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If Bill Gates randomly decided to transfer his entire net worth to me tomorrow morning, and i suddenly woke up with 50 billion dollars in my lap...
And I decided to get creative with it, and see what Earth's human population was really capable of at track and field sprints...
So I offered an open competition, open to Earth's entire human population, where the rules were, whichever person owned the fastest recorded IAAF-approved time in the 100m dash as of the day September 1, 2015, would be rewarded with one BILLION dollars (yes, billion, with a "b"), and same for the 200m and 400m, same rules/reward of 1 Billion dollars, and contest-end deadline being September 1, 2015, what do you think the world records would be in the 100m, 200m, and 400m by September 1, 2015?
I assume that Track and Field sprinting would skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyrocket incredibly dramatically, with tons of random people all over the world who felt they were pretty fast, young dudes, and had no reason not to give it a go, all training to see how fast they could go. Even if 99.9% of them realized pretty quickly that they would never come close to being fast enough to win, 0.1% of them would probably notice that they were progressing to some pretty fast times, and stick with it to see how low they could go, and, when there's millions of fit dudes in their early 20's, even just 0.01% of them is still thousands of highly motivated up and comers coming out of the woodwork. It would amplify the current sprint talent pool at least a hundredfold, if not a thousandfold, so we'd really get to see a bunch of bran new supertalents who never would've realized how talented they were at sprinting had they not been motivated to try it when they gave it a try just for kix one day after the big news came up of the billion dollar prize, knowing they were always pretty fast growing up, and figuring, oh why not at least give it a try, see what their baseline was and if it was worth considering doing seriously.
9.2x, 18.7x, and 41.x?
I strongly doubt Bolt is anywhere near being the genuinely fastest human being on the planet. I strongly believe that he IS obviously the genuinely fastest of the current pool of high level track and field sprinters, but, given what a tiny fraction of earth's fit, fast, young adult male population the current mens sprint pool is, it would be statistically extremely unlikely that he is the best raw sprint talent currently in existence out of all the young men on the planet right now. That said, obviously whichever unknown dudes who don't run track (and never have in their life) who are faster raw talents than Bolt wouldn't already be faster him prior to training, they'd be way slower, but I mean like, if they discovered track sprinting and trained hard at it upon realizing they had a real talent for it via my Billion dollar challenge, there certainly have to be a handful of guys out there who would become considerably faster than even Bolt by that deadline.
And I decided to get creative with it, and see what Earth's human population was really capable of at track and field sprints...
So I offered an open competition, open to Earth's entire human population, where the rules were, whichever person owned the fastest recorded IAAF-approved time in the 100m dash as of the day September 1, 2015, would be rewarded with one BILLION dollars (yes, billion, with a "b"), and same for the 200m and 400m, same rules/reward of 1 Billion dollars, and contest-end deadline being September 1, 2015, what do you think the world records would be in the 100m, 200m, and 400m by September 1, 2015?
I assume that Track and Field sprinting would skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyrocket incredibly dramatically, with tons of random people all over the world who felt they were pretty fast, young dudes, and had no reason not to give it a go, all training to see how fast they could go. Even if 99.9% of them realized pretty quickly that they would never come close to being fast enough to win, 0.1% of them would probably notice that they were progressing to some pretty fast times, and stick with it to see how low they could go, and, when there's millions of fit dudes in their early 20's, even just 0.01% of them is still thousands of highly motivated up and comers coming out of the woodwork. It would amplify the current sprint talent pool at least a hundredfold, if not a thousandfold, so we'd really get to see a bunch of bran new supertalents who never would've realized how talented they were at sprinting had they not been motivated to try it when they gave it a try just for kix one day after the big news came up of the billion dollar prize, knowing they were always pretty fast growing up, and figuring, oh why not at least give it a try, see what their baseline was and if it was worth considering doing seriously.
9.2x, 18.7x, and 41.x?
I strongly doubt Bolt is anywhere near being the genuinely fastest human being on the planet. I strongly believe that he IS obviously the genuinely fastest of the current pool of high level track and field sprinters, but, given what a tiny fraction of earth's fit, fast, young adult male population the current mens sprint pool is, it would be statistically extremely unlikely that he is the best raw sprint talent currently in existence out of all the young men on the planet right now. That said, obviously whichever unknown dudes who don't run track (and never have in their life) who are faster raw talents than Bolt wouldn't already be faster him prior to training, they'd be way slower, but I mean like, if they discovered track sprinting and trained hard at it upon realizing they had a real talent for it via my Billion dollar challenge, there certainly have to be a handful of guys out there who would become considerably faster than even Bolt by that deadline.
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