Re: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-16 Thread WillyBeaman
The conversion is .24, and the winds and weather have improved dramatically. Your assessment is fair, but if you would have seen the workout in person, and heard all of their times, you would have written a story also. I am like you though, I do not report practice times, they are laterally mea

RE: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-15 Thread malmo
Very good point. > -Original Message- > From: P.F.Talbot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:45 PM > To: malmo > Cc: Track list > Subject: RE: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney > > > IT DOESN'T HAVE TO! It just has to reac

Re: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-15 Thread Ed & Dana Parrot
> In a message dated 9/15/00 7:19:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > << Actually, the standard I have heard is .24. As an official, I consider > myself relatively good at seeing the smoke and hitting my stopwatch, and .24 > has usually been just about right. >> > > Sorry, but if you're REALLY goo

RE: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-15 Thread P.F.Talbot
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO! It just has to react equally slow to both the start and the finish. On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, malmo wrote: > > THAT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. The human body simply cannot react that fast! > > malmo!TM > Another self-anointed "Award-Winning" Pundit for the Sydney2000TM Olympics

RE: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-15 Thread malmo
THAT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. The human body simply cannot react that fast! malmo!TM Another self-anointed "Award-Winning" Pundit for the Sydney2000TM Olympics > Murphy is right .. If you start the watch when you actually see the smoke > from the gun .. And then stop it when you actually see t

Re: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-15 Thread Michael Rohl
one word explains it all Gamesmanship! Good Training, Michael Rohl

Re: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-15 Thread Conway
Walt Murphy wrote: > Sorry, but if you're REALLY good (and it's not that hard to do), you'll be > within 1 or 2 one-hundredths of a second of the official time. It's amazing > what you can do when money's on the line. I've been in many a contest to see > who could come closest to the actual auto-

Re: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-15 Thread Dan Kaplan
--- Ed & Dana Parrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, the standard I have heard is .24. As an official, I consider > myself relatively good at seeing the smoke and hitting my stopwatch, and > .24 has usually been just about right. Isn't it .24 for 200m (from across the track) and .14 for 1

Re: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-15 Thread WMurphy25
In a message dated 9/15/00 7:19:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Actually, the standard I have heard is .24. As an official, I consider myself relatively good at seeing the smoke and hitting my stopwatch, and .24 has usually been just about right. >> Sorry, but if you're REALLY good (and

Re: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-15 Thread Conway
> --- Ed & Dana Parrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, the standard I have heard is .24. As an official, I consider > > myself relatively good at seeing the smoke and hitting my stopwatch, and > > .24 has usually been just about right. > > Isn't it .24 for 200m (from across the track)

Re: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-15 Thread Ed & Dana Parrot
> RT wrote: > > >Sanity check time: > >1) "not recorded electronically" means hand time to me. Hand times are > >rounded up to the next 10th, or 9.8. > >2) the standard adjustment for comparison used to be what, .14? > >That would make it equivalent to a 9.94 electronic. > >3) extremely unlikely

Re: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-14 Thread Kurt Bray
RT wrote: >Sanity check time: >1) "not recorded electronically" means hand time to me. Hand times are >rounded up to the next 10th, or 9.8. >2) the standard adjustment for comparison used to be what, .14? >That would make it equivalent to a 9.94 electronic. >3) extremely unlikely to have a wind

Re: t-and-f: Greene on fire in Sydney

2000-09-14 Thread R.T.
>Maurice Greene has unofficially broken his 100m world record, after a >sensational training session at Sydney's Olympic Stadium. >The US sprinter clocked 9.78secs, 0.1secs inside his own world mark on just >his fifth hard sprint of the afternoon. >The time for his training run was not recorded e