Imagine a 2.0 tailwind and a healthy Maurice at a Championship event. sub
9.7?
M
>From: "Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "T-and-F@Lists. Uoregon. Edu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: t-and-f: Sprint Respect
>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:58:43 -0700
>
>Does sprinting get any respect on this list any more ?? When Webb ran 3:54
>the list was abuzz for weeks .. Yet something even more amazing occurred
>yesterday at the World's and nary a whisper !!
>
>Yesterday Maurice Greene ran 9.82 - while hobbling across the finish line
>!!! Into a slight .02 breeze !!! His time was the 3rd fastest time ever,
>and
>the only person to run faster is himself !! Barring muscular betrayal he
>was
>headed for something in the mid 9.7 range .. Imagine he hobbled to a time
>the likes of Carl Lewis, Donovan Bailey, and Linford Christie (among
>others)
>could not approach at the Zenith's in full flight !!!
>
>Oh and there's more .. Tim Montgomery in second solidified his claim as the
>second fastest human of all time with his outstanding 9.85 (backing up his
>previous 9.84 in Oslo)
>
>And there's still more as Bernard Williams with his 9.94 gave the US a
>SWEEP
>in the event ... Not since the inaugural Worlds event in 1983 has there
>been
>a 100 meters sweep .. And there hasn't been a sweep in the 100 meters in
>the
>Olympics since 1912 !!!Almost 100 years ... Most likely the only sweep the
>US will experience in this meet and possibly the only sweep that will occur
>period ..
>
>But I guess no one is interested in any of this .. Actually maybe I made
>mistake .. Maybe the 100 meters is NOT a track and field event .. :o(
>
>Conway Hill
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>
>
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