else be damned. Now I don't have access to the splits for all the races mentioned, but I can watch the videos. Aouita is flying as he tries to catch Cram in their historic race. He was certainly under 13 seconds over that last 100 meters. I will agree that Aouita was closer than .09 with half a lap to go. He and Cram were close coming up on the bell, then Cram moved out early as he usually did when he was in top form. Aouita had unbelievable range. I never thought I would see it again until Alan Webb showed range almost as good. But so far Alan has proved to be a mental case.
I never said that everyone was wrong! Just pointed out that some books are inaccurate. If people quote some of these splits from some of these books then they will still be inaccurate.
Now, let me get this straight. You're saying that you're right (he ran under13) and the IAAF (13.3) is wrong? I think the words pot, kettle and black spring to mind.
If you're so bleeding clever then watch the Nice race and try to find where the 100m from home mark is? Good luck,.... because there isn't one.
If you had a brain then you'll see that the 2 marks seen are for 90m and 110m from home. This is the case on some tracks. Not all tracks have exactly the same markings. No possible way it was under 13 secs.
As for 11.8 which was originally claimed. Anyone with an ounce of understanding of the sport would have realised immediately at the time, that no one was going to run the fastest ever last 100m split (for a 1500m) at the end of a World Record! Duhh! The 11.8 is a well known myth.