Aug 17 2009 11:07 AM
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If he's not on drugs, he is a drug.[/quote:143skt38] Well, he's not a drug...
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| MFS62 Aug 17 2009 12:28 PM |
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He blew the best of the best away in a ground breaking performance like Bob Hayes once did.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 17 2009 02:00 PM |
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Neun - Funf - Acht ? ... Uber Alles!!
Hayes ran in the pre-electronic timing days when advances were rounded and therefore routinely lowered in steps of 0.1 seconds even when they weren't actually being lowered by that amount. Having an electronically timed mark drop by .11 is a bigger deal IMO - particularly after lowering it just a year earlier. Hayes's big jump, IIRC, lowered the 100 yard mark from 9.2 to 9.1 (or was it 9.1 to 9-flat?) - certainly a significant mark at the time and a record that stood for a while although it's a mark that ceased to officially exist when the non-metric records (except for the mile) were all erased a number of years back. I like the fat guy "sprinting" with his camera as he tries to keep up with the celebrating and barely jogging Bolt.
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| metirish Aug 17 2009 02:08 PM |
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The story in pictures according to the Independent of London....no Bob Hayes?
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| Frayed Knot Aug 17 2009 02:11 PM |
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See my second paragraph above. I'm not sure Hayes ever ran the 100m - or at least didn't set a record in it. Not long after he set the world record in the 100 yd dash he was playing pro football and was therefore no longer eligible for "amateur" track competition.
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| metirish Aug 17 2009 02:12 PM |
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From Wiki At the 1964 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Hayes had his finest hour as a sprinter. First, he won the 100 m by tying the current World Record in the 100 m with a time of 10.0 seconds, even though he was running in lane 1 which had, the day before, been used for the 10 km and this badly chewed up the cinder track. He also was running in borrowed spikes because one of his shoes had been kicked under the bed when he was playing with some friends and he didn't realize until he got there.[citation needed] This was followed by a second gold medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay, which also produced a new World Record (39.06 seconds).
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| Frayed Knot Aug 17 2009 02:23 PM |
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Then I guess that piece you cited is only looking at when the record was [u:1erhalbt]broken[/u:1erhalbt] and not just tied.
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| metirish Aug 17 2009 02:29 PM |
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A few names in there i had forgotten about
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| seawolf17 Aug 17 2009 02:39 PM |
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To her father, at least, 18-year-old South African running sensation Caster Semenya is simply "daddy's little girl." After winning the 800 at the World Championships in Berlin Wednesday and facing public speculation about her gender, Semenya's family spoke out in her defense.
"She is my little girl. … I raised her and I have never doubted her gender. She is a woman and I can repeat that a million times," her father Jacob, told the Sowetan newspaper.
Wednesday, before Semenya dominated her opponents in the 800, word spread that there were questions about her gender. About three weeks ago, the IAAF, the sports' international ruling body, asked the South African athletics federation to conduct the gender test after Semenya posted a world leading time of 1 minute, 56.72 seconds at the African junior championships, a full seven seconds faster than her previous best.
Her improvements in the 800 and 1,500 meters, her deep voice and her muscular build led to questions about her gender.
The results of the test will not be available for weeks. The test requires a physical medical evaluation, and includes reports from a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, an internal medicine specialist and an expert on gender.
Semenya's family, however, needs no such tests to declare her a female.
"I know she is a woman," Semenya's paternal grandmother, Maputhi Sekgala told the South African daily The Times. "What can I do when they call her a man, when she's really not a man? It is God who made her look that way."
It is not the first time Semenya has faced confusion about her gender.
"She was always rough and played with the boys," the headmaster at her school, Eric Modiba told the Beeld newspaer. "She liked soccer and wore pants to school. She never wore a dress. It was only in Grade 11 that I realized she is a girl."
Semenya was often teased for looking like a boy in her village of Fairlie, which is about 300 miles north of Johannesburg, her cousin Evelyn Sekgala told the Associated Press.
"That's how God made her," Evelyn Sekgalatold the AP. "We brought her up in a way that when people start making fun of her, she shouldn't get upset."
The family was happy that Semenya focused on sports and stayed away from other teenagers who were interested in drinking and partying.
"She was mainly interested in running," Evyln Sekgala said. "She wanted to further her athletic dream."
Caster is not the first athlete to face questions about her gender.
Santhi Soundarajan of India was stripped of a medal in the 800 meters after failing a gender test in the 2006 Asian Games.
The most infamous case is that of Stella Walsh, a Polish athlete who won gold in the 100 at the 1932 Olympics. After being shot and killed during an armed robbery in 1980, the autopsy revealed Walsh had both male and female genitalia.
The IOC dropped gender testing before the 2000 Olympics because it became controversial. In explaining their reason for dropping the test, the IOC said not all women have standard female chromosomes. There are also cases of people who have ambiguous genitalia and congenital conditions.
After Semenya finished the 800 in a time more than two seconds better than second-place finisher Janeth Jepkosgei of Kenya, she did not speak to reporters. The general secretary of the IAAF Pierre Weiss took the dais instead. He said the testing was ordered because of "ambiguity, not because we believe she is cheating."
"But today there is no proof and the benefit of doubt must always be in favor of the athlete," Weiss said.
If she fails the gender test Semenya would be stripped of her medals.
Gideon Samm, president of South Africa's Olympic governing body, said the controversy was disappointing for Semenya and the South Africans.
"We condemn the way she was linked with such media speculation and allegation, especially on a day she ran in the final of her first major world event," Sam said. "It's the biggest day of her life."