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Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100M at Her Kid's Sports Day Event
- paleotrope 2y agoI don't think it was intentional, being kottke.org, but it's a terrific click bait headline.
- johanvts 1y agoWitness the fitness https://youtu.be/NDWgtB_MD24 https://youtu.be/NDWgtB_MD24
- parkaboy 1y agoCame here for this! One of the best music video concepts ever devised.
- petepete 1y agoI still remember seeing the three legged race for the first time and my brother and I were in hysterics. Still one of my favourite ever music videos. Roots Manuva never really got the credit he deserved.
- InsideOutSanta 1y agoWhat's amazing isn't just how much faster she is but also how much control she has over her body. Her motions are so precise and perfect, the people behind her look like a flailing Zombie horde in comparison. I guess that's what I should have expected, but I never noticed it in competitions, because everybody moves like that there.
- metalman 1y agoBest thing I have seen in a long time, lucky that there were two cameras, as the drone pilot lost the shot , there was no way to show the race from a close distance.......guessing we just have seen a demonstration of how stadiums got invented ie: sometimes you need a little distance to get a true perspective of what is happening
- CoastalCoder 1y agoThe headline is 70% on the way to being in The Onion.
- dogman1050 1y agoI was in an intramural American flag football league in college and one chemical engineering student who played was the biggest, quickest, strongest and most clever player on the field, and by big margin. He was also very friendly. A whole different class of human. No how much I trained I would never be able to complete with him. In earlier times, he would've been the tribe leader.
- resource_waste 1y agoA 100M doesnt have that drastic of a time difference between an athlete and an Olympian. We are talking a few seconds max. This is more of a knock on how out of shape the parents were.
- evertedsphere 1y agoas a proportion of the total time a few seconds is a lot
- otikik 1y agoYou see the same thing in e-sports too. You can be “good” at StarCraft 2 and still be miles away from the top. Even between the top 100 players the difference is stark
- reisse 1y agoThis seems like a fairly bad example to compare with? These runners do not even look like amateurs. Look how the best of the bunch still does the novice mistake of decelerating _before_ the finish line. They're just regular people asked for "let's try to run a 100m sprint". It doesn't take an Olympic champion to get a 3+ seconds lead in such competition. The above-average track runner would look the same in this video. And the Olympic champion might have an 1s+ lead on them, which is still a lot, but not as lot as in this video (at least they will both fit in the camera).
- IshKebab 1y agoNobody was claiming the other parents were runners? Your comment makes no sense.
- hexo 1y agoIt is m not M. As mega is not meter.
- oatsandsugar 1y agoYou are right! My mistake
- musha68k 1y agoWow, what a nothing burger. On Kottke. Pretty cool that she gave it her everything at a mere parent event IMO. Is this why this is on HN? Genuinely asking.
- oatsandsugar 1y agoFun to contextualize excellence.
- andrewstuart 1y agoI think I’d have fun and let someone else win.
- xnx 2y agoI believe many people have jokingly proposed that every Olympic event contain one random/normal person to give some sense of perspective of the real skill and performance of the Olympians.
- __s 1y agoIt happened. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dJpjSX-aDXI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dJpjSX-aDXI
- z3t4 1y agoThis is one reason I like watching the olympics, because not everyone is professionally paid to be there. Versus for example a diamond league stadium where everyone on the starting line got paid to show up. I especially like to watch the first heats on the 100m where the top sprinters like to show off, usually by jogging the last 10-20m of the race.
- maccard 1y agoI’ve competed at elite level spots in the past, and been in the top percentiles overall for running and weight lifts. I was faster and stronger than pretty much any normal person would be. The difference between me and an average Joe in strength technique and speed was still less than the difference between me and the Olympic level athletes that I occasionally competed (or worse, trained) with. I’ve seen this since with musicians, and even the occasional engineer. They’re just operating at a different level to the rest of us.
- freddie_mercury 1y agoBrian Scalabrine was a bottom of the barrel NBA player. He was good enough to stay in the league for years but he'd only play about 13 minutes a game and averaged 3 points a game. Basically he was the guy who would play a few minutes and not completely tank the game while your actually good players were getting a rest. After he retired he went around playing amateurs and completely dominating them. He became semi famous for his saying "I'm closer to LeBron James than you are you to me."
- gus_massa 2y agoI'd like to play a football match with Messi, if my kids shared a class with his.
- defrost 2y agoIt's great when people don't hold back, we have a local case of farmer next door hits 24 x 24 inch targets at 5,000 yards while his spotter hits soda cans at 1,200 yards. Bit daunting for the rest of us, but a good source of advice and tips.
- undebuggable 1y agoAs his skills are at another unachievable level, how do you know if he is not taking a piss with the hints? It's like the multi-billion business founders saying "we got this idea while having having a beer and started in a garage".
- defrost 1y agoIt's not hard to sort good advice from bad. * He's not the only ULR shooter in the area or the world, do they generally agree with each other or not? * Guns clamped in place can be repeatedly fired and adjusted with turn screws allowing for evaluation of accuracy and range independant of the shooter. Advice generally comes in the form of packing loads, types of shells, cold vs warm vs hot barrels, wear on twist, allowances for wind, drop, and ignoring coriolis force, etc. Any advice similar to having a beer and shooting from a lawn chair in the garage can be readily discarded.
- tocs3 2y agoA great short video — though I was hoping she was running against the kids.
- nosianu 1y agoThat reminds me of the Meaning of Life sketch playing a rugby match with the boys team against the masters as punishment for not paying attention in sex education class :) https://youtu.be/HKv6o7YqHnE https://youtu.be/HKv6o7YqHnE
- voidmain0001 1y agoI thought the same, and I was thinking of how funny that would be. As if Pryce needs to prove her worth against kids?! Pryce would probably win 1st, 2nd and 3rd places leaving nothing but participation ribbons for the kiddos.
- hackeraccount 2y agoThe thing that gets me is the difference between "I can win Olympic gold" which is what 10 seconds? And "I'm competitive at the school sports day event" which is ~15 seconds? For me that's right up there with the difference between the fastest anyone's ever run a mile and the pace per mile of someone running an Olympic marathon. Both seem really weird in a way I can't put my finger on.
- Etheryte 1y agoBy the power of the bell curve, you won't then usually see someone who both participates in the school sports day event seriously and runs it in over 20 seconds.