This story is from August 15, Which is the fastest race of the Olympics? You are wrong if you think it's the men m sprint. The event might be the yardstick to decide planet's fastest man but it is not the fastest race. In terms of speed the men 4Xm is always faster than the m race. In the Olympics Usain Bolt clocked 9. The time taken by the four sprinters of Jamaican 4Xm was Evidently the average time taken by each athlete to finish m was 9.
Similarly in Beijing games the time taken by Bolt to finish m was 9. Was one of his teammates running faster than Bolt? The answer is everyone except the starter was running faster than Bolt.
Even Bolt clocked lesser time than his m run. If we analyse the spilt timings of Usain Bolt's world record performance in Berlin it becomes clear that the slowest part of a m sprint is the first 10m.
In the race Bolt was slowest in the first 10m which he finished in 1. He finished the next 10m in 0. Similarly Powel, also running in the race, was slowest in the first 10m which he finished in 1. The slowest athlete thus runs only 80 metres. Simply because the relay runners take the baton when they are running and in the transfer zone.
So the time to hit top speed is lower. In a sprint, you never get a running start. If you look at the time breakdown of each leg in the relay, the first leg is usually the slowest. The outgoing runner usually runs at full speed with an arm stretched out behind in order to receive the baton. Between 16 August and 19 August , Usain Bolt won 19 Olympic and world championship gold medals in the 21 events he entered, a staggering tally that makes him the greatest sprinter of all time.
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