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will there EVER be a 100m dash time less than 9.00?
Posted on 8/17/09 at 9:21 am
Posted on 8/17/09 at 9:21 am
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Posted on 8/17/09 at 9:24 am to lsu xman
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Tyrail Prior.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 9:25 am to rocket31
Not in my lifetime.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 9:42 am to rocket31
There was a study a few years ago explaining how the human body was only capable of throwing a baseball so hard. (I forget how fast). I'm sure the human body has a limit on the 100M as well. 9 flat might be it.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 10:17 am to Hot Carl
will there ever be a nba player that is 8' tall?
will there ever be an offensive lineman in nfl that weighs 480?
will there ever be an offensive lineman in nfl that weighs 480?
Posted on 8/17/09 at 10:29 am to rocket31
There's idiots on Saints Report who think that Bolt can go under 4.00 in the 40...
Posted on 8/17/09 at 11:43 am to Sophandros
No. We will not see a human run 100 meters faster than 9.0 ever.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 11:45 am to MJRuffalo
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No. We will not see a human run 100 meters faster than 9.0 ever.
That's an awfully long time to be so sure.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 11:47 am to BuckeyeFan87
There are physiological laws of the human body. Without serious genetic enhancement, we will never see this.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 11:49 am to MJRuffalo
quote:Or gradual evolutionary changes possibly. Because he said 'ever' not soon.
There are physiological laws of the human body. Without serious genetic enhancement, we will never see this.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 11:51 am to MrKennedy
There are certain things that are not going to change. Like the refractory period between cardiac contractions, maximum speed of nerve impulses, etc.. These are just laws of physics when you come down to it. So I can add the caveat that no humn will run faster than 9.0 on Earth. Though that really was understood and did not need to be said.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 11:56 am to MJRuffalo
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There are certain things that are not going to change. Like the refractory period between cardiac contractions, maximum speed of nerve impulses, etc.. These are just laws of physics when you come down to it. So I can add the caveat that no humn will run faster than 9.0 on Earth. Though that really was understood and did not need to be said.
I'm pretty sure people said the same thing about the 4 min mile and the 10.0 100 m.
get some perspective
Posted on 8/17/09 at 12:56 pm to LSUgrasshopper
That's totally different. Look at how the slope has flattened out with regards to record times in recent years.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 12:59 pm to Sophandros
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That's totally different. Look at how the slope has flattened out with regards to record times in recent years.
Either the track in Berlin was extremely fast, or Tyson Gay got a hold of some goodness.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 1:22 pm to rocket31
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will there EVER be a 100m dash time less than 9.00
With the right mix of drugs anything is possible.
This post was edited on 8/17/09 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 8/17/09 at 2:11 pm to cwill
The one thing that I noticed is that athletes must be taking much smaller doses of HGH or steroids now than in the '80s. Ben Johnson ran a 9.79 in the 1988 Olympics and that would have been enough to win for a very long time.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 2:17 pm to MJRuffalo
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Without serious genetic enhancement, we will never see this.
well, we already see elite athletes enhance their natural abilities with all types of hormones and chemicals. While i don't i'll see a sub 9.00 in my lifetime, i wouldn't say it will never happen. New and better drugs plus evolving track surfaces, shoes, etc make the ceiling of a sprinter's speed artifically high, imo.
This post was edited on 8/17/09 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 8/17/09 at 3:14 pm to Sophandros
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Look at how the slope has flattened out with regards to record times in recent years.
plot it by year and it's not so flat.
~.5 sec every 40 years, with lots of broken records (10) since 91.
Posted on 8/17/09 at 3:17 pm to LSUgrasshopper
We're not going to see sub 9 in our lifetimes, unless we decide to allow doping, wind assistance, and other "modifications"...
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