100 meter dash: 1924 vs 2024.
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The Devil's Advocate
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This is true for damn near every sport. Put Lebron in those Wilt 2's and also give him a side gig breaking rocks and no coaching and no tv to watch basketball and the same things would happen
ReturnOfJudah
Veteran
Naw we gotta compare the fastest black person of that time to now
skyrunner1
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10.6 wont even get you on podium in high school track.. atleast in florida..
I think one way to look at it is that over 100 years, we haven't gotten even 1 second faster, which sounds somewhat disappointing -- or maybe somewhat impressive from the perspective of someone 100 years ago.10.6 wont even get you on podium in high school track.. atleast in florida..
Another way to look at it is, how fast or slow is 1 second, really? In a race, be it cars or people, tenths of a second looks like a lot of distance...even if conceptually a few tenths is the blink of an eye.
Finishing 0.81 seconds behind a sprinter today could be like 10 meters behind. That's massive when I think of it in those terms.
Cliffs ?
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
It seems not that much but 10.6 isn’t even a qualifying Olympic time.
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I wonder how low we can theoretically get the 100m record? Outside of a huge outlier in Bolt, the winning time for the 100m in the Olympics has consistently been around 9.8ish for 30+ years
Roger king
Superstar
The new athletes are stronger, faster, more physically built same thing in the NBA you cant compare level of athlete and competition to the 80s and the 90s.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
It will get lower
Undoubtedly so, but how much room is left? Are we talking 9.5? 9.25?
If a sprinter can reach 9.25 in a 100m, that athlete needs to be drug tested immediately, no questions asked.
Rev Leon Lonnie Love
damned mine eyes, DAMNED mine eyes!!
Are the clock counters from 100 years ago even accurate enough to claim those 10.6 scores were legit?