Did Usain Bolt really run a 4.22 40-yard dash at the Super Bowl?? It wasn't anywhere close to that on my stopwatch

Dude, this was laser timed. Your reaction time on the stop was slow. Nice try though. Next time at least upload a high res video and keep you stop thumb in the picture.

Hey Rojo!

The LetsRun Logo on the poster behind you from 2001 is pretty cool. Why not use that instead of this old one?

Although I do admit to liking the "current" logo due to it looking like it was created in 1993 in MS Paint..it's so bad that it's actually good!

I think you are correct.
Good catch.
Can you download it, and then use editing software frame counter and then slow it up so that it takes 4.22 sec to run the distance- and then it will preemptively answer a critique that the video you used was simply running too slow (because the speeded up version will look ridiculous and also sound strange).

Whoops, I meant “speed it up” not slow it up

ok, i'm new here but are you saying you don't think Bolt could run a 40 yard dash that fast?
isn't bolt like the fastest man in the world and wouldn't we expect bolt to be faster than the fastest NFL player?
i could agree with your premise that he didn't want to break the record so everyone wins and they might have adjusted his time (speed of video) so he exactly hits that time.
i would assume though bolt is faster than a football player, even a fast one.
thanks

You stopped absurdly late in the video. The finish is when the turf changes. It's a laser system so the way the 40 goes is someone pushes a button when he starts moving (your start is correct), but there is no delay on the finish.

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rojo wrote:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/02/did-usain-bolt-really-run-a-4-22-40-yard-dash-at-the-super-bowl-our-stopwatch-says-he-didnt-come-close/

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMVt57Wo7q0

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-he hasn't trained for a year
-he was wearing flats and sweatpants
-he had to slow down at the end

i haven't done any legit investigation but based only on intuition i think this is probably a sham time for publicity

Rojo - it was revealed a few hours after the news came out that he didn't actually run 4.22. It was a publicity stunt. and it worked brilliantly

Rojo,

"The odds of tying any time down to the exact one-hundredth of a second are very, very high."

Should be "... very, very low."

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new here wrote:

ok, i'm new here but are you saying you don't think Bolt could run a 40 yard dash that fast?

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stater of facts boiii wrote:

-he hasn't trained for a year
-he was wearing flats and sweatpants
-he had to slow down at the end

i haven't done any legit investigation but based only on intuition i think this is probably a sham time for publicity

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Now do a video where you stop the stopwatch at the right time.

Turned it off after 5 seconds when he started ranting about the media only produces fake news

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lasers dude wrote:

Dude, this was laser timed. Your reaction time on the stop was slow. Nice try though. Next time at least upload a high res video and keep you stop thumb in the picture.

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Hand egg is fake wrote:

I think you are correct.
Good catch.
Can you download it, and then use editing software frame counter and then slow it up so that it takes 4.22 sec to run the distance- and then it will preemptively answer a critique that the video you used was simply running too slow (because the speeded up version will look ridiculous and also sound strange).

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JRinaldi wrote:

Rojo - it was revealed a few hours after the news came out that he didn't actually run 4.22. It was a publicity stunt. and it worked brilliantly

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You can do frame by frame (this is how we proved the Moon Landing Hoax in the other thread).

I count first motion at 1:55.27 and finish at 2:00.03, in the LRC re-post. Editor's note: If you aren't good at math, that means he ran a 4.76)

But you'd want to analyze the original (and ensure the fps).

http://www.watchframebyframe.com/watch/yt/TMVt57Wo7q0

Regardless of what time was actually ran, it's funny that Letsrun is trying to discredit track and field.

Of course he didn't run 4.22. For those saying he was laser timed, if you watched the segment, they specifically said he was NOT officially timed (i.e. no automatic/laser timing machine was used). And realistically nobody probably even timed him. They just said 4.22 and for a few moments track was glorified.

The point of that stunt was to show that track and field athletes can sit on the couch eating potato chips and McDonalds for years and - without spikes or warming up - still run as fast as the fastest football players.

Instead Letsrun wants to prove football players are better at everything. So, there you have it. Track is inferior to football and we should all bow down to the superior athletes. Next time you see the football team dragging their feet in lane 1, ask how you can help. Run in lane 8 so you don't bother the real athletes that are clearly faster than you at every distance. That explains why Americans can't win distance races. All the real athletes are playing football. I wish the 6'7 320 pound lineman would run marathons. They'd finally put the Kenyans in their place. Probably even go sub 2 in the marathon. Thank you Letsrun for making this clear to me. I was confused why American running is garbage. After all, if Usain Bolt can't beat the NFL players, then nobody else has a chance.

The NFL combine measures splits (10y, 20y), so why don't they publish these too?

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Measurables:
40 Yard Dash: 4.32 seconds
40 Yard (MPH): 18.94 (MPH)
20 Yard Dash: 2.54 seconds
10 Yard Dash: 1.55 seconds

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