Also keep in mind, if my light research is correct, Micah Williams is something like two or three years younger than Garcia. I think even Boling, who was old for his grade in HS, is a year or two younger than Garcia appears to be.
From a development standpoint that seems noteworthy. Though all power to Garcia to find his ceiling. Again, just giving context.
World record conditions are +2.0 mps. That, if anything, is what performances should be corrected to. But we shouldn't be making fine distinctions with regard to basic calculations, because we know two things, 1) different people are affected somewhat differently by head- and tailwinds; 2) wind measurements at one place are not necessarily representative of the wind the athletes are actually facing on the track in their race.
World record conditions are +2.0 mps. That, if anything, is what performances should be corrected to. But we shouldn't be making fine distinctions with regard to basic calculations, because we know two things, 1) different people are affected somewhat differently by head- and tailwinds; 2) wind measurements at one place are not necessarily representative of the wind the athletes are actually facing on the track in their race.
Totally agree. Again, from my end, it's just a tool for context. The "fine distinctions" are reserved for face to face/head to head results. For sure.
World record conditions are +2.0 mps. That, if anything, is what performances should be corrected to. But we shouldn't be making fine distinctions with regard to basic calculations, because we know two things, 1) different people are affected somewhat differently by head- and tailwinds; 2) wind measurements at one place are not necessarily representative of the wind the athletes are actually facing on the track in their race.
Totally agree. Again, from my end, it's just a tool for context. The "fine distinctions" are reserved for face to face/head to head results. For sure.
Yes—but the bottom line is that a given sprinter running on a given day will run faster with a tailwind than a headwind or no wind. How much is an approximation and does vary slightly. Also, the basic list (once anomalous and high-wind races have been removed) has been a better predictor of who will be in major finals than has been the raw list—although not by much, I forget the exact figures for each year.
My problems with all that basic/wind stuff is this....
9.72 +0.2 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1rA Lausanne 02.09.2008 9
9.74 +1.7 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1h2 Rieti 09.09.2007
There is Powell's two fastest times, notice he runs faster with +0.2 than he did at +1.7
How can that be? Could there be more to this than just wind? How about the track, how about the temp? OBVIOUSLY.....running with the wind beats the hell out of running agains it, but I do think it pretty much stops there. So many examples of similiar deals like we saw with Powell.
