4×400m Relay World Record in Barcelona 1992

1992 Olympic 4×400m Relay

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• track
• field

[rawjudgement]

Hahah yaa i know its crazy how he changed in a couple of years to being so big

[danieloshea69]

@rawjudgement Crazy indeed... I wonder how he did it?

[rawjudgement]

@danieloshea69 Yeah right lol. Well I read his book "Slaying the Dragon" and I recommend reading it if you want to know how to become a champion. Honestly though it doesn't show much of his workout, but it does explain how he surpassed his struggles. In the book he states that he had trouble with a few issues and what he did was in order to stay focus on his goals he wrote a list and followed it everyday, basically a schedule of his workout and so he just maintained it and became a success.

[jrussell04]

Steve Lewis was the 1988 Olympic 400m champion, when he was only 18 or 19 years old. His time of 43.87, that won the Olympic title over Butch Reynolds, who just broke the 400m World Record 5 weeks earlier, still stands as the World Junior Record. His time stands him the 7th fastest man over 400m. Only Johnson, Reynolds, Wariner, Watts, Merritt, Danny Everett and Lee Evans has ran faster over 400m than Lewis. He also won the Silver Medal 4 years later in 1992 in 400m. 3 golds and 1 Silver.

[PhiyukYu]

why are they pushing and shoving at the exchange zone?

[TXejas19]

I know why they start at different points on the track but it looks so discouraging

[Aarontlondon]

@japslapr It's not a case of being genetically West African. Europeans created a super 'West African' race through slavery where West Africans mixed a little with European and this gave African Americans etc an added advantage over original West Africans

[kozmon0t]

@japslapr Unless these studies you want me to search for involved biopsies of newborns, they can't demonstrate a genetic cause, so they're pointless.

There's also a conspicuous lack of world champion sprinters who are actually from West Africa, as opposed to the Western Hemisphere.

[japslapr]

@kozmon0t All you have to do is look up Western African and muscle fiber and you'll find tons of info, some even scholarly journals. I found one but YT is not allowing me to post the link. I'm not trying to be a prick, just look it up. There is credible info on the topic.

[kozmon0t]

@japslapr reference them, then. Or is that just something you heard? That's what conventional wisdom is. Hearsay that's heard and said so much, people believe it as fact.

In swimming, the 50m requires high fast-twitch proportion too, yet isn't dominated by African Americans. There's people who say that's because "whites" have a lower center of mass, which is ludicrous. It's because "white" kids are more often taught to swim in childhood. Period. Same with running and "blacks."

[japslapr]

@kozmon0t This is absolutely incorrect. There have been plenty of studies proving the African Americans have nearly double the fast twitch muscle fibers of a white person. Is this not genetic? This is exactly the reason that the fastest sprinters are black.

[kozmon0t]

@japslapr there's never been any evidence that kids with talent got their talent from genetics, as opposed to just the way they grew up. It's just a conventional wisdom.

There's a CW that North and East Africans are better equipped genetically for distance, but there's a big gap between the 60's and mid 80's where they didn't win much at all. There was Henry Rono and Abebe Bikila, but then the era of Viren, then Coe, Ovett, Cram, before Said Aouita started to dominate.

[japslapr]

@kozmon0t we could all train and get better, yes. But, you can not take a person with poor genes and train them from day one to be a sprinter and expect to break records. genetics plays a huge factor in it. People that run track get into it because their usually already quite fast.

[TheBlackKatana]

whoa youtube has a replay button