Mexico 68 Olympic 100m Final

The 100m final at Mexico 68 Olympic Games

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• hines
• 100
• mexico
• 1968

[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.

[puljacina]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]: 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] 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]: 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] 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]: 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]: 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.