{"id":1185,"date":"2008-09-18T06:22:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T11:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:13","slug":"955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"9.55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg19926734.600-how-much-faster-could-usain-bolt-have-gone.html\">how fast a group of physicists have calculated Usain Bolt would have run<\/a> in the recent Olympic 100-meter final had he not started celebrating and thumping his chest with 20 meters to go (he still ran 9.69, a new world record).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about that, there are a lot of assumptions there as the article points out, but if  he really would have ran 9.55 I&#8217;d bet that would surely eclipse the longevity of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Beamon\">Bob Beamons&#8217; 29 ft. 2.5 inch mark in the long jump<\/a> which stood from 1968 to 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, whatever it is that you&#8217;re doing, people, run through the tape. Always, run through the tape.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--cc8c6f3db2b886089adce7e6ae115222-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--8d2583c97d64ae631ad375e5a859c2d6-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--650a9921383d3d94c22aa11f10ba60d2-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--cc8c6f3db2b886089adce7e6ae115222-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--650a9921383d3d94c22aa11f10ba60d2--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how fast a group of physicists have calculated Usain Bolt would have run in the recent Olympic 100-meter final had he not started celebrating and thumping his chest with 20 meters to go (he still&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,23,68,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-current-events","category-running","category-sports","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9289,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/9289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}