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Stunning on a stump!!! What would Maurice Greene have run?? (with two legs!!)

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An analysis of Maurice Greene's injury-hampered performance in the two thousand one World Championships one hundred meter final.

In 2001 at the World Championships, Mo Greene at the height of his powers, faced his arch rival, Tim Montgomery in Edmonton. Fueled by his dislike of Montgomery and thin air of Edmonton, Maurice Greene runs the third fastest time of his career... with only one leg for the last 30 meters. In a stunning display of grit, he limps over the line to win, hold off his enemy and take gold! But... in a recent interview on the The Powells youtube channel, he wonders himself what this time could have been..... this sounds like a job for Roughly Estimated. I go into the step counts and split times using all video evidence available to answer this previously unanswered question. I am left in awe at just how good Mo Greene really was... and how tough too.

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What commenters say. Linked to support the argument that Maurice Greene could have run much faster if he had not been injured.

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…based on how much he slowed down in his 9.74) 4. Yohan Blake – 9.69 (this seemed about his peak to me) 5. Kishane Thompson - 9.69 (I don’t think we’ve seen anything close to his potential yet) 6. Justin Gatlin – 9.70 (I think he could have gone a little quicker if he’d had his peak year a little earlier in his career) 6. Maurice Greene - 9.70 (link to this video We never saw anything close to what he could have run had he not got injured in this last 20m of his 2001 9.82) 8. Noah Lyles - 9.72 (with a decent tailwind and a great start, Noah should be capable for a low 9.7 based on his 6.43 60m and 19.31 200m) 9. Christian Coleman – 9.73 (if he could reproduce his 60m world record form for the firs…
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