Michael Johnsons 19.32 WR

Even if you assume that MJ was a doper, no modern day 200 runner has a chance in hell of breaking it -- even with everything you could throw at him. Maybe Usain if he stayed healthy and ran the 100m, too.

The fact is, when else are you going to have a 10.0 100m runner training like a 600m runner?

But the bulls mam the bulls!!!! And Jordan was clean!

trackhead wrote:

Even if you assume that MJ was a doper, no modern day 200 runner has a chance in hell of breaking it -- even with everything you could throw at him. Maybe Usain if he stayed healthy and ran the 100m, too.

The fact is, when else are you going to have a 10.0 100m runner training like a 600m runner?

what's the deal with this usain kid? is he for real? - or is he one of these injury prone talents that promise to disappoint? cause i gotta think if this kid is running as fast as he is now, a steady improvement has gotta get him close to that 19.32.

I'll say it right now. Usain Bolt will NOT run faster than 19.32. His best chance of a WR is in the 400, and that's still pretty slim. He's an incredible talent though, and I think he could run 19.6 in the 200, which would make him the second-fastest ever.

It's all in the form!!!

Can that Wariner kid do it?

Not while everyone on this board is saying that he should run the 800 instead...

I will never, never forget the devastating Blonde washing the car in that movie.

Oh my...

Clyde Hart seems to think that Wariner can run sub-20 for 200, so at the next Olympics, he could be a medalist in 200 & 400. Wariner has already taken out MJ's Baylor record in 400, so I'm guessing that eventually takes out the 400 WR (maybe by quite a bit if he gets the 200 speed that Hart thinks he can get), but I can't see him coming close to 19.32.

A couple of things to consider:

(1) MJ had a huge anatomical advantage over everyone else with that "wrong" running style that gave him tremendous turnover. Lots of others have tried this without much success.

(2) MJ ran 10.03 for 100m, but every time he tried to do training as a pure sprinter he got injured (remember the 150m against Donovan). Thus his POTENTIAL 100 speed, if he had been able to train without getting injured, was probably a lot faster than what he actually did at 100, maybe even 9.8x range. Now, if you take a legitimate 9.8 guy with enough strength (Shawn Crawford) and put him on Clyde Hart's program, you have someone who might be able to challenge 19.32. But Shawn's interested in being a 100/200 guy, not a 200/400 guy, and let's face it, the real money's in the 100.

"I doubt few here would say the pious Jonathan Edwards is a cheater."

Does this mean the same thing as, "I am sure many here would say the pioud Jonathan Edwards is a cheater"?

Edwards may be clean, but piety doesn't automatically spell cleanliness if people like Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and others are taken into consideration.

but of course, I never considered Jim Baker or Jimmy Swaggert pious.