Your sentence is correct, but that isn’t the interrogative sentence that I took the time and trouble to correct. That person wrote “whom” not “to whom”?
1. Lewis competed 25 years before Bolt .The sport evolves
Lewis invented the super-float that Bolt emulated. His WR in 1991 must have been one of the best last 90m ever, after he just about fell on his face out of the blocks.
They are still the only two sprinters I've ever seen able to do that high-stepping overdrive thing.
Jesse Owens' is still worth remembering in this conversation. He set 4 world records in 45 minutes (3 new; 1 tied): 100, 220, 220 hurdle, and long jump (a record that lasted 25 years). He also tied the 100 record in HS, and he won 4 gold medals in Berlin in front of Hitler at the 1936 Olympics.
Owens had a 3-7 record vs Eulace Peacock at 100yards/meters.
Owens seemed to agree. After losing to Peacock five straight times beginning in July 1935, he said Peacock was the better sprinter. “It’s going to take a special man to beat Eulace Peacock,” he told one newspaper. “You see, I’ve already reached my peak. Peacock is just now reaching his. He’s a real athlete. I don’t know whether I can defeat him again.”
Due to an injury Peacock unable to compete in our Olympic trials, lucky Jesse,
Bolt is not only the greatest 100M sprinter in history, he's the best athlete I've ever seen in any sport. More dominant, more iconic than MJ, Brady, Ali, whoever. Goat of all the goats.
I know he has the world record, but people like Asafa have run way more sub 10s in the 100m, and Gatlin has more longevity over the event.
Mega troll post. He's run the 3 fastest 100 meters ever and is the only man to get under 9.7 more than once, and no one is within a tenth of his best which is kinda Flo jo comical (well in recent years ETH got real close but you get the point). He ran sub 9.8 12 times, the next best is Powell with 8. He get three Olympic golds in row and in between them all only lost the world title once to a false start.
It's so comically obvious he's the sprint goat that you feel compelled to be edgy like this lol
These things are unanswerable. But it's quite a stretch since Owens' best time was 10.2. How do you say with any precision what he could have run today?
When Owens ran 10.2, here's the list of runners who had already run 10.3. Are they all 9.6 guys today?
Percy Williams Eddie Tolan Ralph Metcalfe Eulace Peacock Chris Berger Takayoshi Yoshioka (+2.5)
With today's tracks, shoes, nutrition, and drugs why not? Do you think all these guys running 9.7 now would do so if you sent them back just 40 years ago when hardly anyone was breaking 10.0, let alone nearly 100 years ago?
@Deno Why do you think boxing fans will argue that Joe Louis- a 1930's heavyweight - could beat Tyson Fury today, but track fans scoff at the idea of Jesse Owens even being world class today? Is it simply because track has an 'objective' measure in times, and fans can't conceptualise that running in heavy leather boots on chewed up grass could be .5s slower over 100m and more than 2s slower a lap?