Results:
1 K. KENTERIS GRE 19.85 CR
2 F. OBIKWELU POR 20.21 NR
3 Marlon DEVONISH GBR 20.24
4 C. MALCOLM GBR 20.30 SB
5 M. JEDRUSINSKI POL 20.31 PB
6 Marco TORRIERI ITA 20.68
7 Troy DOUGLAS NED 20.73
Now that is a great time. Should give the US sprinters a run for their money. Who said white guys can't sprint?
-Clay
now THAT is an "aided" oerformance if ever I saw one
Enhanced or not, that is a hell of a time for someone with so little pigmentation.
Nice to see Troy Douglas embracing his roots. I wonder if he ran in wooden shoes?
I believe that is the first man of non-african decent under 20 seconds.
Very nice guys, 19.85 WOW! Should be some more
outstanding performances! Please go to thread:
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instead of just reading it!!
Vipam
Pietro Mennea of Italy (19.72 I think) was white.
Yes Pietro was a white.
I did some checking. Pietro is still white.
As of 8/10/2002..... He still is a white.
Clay wrote:
Pietro Mennea of Italy (19.72 I think) was white.
So is Marcin Urbas.
Found a pretty good article on Konstadinos Kenteris (see link below). I am sure many people are suspicious of why he doesn't race on the Golden League circuit; well the article offers one explanation.
I for one really hope and believe that he is clean, after all winning the gold in a big championship does lead to multiple drug tests. Go Kenteris, the great white hope :)
http://www.athletics-ec-2002.com/aktuelles_var_en.php3?did=525
-Clay
This is the right link:
http://www.athletics-ec-2002.com/aktuelles_var_en.php3?did=525
is this that big of a shock? this guy won the last olympics.
i remember hearing he's a gym teacher or something in greece.
so, this isn't his forst big win.
It's amazing not because he's the OLympic champion but because his previous PR was 20.18
Olympic and World Champ... best 200 sprinter for the past 3 years now. I remember wathcing the Sydney 200 and thought "man he got lucky. Capel, MJ, Greene, Fredericks, Bolden... all not in the race or running crappy." But then he amazingly backed it up with last years WC win and now this. Kenteris is definitely legit.
trackhead, i'm sorry, i forgot the rule that says "all olympic 200s must be won in under 20.18 seconds."
like i said, he's the olympic champ. maybe a mediocre champ in comparicon to other years, but champ nonetheless.
i'm also sorry because i'm dumb enough to post a smart ass reply when i clearly have a reading disability.
sorry trackhead, if you would have read your post the way i read it the first time, you would have had a snippy remark too.
Trackhead, Kenderis' PR was not 20.18 before he ran that 19.85 his season's best was 20.18. But he ran 20.03 last year. He ran 20.09 at the Olympics into a head wind. He's also run 10.15 and 45.66. He is really legitimate. He's run under 20.18 about a half dozen times.
A good point, that I confused his season's best with a personal record. Nearly two tenths of a second is still an excellent PR. Secondly, I never said that a championship needed to be run in a certain time. I though his performance was impressive, and an excellent personal best.