South Africa's Akani Simbine blitzes 9.93 and 19.95!! Is 7th man in history to go sub-10 and sub-20 on same day.

Something 'special' in that South African water....

"A whole lot more in the tank"

For sure, lol. Gotta love those fuel additives. Don't forget about Magakwe, the first sub-10 South African, whose suspension just ended.

There's that magical +2.0 wind reading again, don't believe it.

And look at the wind buffeting the flag in the 200m--straight down the back straight, and strong. Looked like a wind tunnel. That plus the altitude puts him at who knows what, maybe 20.20 (MAYBE), which would still be a very excellent early-season time.

Simbine has been developing and it is not unusual for South Africans to put up some good early season times at their altitude-assisted tracks (Pretoria = 4393' elevation), but all things being equal, this was not a true 9.93.

In fact, I would say that it was worth maybe mid-10.0x-10.10...MAYBE.

Blood dEPOr wrote:

Something 'special' in that South African water....

It's called "4400 ft elevation," dipshit.

In the 200, from the banners it appears the wind is against them.

henricho bruintjies, akani simbine, magakwe, and van niekerk have all broken 10 in the past three years. no South Africans had ever broken ten before.

Simbine has done it a bunch of times, including a 9.89, most of them outside South Africa. There's definitely something going on in South Africa and Southern Africa, a region with very little success in the sprints now producing world beaters, and already a few drug scandals along the way.

So, who are the other 6 who ran sub 10 and sub 20 in the same day?

It's rare for someone to run both at a high level in the same day.

They are not on the same day at major championships.

You noticed that also. Bottom line is these guys are looking good early on, no need to try and put anymore into than that.

What world beaters?

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Blood dEPOr wrote:

Something 'special' in that South African water....

It's called "4400 ft elevation," dipshit.

Sure. That's the answer.

Nothing to see here. Carry on.

Star wrote:

So, who are the other 6 who ran sub 10 and sub 20 in the same day?

It's rare for someone to run both at a high level in the same day.

They are not on the same day at major championships.

Calvin Smith

Femi Ogunode

Justin Gatlin

Walter Dix

Shawn Crawford

Ato Bolden (five times)

Sprintgeezer wrote:.... In fact, I would say that it was worth maybe mid-10.0x-10.10...MAYBE.

LOOOLLL!!! You're sounding like... you know who....

Blood dEPOr wrote:

Sure. That's the answer.

Nothing to see here. Carry on.

At sea level with no wind at his back, it's a 10.05 and around 20.10 double. It's been done before.

The names not on that list are interesting.

Double gold medalists like Carl Lewis, Maurice Greene and Usain Bolt.

They never really would run both events at an invitational.

Calvin Smith has a 19.99 PR at Zurich, so that was the meet for him.

Bolden was a prolific doubler so I would have guessed him for the list.

But has it been done by South Africans this early in a season?

Why are we surprised !! Take a look at their RIO performances . Wayde running a WR from an outler lane. For the record, MJohnson was doped when he ran that record.

True, 4393ft is the base elevation other parts of Pretoria are probably higher. The rugby ball, soccer ball, cricket ball all travel further in Pretoria. I don't take sprint times recorded there seriously and the weather is always great.

What is the out of competition testing like in SA? The place is pretty lawless for everything else (rape capital, carjacking capital, corrupt leaders, no borders, aids).

South Africans only seem to compete locally at altitude tracks. Look at their world ranked times in the 100-400-hurdle events, at open, U20 and u18 levels - they're all done at altitude tracks.

Being in the Southern Hemisphere, it's the end of summer there and their main season.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Star wrote:

So, who are the other 6 who ran sub 10 and sub 20 in the same day?

It's rare for someone to run both at a high level in the same day.

They are not on the same day at major championships.

Calvin Smith

Femi Ogunode

Justin Gatlin

Walter Dix

Shawn Crawford

Ato Bolden (five times)

andre de grasse at NCAA's...but wind aided