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The Sprinting World Record That Shouldn't Exist (An analysis of Florence Griffith Joyner's 10.49)
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The Sprinting World Record That Shouldn't Exist
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An analysis of Florence Griffith-Joyner's one hundred meter world record and the wind gauge controversy surrounding it.
The wind said it, not me... Link to the study: web.archive.org/web/20120916095446/https://www.brunel.ac.uk/…(Linthorne).pdf Link to contacting World Athletics: worldathletics.org/about-iaaf/contact-us Big thanks to @metandyhill for providing some info as well!Why it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat commenters say. Recommended as an interesting analysis of the wind reading during Florence Griffith-Joyner's world record run.
@haveing_funin r/trackandfield • Mentions
On “When are they going to strike Flo Jo’s juiced WR times from the books. They’re so obscenely fast that I don’t think they will ever be broken.”
Here is a good video about it that shows some of NP Linthorne's paper on the record, at 4:30 you can see that virtually every athlete in the two QFs that had the 0.0m/s reading got a PB in the race
@spirited2031in r/trackandfield • Mentions
On “Why was Pedroso’s record annulled but FloJo’s still stands?”
Yeah no. There was no "swirling wind" that would produce an exact 0.00 reading on a wind gague. Simultaneous horizontal jumps running parallel to the 100m track were reading the 5+ readings that the other events did.
And a "0.0" wind reading is a very different thing to a "0.00" wind reading.
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@spirited2031in r/trackandfield • Mentions
On “Why was Pedroso’s record annulled but FloJo’s still stands?”
It's worse than that. It was exactly 0.00 winds. At the same time when horizontal jumps were happening directly parallel to the track and reading 5+
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@spirited2031in r/trackandfield • Mentions
On “Why was Pedroso’s record annulled but FloJo’s still stands?”
Yes they did:
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