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yamama // January 15, 2009 at 6:42 am |
peter karlsson-9.98
Charlie // January 15, 2009 at 4:25 pm |
Thank you for the comment, yamama
Peter Karlsson never ran a sub 10 to my knowledge, in fact according to the IAAF his PB was 10.18s.
If he ran a windy sub 10, then it doesn’t count. Alan Wells ran a windy 10s flat in 79, but there was a 7m/s wind! If Usain Bolt has that we’d be talking about sub 9s times!
dfairweather // May 19, 2009 at 10:38 am |
is my comment in the wrong place?
Charlie // May 19, 2009 at 1:59 pm |
Technically, no as this page is a free for all page so comments on anything are welcome.
Obviously if you are looking for debate on the issue, posting it here isn’t likely to get that. If you re-post your comment on the right page. I will remove it from here. Sadly there doesn’t seem to be a way to move comments in wordpress.
Luca // June 15, 2009 at 12:11 pm |
The next white man that can run under 10 seconds I hope will be Fabio Cerutti.
See you in Berlin
Laszlo // September 8, 2009 at 4:23 pm |
Just two comments to white (Hungarian) athletes running the 100 m.
1. Attila Kovács was fourth (and best white athlete) in the epic final of Rome in 1987:
2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics Roma 28-Aug/06-Sep-87
Results – 100 METRES – Men – Final
Sunday, August 30, 1987 Wind: 1 m/s
1 Lewis Carl USA 9.93 (WR)
2 Stewart Raymond JAM 10.08
3 Christie Linford GBR 10.14
4 Kovács Attila HUN 10.20
5 Bryzgin Viktor URS 10.25
6 McRae Lee USA 10.34
7 Pavoni Pierfrancesco ITA 16.23
Johnson Ben CAN DQ
2. Roland Németh ran 10.08 and holds the Hungarian record since 1999. He ran close to his record (10.10) in 2000, too. A detailed (though not complete) list of his results can be found here:
http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/country=HUN/athcode=136709/index.html
Regards,
Laszlo
Chris Cooper // October 19, 2009 at 9:57 am |
Re the Seoul 1988 Olympic 100m race, you state that Ray Stewart secretly failed a drugs test the year before (1987). Whilst Ray Stewart is currently in trouble with drugs over his coaching career, I could find no other reference to an issue when he was racing. Do you have a source for this comment? I would like to include it (acknowledged) in a book I am writing on drugs in sport, but can’t do it unless there is some verification? Thanks for any help
regards
Chris
Charlie // October 19, 2009 at 2:40 pm |
Thanks for the comment Chris.
Are you referring to this?
If so that was a comment written by someone called ‘Jake’, and unfortunately it is most likely to be conjecture, rather than based on verified sources. I have certainly never heard anything of Stewart failing a drugs test whilst he was running.
Chris Cooper // October 19, 2009 at 3:45 pm |
Charlie,
yes it was this comment – thanks for your quick response. I have since found the same comment in one drugs in sport blog (could have been copied from here of course). Obviously not of a standard for a book at present then!