Sprint Guys Why Was the Usain Bolt 200 Final So Slow???

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7 years ago 08/19/2016 4:06pm EDT

re: GJK

GJK wrote:
Best explanation I read was the rain and humidity slowing down all the bodies. Think of trying to throw or hit something in denser air. The conditions did not allow for fast times because of the air density and rain.

I heard that someone in the call room spiked the 200 meter finalists pre race drinks with some sort of muscle relaxant formula leading up to the beginning of their departure from the starting blocks.

7 years ago 08/19/2016 4:07pm EDT

re: wejo

No Gatlin in the final to get everyone keyed up.

7 years ago 08/19/2016 4:14pm EDT

re: Sleepy

The wind was .5 BUT it's also only measured for 10 seconds once the athletes enter the straight. There was head wind around the curve as it was a quartering wind. That's much of it. Cooler temps also reduce times slightly and there was a denser air pressure. Retry much the reason all times slower.

7 years ago 08/19/2016 4:21pm EDT

re: The easy answer

The easy answer wrote:
The wind was .5 BUT it's also only measured for 10 seconds once the athletes enter the straight. There was head wind around the curve as it was a quartering wind. That's much of it. Cooler temps also reduce times slightly and there was a denser air pressure. Retry much the reason all times slower.

Reason for the slow times may be because of super acceleration the finalists had coming out of the starting blocks.. The runners ran through some sort of time warp. Taking them back in time a couple tenths of a second. Think of the star ship enterprise going through a black hole.. kind of the same idea

7 years ago 08/19/2016 4:32pm EDT

re: Beam me up

Beam me up wrote:
The easy answer wrote:
The wind was .5 BUT it's also only measured for 10 seconds once the athletes enter the straight. There was head wind around the curve as it was a quartering wind. That's much of it. Cooler temps also reduce times slightly and there was a denser air pressure. Retry much the reason all times slower.
Reason for the slow times may be because of super acceleration the finalists had coming out of the starting blocks.. The runners ran through some sort of time warp. Taking them back in time a couple tenths of a second. Think of the star ship enterprise going through a black hole.. kind of the same idea

This is the most logical answer thus far

7 years ago 08/19/2016 7:53pm EDT

re: TAA

TAA wrote:
He had an injury scare for a bit in June/ early July. Hurt his training.

Makes no sense. How would he have run 19.78 and won the semi the day before?

Can't be the track, a WR was set in the M 400m and the W 100m was historically fast.

Must have been the water or the mild wind. DeGrasse ran 20.01 and had run 19.80 for an NR the day before. Conditions were slow. That race and those times turned back the clock to the '84 Olympics era, when sub-20 was considered God-like.