Jesse Owens ran 100m in 10.3 seconds in 1936.Dallku wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 11:28 pm yes and Rick Barry was more athletic than LeBron James...
Please.... these nostalgia talks are dumb and based on emotion more than logic.
Sports have naturally evolved because it's common sense. Better science and more money resulting in better training, diet, habits... etc. It's normal human nature.
Back in the day your uncle would smoke a pack of Marlboro before the game and score a hatrick a few minutes after..
“Yes, decades later, current fastest-man-alive Usain Bolt has that time beat. According to sports science writer David Epstein, if Bolt and Owens raced together, Owens would still have had 14 feet to go after Bolt crossed the finish line in the 2013 World Championships, with a time of 9.77 (though, to be fair, Bolt ran the event even faster than that in the 2012 Olympics).
Jesse Owens ran on cinders, which expend much more energy than a flat racecourse.
But wait... let's take a moment to appreciate how fast Owens was 80 years ago.
In Epstein's 2014 Ted Talk, he put Owens' race time into perspective.
"Consider that Usain Bolt started by propelling himself out of blocks down a specially fabricated carpet designed to allow him to travel as fast as humanly possible. Jesse Owens, on the other hand, ran on cinders, the ash from burnt wood, and that soft surface stole far more energy from his legs as he ran."
As Race shows on the big screen, Owens actually dug out holes in the dirt for his feet.
"Biomechanical analysis of the speed of Owens' joints shows that had been running on the same surface as Bolt, he wouldn't have been 14 feet behind, he would have been within one stride," said Epstein.
And it's impossible to account for technological advances afforded to Bolt, like time-keeping devices, upgraded running clothes and better sneakers.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/ent ... /80523426/