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Share I don’t think so. I analyzed Usain Bolt’s 10 meter splits from his 9.69 Beijing Olympic victory in a previous article. If you extrapolate Usain Bolt‘s last 10 meter segment, without the chest thumping, it would be fair to say he would have ran 0.84 or 0.85 seconds, making his 100m World Record 9.63 [...]
Share This guest post was written by Eric Grant of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation’s Map of Future Forces Affecting Education. Mind and Body The Olympic Games are the ultimate expression of all that we have learned about training our minds and bodies to maximize performance. Athletes spend years preparing to compete, and coaches and trainers take [...]
Share Who was the World’s Fastest Nation at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games? USA or Jamaica? Jamaica had introduced the Fastest Nation Jamaica T-shirt before the Olympic Games! Let’s take a look at the 7 sprint events that require starting blocks: Here are a few random thoughts that come to mind: USA owns the Men’s [...]
Share In the Corporate Olympics, who won the world’s fastest spikes? Like the Sports drinks and cola beverage industry, the sports shoes market is a highly competitive one, even more competitive than the Men’s 100 meters! My first recollection of the Corporate Olympics was in 1972. Lasse Viren won the 5000 and 10000 meter double, [...]
Share One has to feel sorry for Olympic favorite Blanka Vlasic. She hasn’t lost a high jump competition in 35 meets, and was heavily favored to win the Gold medal. After jumping cleanly through 2.03m, only Anna Chicherova and Tia Hellabaut cleared the same height, but with a total of 3 missed attempts each. The [...]
Share Usain Bolt won the 100 meters because of his speed endurance. I’ve said this all along, unless you are running a 40 yard dash or 50 meter sprint, sprinting the 100, 200, or 400 meters is all about speed endurance… reach your top speed, and maintain it. The winner of two athletes with the [...]
Share The 4 x 100m Relay was going to be a showdown between USA, Jamaica, and Great Britain. However, from my experience witnessed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, “Anything Goes” (the Irving Berlin song). In Semi-Final 1, USA, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa all dropped or missed the baton and DNF’ed. Trinidad won in 38.26, followed [...]
Share Let the Bragging Rights begin! Who is the World’s Fastest Nation: USA or Jamaica? Jamaica had introduced the Fastest Nation Jamaica T-shirt before the Olympic Games! Let’s take a look at the 7 sprint events that require starting blocks. We are halfway through the Track and Field program and it’s a very tight race [...]
Share Who said Michael Johnson’s 19.32 World Record would last 50 years? Try 12 years. Usain Bolt shocked the world today with his 200m Olympic Gold Medal and World Record with a 19.30 performance. This time, there was no show boating, no pre-celebration BEFORE the finish line. 8 races. 6 days. 2 Olympic Gold medals. [...]
Share As expected, Yelena Isinbaeva won the Gold medal in Beijing. What we didn’t know is by how much, and if she could break her own world record of 5.04m. Jennifer Stuczynski finished 2nd in 4.80m and Svetlana Feofanova 3rd in 4.75m Yelena (Elena) Isinbaeva didn’t disappoint us. The video of her 5.05 meter World [...]
Share Angelo Taylor won the Gold in 47.25, repeating his feat from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Kerron Clement finished 2nd in 47.98 and Bershawn Jackson 3rd in 48.06 Shades of Edwin Moses? 1976 – Gold 1980 – Did Not Compete (Olympic Boycott) 1984 – Gold 1988 – Bronze Angelo Taylor 2000 – Gold 2004 – [...]
Share In July, I wrote about Bicarbonate Loading Raises Ethical Issues As Performance-Enhancing Aid. Once again, every second article from the Olympics is about drugs or health benefits of Ergogenic aids. Otherwise, it’s the Michael Phelps show! Is popping a few Tums considered illegal before your 400 or 800 meters ? How about a mountain [...]
Share Shelly-Ann Fraser of Jamaica won the Olympic Gold in the Women’s 100 meters with a time of 10.78 seconds. What is unusual is they gave a TIE for second place. Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart both tied for second place in 10.98. Even at the nearest thousandth (0.001) of a second, they still could [...]
Share A week ago, I posted Olympic Results Tracking by iDashboards. So a busy week has gone by, and again I checked the medal standings (click on the above iDashboards image). I’ve been checking the results on a daily basis, but so far CANADA has won 0 medals. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Goose Egg. Nothing. After [...]
Share In the swimming events, the Beijing Men’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay was one of the most exciting relays. USA beat France 3:08.24 to 3:08.32. With all the lead changes, it was too close to call. Personally, I would have put Michael Phelps anchor to out psyche the opponents. YouTube and NBC are quickly [...]
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