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.......in 1979. Ok let's say there was no Michael Johnson. Let's take him and Frankie out of the mix. I doubt Fredericks runs his sub 19.70 without chasing MJ.
2006 would have been the year that Mennea's record was finally broken. That's a long time! It took 27 years to go from 19.72 to 19.63. Do we really expect 19.52 then 19.42 then 19.31 to be different? Why? Remember we have no MJ to use as a barometer. A 19.6 is a long long way from a 19.3. That's like a 10.30 guy running a 10.00.
It's great to see the 200 back in the spotlight. And yes these 19.6's/19.70's are great. I do think a 19.57-9 isn't too far away. A 19.40? A 19.31....hmmmm? I've seen a lot of track over the last...hmmm...40 some years. I've never seen anything like that Atlanta blaze in 96. Sorry Bullet, sorry Tommie. It was something very special. Something soooooo far out there, sooooo off the charts, that it leaves the relm of an athlectic performance and into the relm of the supernatural. I'm dead serious! I have a book .."Incredible Athlectic Feats"....here we find those oddities and things like Dale Cummings and his 14,000 plus situps, it took him 12 hours. A book of stuff like that. Well 19.32 belongs. It's in that category. The only track & field record I can say that about (Michael Carter's hs shot record?). They all will be broken, all but that 19.32. Ok ok I'll back off that a bit. "If" it is broken, it will not be in the next 30 years (unless some drug comes along that can't be detected) I'm figuring we won't be seeing many sub 19.6's. Sub 19.4's....nay.....that's a long way off.
I feel strange typing...sub 19.4's...that's how amazing that night in Atlanta in 96 was.
Here it is 10 years after the blur and we are talking sub 19.7's. Trust me, it will be a long, long time before we start talking sub 19.4's.
2006 would have been the year that Mennea's record was finally broken. That's a long time! It took 27 years to go from 19.72 to 19.63. Do we really expect 19.52 then 19.42 then 19.31 to be different? Why? Remember we have no MJ to use as a barometer. A 19.6 is a long long way from a 19.3. That's like a 10.30 guy running a 10.00.
It's great to see the 200 back in the spotlight. And yes these 19.6's/19.70's are great. I do think a 19.57-9 isn't too far away. A 19.40? A 19.31....hmmmm? I've seen a lot of track over the last...hmmm...40 some years. I've never seen anything like that Atlanta blaze in 96. Sorry Bullet, sorry Tommie. It was something very special. Something soooooo far out there, sooooo off the charts, that it leaves the relm of an athlectic performance and into the relm of the supernatural. I'm dead serious! I have a book .."Incredible Athlectic Feats"....here we find those oddities and things like Dale Cummings and his 14,000 plus situps, it took him 12 hours. A book of stuff like that. Well 19.32 belongs. It's in that category. The only track & field record I can say that about (Michael Carter's hs shot record?). They all will be broken, all but that 19.32. Ok ok I'll back off that a bit. "If" it is broken, it will not be in the next 30 years (unless some drug comes along that can't be detected) I'm figuring we won't be seeing many sub 19.6's. Sub 19.4's....nay.....that's a long way off.
I feel strange typing...sub 19.4's...that's how amazing that night in Atlanta in 96 was.
Here it is 10 years after the blur and we are talking sub 19.7's. Trust me, it will be a long, long time before we start talking sub 19.4's.
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