Magakwe breaks ten second barrier

Well done Magakwe -D

Guys name was Reggie Walker.

Still the youngest person to win the Olympic 100m gold - which he won in 1908.

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> SA does have a 100m olympic champ way back to the
> previous olympic to Chariots Of Fire. He was
> trained by the same guy who trained Abrahams in
> Chariots, an Italian/Arab Mussaminni I think.

@ undertaker. I think Walker came from Durban.
"Walker" - nowthere is an inappropiate surname

TNaicker Wrote:

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> > yes was a super young Talent. at one stage so
> > close to the 200 world record of the time.
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> Just checked some stats...his 200m best was more
> than 1 sec slower than Pietro Mennea's world
> record...:S

My apologies he was 16/17when he ran the 20.51/20.88 had to google it. world junior record stands at 20.13 and 19.97 Usain Bolt.

The world record at the time for youth was 20.39

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> > > JAMES BLOND Wrote:
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> > > yes was a super young Talent. at one stage so
> > > close to the 200 world record of the time.
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> > Just checked some stats...his 200m best was
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> > than 1 sec slower than Pietro Mennea's world
> > record...:S
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> My apologies he was 16/17when he ran the
> 20.51/20.88 had to google it. world junior record
> stands at 20.13 and 19.97 Usain Bolt.
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> The world record at the time for youth was 20.39

(tu) No worries...we learn something new every day...

SAR 9.98 vs WR 9.58, will probably finish eighth at the commonwealth games...

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> SAR 9.98 vs WR 9.58, will probably finish eighth
> at the commonwealth games...

Nobody is going to get close to the WR 9.58 anytime soon...that was a day when everything was right...Ross Tucker and other sports scientists have done calculations that 9.55 is probably the absolute minimum if all conditions right and athlete runs all the way to the line...no ease up to celebrate...

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> > at the commonwealth games...
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> Nobody is going to get close to the WR 9.58
> anytime soon...that was a day when everything was
> right...Ross Tucker and other sports scientists
> have done calculations that 9.55 is probably the
> absolute minimum if all conditions right and
> athlete runs all the way to the line...no ease up
> to celebrate...


Bolt believes has can do 9.40: what do you say, impossible?

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> > > SAR 9.98 vs WR 9.58, will probably finish
> > eighth
> > > at the commonwealth games...
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> > Nobody is going to get close to the WR 9.58
> > anytime soon...that was a day when everything
> was
> > right...Ross Tucker and other sports scientists
> > have done calculations that 9.55 is probably
> the
> > absolute minimum if all conditions right and
> > athlete runs all the way to the line...no ease
> up
> > to celebrate...
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> Bolt believes has can do 9.40: what do you say,
> impossible?

Not possible to go low 9,5 unless he improves his start and runs all the way to the line...but 9,4 ??...can't see where he is going to pick up another 0,1 after improving start and finish...he is already the fastest ever during the middle part of the race (40-80 metres) and has the lowest 10m and 20m splits ever during this phase of the race...

Already takes the fewest paces over 100m due to height / stride length so where the further reduction is going to be, I just cannot see...