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A 4% improvement of the 100m dash world record would have been considered phenomenal, I imagine.
by jhgb 6y ago
A 4% improvement of the 100m dash world record would have been considered phenomenal, I imagine.
- alexeldeib 6y agoThis reminded me of the 4 minute mile. The first 4 minute mile was a 3:59 run by Roger Bannister in 1954. Prior to that, the record was a 4:01 run in 1945. A 4% improvement on the 4:01 would be a 3:51. A 3:51 wasn't achieved until 1966, about 20 years later. So 4% can be quite a jump!
- dbpatterson 6y agoExtending your point, 4% more would go down to just under 3:42.... which has not yet happened, over a half century later.
- zimpenfish 6y agoTo put that into context, Bolt's 9.58s (current WR, considered phenomenal in and of itself, I think?) is about 1.7% faster than Powell's 9.74s (last pre-Bolt WR). A 4% improvement on Bolt's 9.58s would be about 9.19s - probably not something we'll see for several decades, if ever.
- jamiek88 6y agoI wonder if I’ll ever see a Bolt again in my lifetime. Such dominance and grace. He jogged over the line with that record too.