19.32

[dittohead84]

Originally Posted by jiveturkish

I was there in 1996. That 200m was ridiculous. Johnson chopped .34 off his own WR and 19.6 is still enough to earn a gold medal.

If Bolt is going to break it, he won't have the opportunity to showboat. He'll need to bust his ass.

Well said, he didnt let up all the way. Best bend I've ever seen him run, and he's only turning 22 tomorrow

[z_zen]

Originally Posted by Cois

That works out to 9.66 for each 100 meters, or faster than anyone's ever done the 100 meters, including Usain Bolt, and Michael Johnson did this over twice the distance and through a turn. After taking 10.12 seconds for the first hundred he blazed the next hundred in 9.2 seconds.

Usain took it easy while setting his mark of 9.69 in the 100 but he is going to have to work to get close to 19.32, his personal best in the 200 so far is 19.67.

One gets a running start for the second part of the race, instead of accelerating from 0. So your contention that no one's run 9.66 with a running start is false obviously.

[paulmacsax]

BBC SPORT | Olympics | Athletics | Video - Johnson wowed by 'Superman II'

Michael Johnson's reaction to Bolt breaking his world record

[Cois]

Originally Posted by z_zen

One gets a running start for the second part of the race, instead of accelerating from 0. So your contention that no one's run 9.66 with a running start is false obviously.

That was not my contention. There are two people in the world who averaged faster per 100M doing the 200M than Usain's current 100M record: Johnson and now Usain himself.

I was putting into perspective how fast a 19.34 or now a 19.30 is. Johnson's 1996 average per 100M was faster than the 2008 100M WR. An impressive accomplishment considering no one had ever matched that until Usain ran his 200 today.

People have managed faster times for the 100 with a running start. Bob Hayes is said to have run under 9 seconds for his leg in the 4x100 relay in 1964. YouTube - USA 4 x 100m relay 1964 Tokyo Olympics World Record

Y'all need to just relax and appreciate things instead of being obsessed with trying to "own" people on the internet.

[cogitoergosum]

Into a headwind, that it crazy.

[Stuey'sRevenge]

When is the Men's 4 X 100 relays?

[messi_is_imba]

The official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games
Fri Aug 22 22:10 Men's 4 x 100m Relay Final National Stadium ScheduledScheduled