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Originally Posted by Crono7
I read about this
after about the 70 meter mark(i think its 70, i can be wrong), athletes are at top speed,
they can only get slower, and they do, (again its a slow deceleration)
thats why what ben johnson did is so incredible
you would expect the 200 meter time to be lower then the 100 meter time doubled
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No you wouldn't. Not only do you have to accelerate from 0 twice, you also have to react to the start gun twice. That's why 200M time has always been faster than double of 100M time.