Pretty fast time in the prelims.. how fast can he go?
Pretty fast time in the prelims.. how fast can he go?
He did have a +4.3 following wind while a lot of the other heats had head winds. Every guy in his heat qualified, the irish guy in last ran 20.4.
The wind probably cut his time by .2-.3 seconds.
Now it makes sense.. but it looked like he beat everyone else by a good margin, no?
What is wind-aid the limit for WR?
2.0
Keep in mind that some sprinters will run blazing times in the heats because they can recover quickly. Carl Lewis used to do this, occasionally only improving a few hundreths of a second in the final.