Mexico 68 Olympic 100m Final

[druidofluhn]

The world record of 9.9 was badly timed (Jim Hines set it) and turned out to be 10.03. And Hines' time in the final was 9.95s not 9.89s.

[sciencestudent342]

lol that time stood for a looooooongg time and it took carl lewis chasing a strongly druged up ben johnson (not that carl was clean but had the sense not to overload as to get caught lol) to beat that time.

[TheEctomorph]

@sciencestudent342 For your information, Jim Hines's world record [9.95A] was broken by the excellent CALVIN SMITH - not Carl Lewis. In July 1983 - a month or so before the inaugural World Athletics Championships were held in Helsinki - Smithy ran the 100 in 9.93 seconds at high altitude in Colorado.

You need to brush up on your knowledge of the history of world-class sprinting, Mr "Sciencestudent". You also need to learn some manners - judging by the abusive and offensive

[TheEctomorph]

@sciencestudent342 [Continuing on from my previous post about Jim Hines' world record which was broken by Calvin Smith]: remarks that you have made (about a personal friend of mine) on a 'You Tube' discussion board, of late.

Have a nice day ... sir.

[sciencestudent342]

@TheEctomorph get a life ecto...go write a book about it.. just go away....go play with ruth

[randrianabel]

@palermo366

Misoatra be(thank you).....

[TheTzdope]

1968 usa track team: best of all-time!!!

[dovespin1]

@TheTzdope absolutely! imagine their times if they ran today on modern tracks. wow!

[TheEctomorph]

@dovespin1 I can see your point, sir -  modern athletics tracks are unquestionably somewhat 'faster' (i.e conducive to sprinting) than the tracks which were available to Jim Hines, Charlie Greene, Bob Hayes, Tommie Smith and the other great sprinters of the 1960s. That said, it should not be forgotten that the 1968 Olympic Games were held at high altitude in Mexico city ... and therefore the sprinters who competed at those Olympics were not really at a disadvantage (in comparison to their

[TheEctomorph]

@dovespin1 [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about the benefits - for sprinters - of competing at high altitude]: modern-day counterparts) in terms of the opportunities that they had to produce fast times. I would even go so far as to speculate that Usain Bolt would (probably) be capable of running the 100 metres in around 9.65 seconds on that 'slow' old-fashioned track in Mexico city - IF if were possible to transport him back in time to the 1968 Olympics, that is!!

[josemourin]

@TheEctomorph If Usain Bolt will be back in the 60s, he wouldn't even hit 10s. The training from then and now is total different. So buzz off will ya?

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin Sir: I am entitled to comment, am i not?

Oh, and no offence ... but I think that you seriously underestimate the talent of the world's current number 1 sprinter - the 6 foot 5" Jamaican phenonemenon, Usain Bolt.  In the considered opinion of many (perhaps even MOST) knowledgeable athletics pundits and statisticians, the 'lightning Bolt' is the greatest and most naturally gifted sprinter in the entire history of the sport. Moreover, there are plenty of international athletes

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Usain Bolt]: (both past and present) who also believe that the big man is, in all probability, the number 1 sprinter of all time. I know for a fact that Michael Johnson has enormous respect for Usain Bolt's sprinting talent ... indeed, Mr Johnson has gone on record has saying that he thinks that the 6 foot 5" Jamaican speedster is potentially capable of breaking the world record for the 400 metres (which currently stands at 43.18

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Usain Bolt]: seconds, and is held by Johnson himself). If the 'lightning Bolt' does indeed go on to become the fastest quarter miler (as well as the fastest 100/200 metres sprinter) on God's Earth, then perhaps even you will finally accept that he is one of the greatest athletes (indeed one of the greatest competitors in ANY sport) of all time.

Have a nice day, sir.

[josemourin]

@TheEctomorph Hey, I know Bolt is fast NOW. You can't compare him with the past athletes, past athletes are not having the right techniques and training and proper diet. You can never say USAIN BOLT is the "greatest" competitors in "ANY" sport!!!!! Just say it in "athletics", I would say some of the greatest athletes:- Hicham El Gueroujj, Sebastian Coe, Haile Gabreselassie, Patrick Makau Musyoki, Emil Zátopek, Paavo Nurmi, Lasse Virén, Hannes Kolehmainen, Ville Ritola, David Rudisha and

[josemourin]

@TheEctomorph [Continuing on my previous post] Daniel Komen, Kenenisa Bekele, Said Aouita, Michael Johnson, Kirani James, Steve Cram, Steve Ovett, Paul Tergat and "Mo" Farah. I bet some/most of the athletes I just mention, you never heard of aite? Mid-distance ~> Long-distance runners are the one suppose to be meant "greatest" athelete of all-time/mean-time. F.Y.I, 400m is the toughest race among every other events because of mixed speed, endurance and strength..

[josemourin]

@TheEctomorph 1 more thing, Carl Lewis the legend of athletics is 100x better than USAIN BOLT. *I don't believe in god, sorry.*

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin Sir: I certainly do not have a problem (or "issue", as they tend to say in these days of political correctness) with the fact that you have no belief in God. As a matter of fact, I am not a religious man myself; when I described Usain Bolt as "the fastest human being on God's Earth" I was using the word 'God' in a very loose - perhaps metaphorical - sense.

As regards your views on the 6 foot 5" Jamaican speedster, it is my honest belief that you underestimate the magnitude of

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: the 'lighning Bolt's' natural athletic talent. You have expressed the view that Carl Lewis, the renowned American sprinter and long jumper of the 1980's and 90's, was a superior athlete to the big Jamaican. You are, of course, perfectly entitled to hold that opinion, but personally I have a different point of view. Let us examine some of the FACTS.  Carl Lewis's personal best time (for the 100 metres) dash is 9.86. He

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: set that time on 25th August 1991, at the IAAF World Championships in Tokyo. Lewis's personal best was, of course, also the world record at the time, and remained so for the next three years (until July 1994, to be precise). Usain Bolt, who has only just turned 25 years of age, currently has a personal best of 9.58 seconds - an incredible time which (let me be frankly honest) is more than marginally superior to Lewis's

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: PB of 9.86. Admittedly, the track in Berlin, Germany, on which Bolt set his mind-bending world record, was somewhat faster than the track in Tokyo, Japan - where (18 years earlier), Lewis had broken his fellow American Leroy Burrell's world record of 9.88. However, it has to be said that the '91 Tokyo track was certainly pretty fast. Let us say - for the sake of argument - that the great Carl Lewis's lifetime

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Usain Bolt]: personal best performance in the 100 metres sprint (9.86 secs) is worth a time of 9.81 on a super-fast, Mondo track - such as the one in Berlin (on which Usain Bolt set the current world mark of 9.58, some two-and-a-bit years ago). There is still a CONSIDERABLE difference in ability between a man who (at his best) can run the 100m in 9.58 secs and one who (at his own best) can run it in 9.81. In percentage terms, Lewis's

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: world record - set twenty years ago - was 2.39% slower than Bolt's current world mark of 9.58. In terms of athletic performance, a differential of 2.39% is not inconsiderable. Let us also bear in mind the fact that, in a head-to-head contest between a man who can sprint 100 metres in 9.58 and one who can sprint the same distance in 9.81, the faster man would win by a distance of around 2.44 metres (give or take 5cm)

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: A winning margin of 2.44 metres may not be very much in a 1500m race (or even an 800m one), but in a sprint contest it is considerable - particularly if the distance of the race is only 100m.

During the course of Carl Lewis's long and distinguished career as an international athlete, he won a sackful of Gold medals at global championships - i.e. the Olympics and the 'Worlds'. At the present stage in Usain Bolt's

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: athletics career, he has won considerably fewer Gold medals (in global championships) than his illustrious predecessor, Mr Lewis. But PLEASE refrain from making a definite judgement as to exactly how great an athlete the 6 foot 5" Jamaican speedster is until his illustrious career in the sport has come to an end. It may well be that the big man decides - after next year's Olympic Games in London have taken place -

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: to continue competing in the sport at the highest level for another 5 years ... or more. (As I said earlier in this 'post', he is only 25 years of age at the current time; he doesn't turn 26 until August 2012 - when the London Olympics will be in progress.)

Finally, I would just like to make the point that the 'lightning Bolt' has ALREADY set 5 individual world records during the course of his career.

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: His first world record (9.72) was set in New York city in the summer of 2008. Since that time, he has gone on to break his own 100 metres world mark on two occasions. What is more, at the Beijing Olympic Games - which took place in August '08 - he broke Michael Johnson's 200 metres world record of 19.32 ( a time which, as you know, had remained unbeaten for well over a decade. The following year (2009), this

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt] extraordinarily fast sprinter managed - against the odds - to break his own outstanding world record (for the longer sprint distance). In doing so, he became the first man in history to sprint 200 metres in under 19.20 seconds - a remarkable achievement. Two years on, he remains the only athlete ever to have run the 200 in under 19.20.

When Carl Lewis of the United States of America was 25 (the same age as

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: the 'lightning Bolt' is now, he had not made anywhere near as big an impact (in the record books) as the big man from Jamaica has done. Mr Lewis had, of course, been a member of the U.S.A. (4 x 100m) relay team which set a world record of 37.83 at the inaugural World Athletics Championships in 1983. However, by the time he reached 25 years of age - three years later, in the summer of '86 - he still did not have any

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt] individual world records under his belt, as it were. In fact, it wasn't until he had hit 30 years of age - in the summer of 1991 - that he managed to set his first world record in an individual event. On 25th August of that year, Mr Lewis knocked 0.02 seconds off Leroy Burrell's world mark - which had been set at the U.S. World Championship trials, just a couple of months previously. Lewis's world record

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: of 9.86 seconds (which, surprisingly, was destined to be the last - as well as the first - individual world record which he set during the course of his lengthy and distinguished career on the track and in the field) remained unbeaten for three years.

In July of 1994, Lewis's compatriot Leroy Burrell managed to grab the 100m world record back from the renowned sprinting and long jumping champion, when he won an

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: international race in Switzerland, in a time of 9.85 secs.

Frederick Carlton Lewis - who won no less than 9 Olympic Gold medals during the course of his long and glittering career as a world class sprinter and long jumper rolled into one, as it were - was a great athlete, without a shadow of a doubt. Usain Bolt was - and indeed IS - a great athlete too. History will eventually decide which of those two

[TheEctomorph]

@josemourin [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: gifted men was the greater athlete ...... but one suspects that we will have to wait some considerable time - like several years - before history delivers its verdict.

Have a nice day, sir.

[josemourin]

@TheEctomorph You've skipped all the mid N long-distance athletes I mention. Don't forget Usain Bolt is in the present and not the past. You can never compare with the past as the past they don't have internet to lookup for new technique, skills, diet etc.. So if you're gonna continue this arguement, I would say there will be someone else faster than BOLT in the future. =]. 100m + 200m event champion can't be included as "greatest" athlete and don't missed out my other athelete I mentioned.

[puljacina]

@TheEctomorph what a dumb comment with bolt runnin 9.65 in the 60's.. idiot he wouldnt even touch a sub 9.7 in the 80's

[TheEctomorph]

@puljacina Look you muppet: We will never know how fast Usain Bolt could have run the 100 metres on one of those old-fashioned cinder tracks that great sprinters of the 1950's and 60's  - like Bobby Morrow, Armin Hary and Bob Hayes - had to run on. (Unless, of course, time travel becomes a reality in the near future.)

As for your claim that the 6 foot 5" Jamaican speedster would have been incapable of running the 100 in under 9.80 seconds on an athletics track of the 1980's (such as the

[TheEctomorph]

@puljacina [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Mr Usain Bolt]: one in Seoul, that was used for the Olympic Games in '88), well that is just plain stupid, so it is. The track on which Ben Johnson - the "juiced up" Canadian speedster of the 1980s - ran 100 metres in 9.79 was almost as fast as the track which was used for this year's World Championships, in Daegu.

Mister, you are an asshole. From now onwards, I am not even going to bother reading your stupid, ill-informed and

[TheEctomorph]

@puljacina [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Usain Bolt]: provocative comments on this You Tube board - let alone respond to them.

[panthers28ish]

one of the best race of ALL TIME..and u nazi queer..your offically called "GAY"

[EPizits]

@panthers28ish That nazi faggot is just trying to piss you off. Don't let him get to you.

[Palermo366]

Magnificent performance of the Malagasy Ravelomanantsoa : 8th during this big final. Never a Malagasy since carried achieved such a performance. Ravelomanantsoa, hero for ever in Madagascar !

[6400az]

@Palermo366

I'm totally not kidding here. Din'dt this guy your reffering to,later change his name ( first and middle) to Joe Luie? I remember him actually winning a race and the announcer aksed him how to pronounce his name. He responded Joe Louie Ravelomanatsoa.

[FatPigAnnWilson]

Those are some SERIOUSLY fast negros

[altfactor]

This appears to be the BBC telecast, and the audio quality is consistent with many live-via-satellite TV broadcasts of the late 1960's.

Audio was sacrificed in favor of video quality in those early satellite transmissions.

BTW, host country Mexico only provided black-and-white video of the 1968 Olympics. The BBC, ABC (U.S.) and NHK (Japan) each sent several colo(u)r mobile units (or outside broadcast trucks) to Mexico City which became a second "pool" feed for those countries with colo(u)r TV.

[boo2099]

@altfactor wrong... Mexico offered a total color broadcast

[use2slam2]

2Baker40: son i am seriously impressed AND i mean SERIOUSLY. hardly anybody knows about or who the hell (DR. Delano Meriwether) is. so nice to get feedback from an informed person. yeah Meriwether if we go with the(might have)been the all time fastest, this guy was crazy fast considering he didn't take up sprinting til his later 20's, funny shit that he mentioned to his wife after seeing a sprint on T.V. "babe i can do that" just crazy. again though hayes ran his crazy times on dirt

[use2slam2]

rcaddict72: you wrote hayes' time of 9.91 AND his Rome time-(he never ran in the 60 Rome olympics)his 9.91 WAS electronic,SEIKO(the watch company had the timing electronically hooked up to the starters gun,so the millisecond that gun went off the timing started,the time of9.91 was not allowed because the wind was over legal but remember take into account he ran that AND his 10.06 on a loose dirt track for Christs sake,if he had the same conditions as Mexico bet it would;ve been 9.80's

[2Baker40]

@use2slam2 If we are into "could have would have" where does Delano Meriwether fit? He was 27 first time he worked out for any athletic event and 1 year later he ran 100 yds in 9.0 electronic timing. A knee injury kept him out of the 72 Olympics. If he had ran track from HS how fast could have or would have he been in 60, 64, 68 or 72? He did no more running til 78 and at 35 he ran 200 meters in 20.8. The best athlete, the best team always wins with the best time or the best score.

[fastsprinter26]

Im a track and field athelte and my these guys would have smoked these guys of todays if they had better tracks and trainning i mean this is pure power and speed. The guy with a tshirt on what if he had on something lighter he would have won

[xajactor]

A jamaican came second to Jim Hines olympic record run in 1968. The man Lennox Miller. Jamaica's first medal after independence in 1962. Miller just left high school in jamaica just 3 years prior to entering the 1968 Olympic Games. Its quite an achievement considering he was still a US collegian athlete.

[use2slam2]

puljacina:brother do i agree with you 1000%. hayes would have run a SICK time up in that altitude in 68' hell in 64 in a heat he ran 9.91 wind just over legal but look at the track he ran on, loose freakin cinder(dirt) and all this before the age of 22 and running track on the side after football

[puljacina]

@use2slam2 respect to hines but he wasnt in hayes' league!! just imagine hayes in mexico city..25/26 years old,serious training,his own shoes LOL,lane 3-5,the brand new track in mexico,altitude..9.75-80 WITH EASE!!!!!!!

[rcaddict72]

@puljacina interesting you say this as as good as his race was in 1964, second place was 10.2. meaning your projection would have bob running the same distance between him and second place, faster, again, in mexico. Bob ran 10.06 with a 1.1m/s wind in tokyo in 1964 with the right shoes and a synthetic track. dianabol was also part of a sprinter;'s training, and widely used in football at the time. jim hines ran his 9.95 with 0.3m/s wind. i'd wager bob wouldve ran maybe 9.90. freak yes..

[puljacina]

@rcaddict72 the funny moron is back LOL please read your 2 posts again and then tell me that your not a COMPLETE idiot...

[rcaddict72]

@use2slam2 they didnt record electronic times to hundredths in 1964. so he couldnt have run 9.91. wind readings also werent recorded at the time. this time, and his Rome time are not officially recognised by the IAAF...his 10.06 in tokyo is recognised as his official best performance.

[bossofalltime]

@rcaddict72 He did run 9.91 in the semi-final with a +5.3.....wind readings have been given since the 1930s that I know of

[puljacina]

hayes would have run a sub 9.8 in mexico

[gracko14]

9.8 over 40 years ago; remember it! Something else!

[ddenuci]

@gracko14 9.9

[crwnikeboy]

@gracko14 The actual time was 9.95

[nakedvolleyball]

@gracko14 Yeah, remember it because the running surfaces were not as lively then.

[ukandoittowithkandoo]

That is some time to run for it being in 60s.

[nakedvolleyball]

@ukandoittowithkandoo do you know what an article is? Like the words "the" and "a" and "an". Usually, in English, we use those words to denote nouns. So "in THE 60's" is correct. Please take note.

[ukandoittowithkandoo]

@nakedvolleyball Yeah ok whatever you total weirdo.

[blagger116]

@nakedvolleyball. Actually "in the 60's" is not correct. Like countless others you incorrectly insert an apostrophe for no logical reason. "In the 60s" is the correct way of writing this.

[decadyne]

@blagger116

If you're going to correct someone's grammar, it'd help if you actually used a comma correctly. In any case, you're wrong. The proper way to punctuate a given decade is to start with an apostrophe. The apostrophe represents the missing portion of the full number. I learned this way back in the '80s.

[xchernandez]

Haha, I just found out that Jim Hines, the winner of the race, is my grandmama's brother. :D

[blackbumbo]

@xchernandez suuurreeee

[xchernandez]

@blackbumbo It's no lie. :)

[EPizits]

@xchernandez No way. He's my uncle's father in law. No bullshit.

[xchernandez]

@EPizits That's pretty cool and creepy, but there's no bullshit here either.. :)

[dal4018]

@xchernandez If he's your relative then where did he attend college?

[xchernandez]

@dal4018 I don't know, but I do know he was born in Dumas. Lived in Oakland and such. Has 3 living sisters, one of them is my grandma. I can give names if you want them. :)

[dal4018]

@xchernandez Enough said he was a graduate of Texas Southern University

[Snauzer67]

@xchernandez dude keep in touch with the world and your own family. How can you not have know that!!??Well congrats!

[nakedvolleyball]

@Snauzer67 Congratulations that he has a grandmother? You moron. Everyone has, or had, a grandmother.

[nakedvolleyball]

@xchernandez that makes him your granduncle. Now go learn from him, instead of doing all that pimping and street hustling in Sacramento. Remember at your age, your granduncle was fighting for causes.

[NiScontex]

@xchernandez lol

[dal4018]

@xchernandez TEXAS SOUTHERN ALUM GO FLYING TIGER!!!!!!!!!!!

[LaZanzaraReturn]

@xchernandez ....and now...he is your uncle :)

[khoa123451]

thts really good for a person in the 60s

[1968Olympix]

Awesome movie! Im a 68 Olympian collecting photos and movies from all my teammates to assemble on to DVDs for everyone, and we would be absolutely thrilled to have permission from you to include a copy of your movie in our 68 Olympic Team Photoshare Project DVDs! Please click reply to my comment here if this would be POSSIBLE or NOT possible, THANK YOU!

[wwwgotristancom]

crap thats fast

[DeadlySnyp3r]

ill beat all of em in a race

[hotpapilatino253]

damn they hit the nos lol

[mauferis]

No caucasian in this final: 7 frican o afr-american (3 USA, 1 jamaica 1 Cuba 1madagascar 1 french of guadaloupe ) 1 redskin (the canadian Harry Jerome)

[b0w13nspac3]

the air is so thin up their so it is easier to run fast

[JacobReesor]

they look so fast of the start !

[xfactorjaf]

big up to Lennox Miller, for coming second in the race. Real Jamaican

[shadycd2]

its like horse racing..lol

[speedyslime93]

yeah thats wot i thort lols

[ColectivoeslovenoTV]

Somebody know:

Name of atlethes: Surinam or Nederlands.

[sequiaonda78]

yUP.. FIRST TIME MAN RUN UNDER 10 SEC.. AND IT WAS IN MY COUNTRY. MEXICO.

[777caca]

to bad it was never a mexican that ran under 10sec its was a black person haha

[metsdudenj]

thats not fair. I am sure there are Mexicans who have ran across the border into the US being chased by the Migra who have gone faster than that.

[rich187113]

First man to ge below 10 secs for 100m.

[sammsyboy01]

The actual record is 9.95

[Trackmaster14]

dude....way to steal this from 1981aLaN