What a BOLT!!

[Pitbull]

Now who says Weed can't make you fly ?

They must be having some good shyt in Jam

 

[Just_Ice]

Wow...
Amazing... Beat everyone else by half a second!

 

[Fiekus]

And I got to see both...

 

[Ou grote]

19.30 seconds
FRIKKIN AMAZING

 

[Globetrotter]

Fantastic win by Bolt!
I've always enjoyed the sprint events and Usain clearly didn't disappoint. It's the first time a world record has been broken in both the 100m and 200m events at the same Olympics. He is only 21 years old so I'm sure he'll dominate these events for some time to come.

 

[Just_Ice]

19.30 seconds
FRIKKIN AMAZING

I feel sorry for Spearman or however you spell it.
He was so happy and then... disqualification.

 

[Ou grote]

Johnson admits that Bolt might one day shatter his own world 200m record.

Yep, it was today.

 

[chiskop]

HOLY FK !!!!

THAT IS INSANE !!!! - That is an average speed of even quicker than he ran the 100m's in

That would give him a time of 9.65 per 100m with exhaustion setting in and all that. This guys is a freak

The 200m WR is normally > 2(100m WR), though I'm not sure that the same guy has held those two records before.

The limiting factors in the sprints are the reaction time and the time to get to full speed - it the 200m you have longer time at full speed.

 

[Debbie]

Bolt's 200m bolt makes his speed 37,3km/hr!

 

[Debbie]

That makes him faster than a rabbit, a kangaroo, a grizzly bear, as well as a jackal.

He should rather be competing with greyhounds, who come in at 39,3km/hr to Bolt's 37,3km/hr.

Edit: damn, those comparisons are in miles per hour

 

[Picard]

That makes him faster than a rabbit, a kangaroo, a grizzly bear, as well as a jackal.

He should rather be competing with greyhounds, who come in at 39,3km/hr to Bolt's 37,3km/hr.

But remember the surfaces on which they run. Those animals have been clocked on gravel on loose rocks. Bolt's time was on tartan.

 

[Debbie]

But remember the surfaces on which they run. Those animals have been clocked on gravel on loose rocks. Bolt's time was on tartan.

suck more of the magic out picard

 

[chiskop]

But remember the surfaces on which they run. Those animals have been clocked on gravel on loose rocks. Bolt's time was on tartan.

suck more of the magic out picard

 

[AirWolf]

Usain Bolt is in a class of his own. Hope he breaks his own records in future.

 

[The Cosmos]

He made mincemeat of his competitors. I love it when WR's are broken.

 

[The Cosmos]

9.68 secs for the 100m... WOW!!!

I think it would've been faster had bolt not celebrated before he won, and concentrated till after the end of the line.

 

[JK8]

I think it would've been faster had bolt not celebrated before he won, and concentrated till after the end of the line.

How much faster would you guess?

 

[Kalvaer]

How much faster would you guess?

My wife just sent me this:

http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/09/03/arxiv-find-star-clusters-and-usain-bolt/

Seems a physicist actually went and did the calculations

 

[The Cosmos]

How much faster would you guess?

9.60.

 

[DJ...]

Wow - nice link, thanks Kalvaer.

For those of you who are capped:

Abstract: Since that very memorable day at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, a big question on every sports commentator’s mind has been “What would the 100 meter dash world record have been, had Usain Bolt not celebrated at the end of his race?” Glen Mills, Bolt’s coach suggested at a recent press conference that the time could have been 9.52 seconds or better. We revisit this question by measuring Bolt’s position as a function of time using footage of the run, and then extrapolate into the last two seconds based on two different assumptions. First, we conservatively assume that Bolt could have maintained Richard Thompson’s, the runner-up, acceleration during the end of the race. Second, based on the race development prior to the celebration, we assume that he could also have kept an acceleration of 0.5 m/s^2 higher than Thompson. In these two cases, we find that the new world record would have been 9.61 +/- 0.04 and 9.55 +/- 0.04 seconds, respectively, where the uncertainties denote 95% statistical errors.

Complete with this interesting photo reconstruction: