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Why Its Almost Impossible to Run 100 Meters In 9 Seconds
Wisethero
English - August 05, 2021 18:00 - 13 minutes - 29.8 MBSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The title for the fastest man or woman on earth
belongs to whoever owns the 100 meter sprint time.
Because it is the benchmark for all out running speed.
[Broadcast Announcer] And off and running.
Asafa Powell gets a good start.
Usain Bolt in the middle is now exploding!
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is the fastest man on earth
with an official world record time
of 9.58 seconds in the 100 meter dash.
At his fastest, he's running more than 27 miles per hour.
Elite sprinters look like they leave it all on the track,
but could they eke out just a little bit more, somehow?
Today we're gonna look at why running
a 100 meter dash in nine seconds flat is almost impossible.
To find out what it takes I towed the line
with two of America's top sprinters,
and talked physiological limits with a biomechanist.
are how quickly you get up to speed,
and then how fast you can run once you get there basically.
Yeah, make sure they're all the way on.
I got a lesson in getting up to speed