150 meter race Mo Green or MJ????

[Guest]

Maurice Greene probably the most consist 100 meter runner of all time vs Michael Johnson the greatest 200 meter runner ever 19.32 I have nothing else to say about that time.....Who would win.....what would happen during the race?

[Guest]

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I see Maurice Greene getting the early jump on Michael Johnson just because he is a better starter........Michael will eventually walk Maurice down in the final 50 meters.......MJ is just too stronger for Mo Green........

[Arnie]

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Neither one, both will pull up with some kind of injury.

[Guest]

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I'd have to agree with Arnie: they'd both "pull" up.

[gh]

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Same answer as when Bailey and MJ were going to meet; all depends on how you run it. If you run it on the straight, Mo wins. If you run it starting halfway through the 200 curve, MJ wins.

If you run it on a broad curve like they did in Bailey/MJ....??

ps--despite the results in Toronto, i think if you run that race 10 times, MJ wins 9.

[Guest]

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If all things were equal.(peaking,conditioning,etc.) Johnson would win 9 out of 10. However, track configuration would be huge. Someone said earlier that a straight away favors Mo(I say Mo wins 6 out of 10). A wide turn like Toronto's Johnson wins 8 out of 10. A regular turn 75 on and 75 off. Configured on lanes 4 and 5 Johnson would win all 10. The Toronto race was a joke. Johnson wasn't in peak shape, and I believe he took Bailey lightly. He probably thought he could beat him on 400 strength work. It was also early in the season and we all know pro track athletes peak in late July and through the middle of August. Plus, Johnson was still injured and not 100% from the Atlanta 200 wr.

[Per Andersen]

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So Johnson beats Bailey 8 out of 10 or is it 9 out of 10. Where do you guys come up with these numbers? If the Toronto race proved one thing it was that Johnson's starting technique was amateurish compared to Bailey who we know was never a particularly good starter. Also was Bailey in top shape at the time? With a 50 m turn and Bailey in lane 7 or 8 Bailey beats him like a drum.

[Guest]

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Per Anderson, Johnson was hurt and you know it. Lane 7 is a good lane for guys who are not good curve runners. Plus have you ever figured out that Bailey needed that race more MJ. Bailey is not American,so the media would never really recognize him as the worlds fastest man. MJ could always go back to the 200/400. And Bailey would have beat him like a drum? Where do you get your facts? Yes, he beat him ,but the outcome of two guys being 100% and running all the way through the line will never be known.

[Per Andersen]

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Rustyjaguar.
I'll grant you that Donovan maybe had more to prove and I also totally agree with your last line that the outcome of 2 guys being 100% will never be known. However, you said 9 out of 10 for M.J. and I said Donovan would beat him like a drum. 2 outrageous statements but it sure beats the endless drug discussions.

[Per Andersen]

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Rustyjaguar
I'll grant you that Donovan had more to gain than M.J. and I also totally agree with your last line about the outcome of 2 guys being 100%, running all the way through the line will never be known. But we are not dealing in facts here because there are no facts to support either one of us. You said M.J. 9 out of 10 times and I said Donovan beats him like a drum. 2 outrageous statements but it sure beats the endless drug discussions.

[Guest]

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Per Anderson, That's the best post I've seen in a couple of weeks. I agree with you 100%!

[MJD]

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Here's is what we have:

DB-1
MJ-0

Everything else is woulda coulda shoulda. To quote Ronnie W-that's why they run the race.

[Guest]

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Rusty Jaguar wrote: "Johnson wasn't in peak shape, and I believe he took Bailey lightly. He probably thought he could beat him on 400 strength work. It was also early in the season and we all know pro track athletes peak in late July and through the middle of August. Plus, Johnson was still injured and not 100% from the Atlanta 200 wr. "

You are probably right that he was not in peak shape to compete effectively at such a short distance.

But I think he was certainly 100 percent from his injury in Atlanta; the reason I think this is because Johnson ran 43.75 in Waco in March 97.

The fact is that Donovan Bailey ran a damn good race that day. If he hadn't turned around in the last 10 meters he probably would have broken 14.90.

I don't think Johnson necessarily wins that race 9 times out of 10. 150m is a short distance Bailey was the best short sprinter in the world at the time (before he came down with a virus later in the summer that began his downfall).

[Guest]

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While this race is a little short (about 99,850m) I'd venture to say that MJ would beat DB or MG if he was at his peak form (i.e 200 WR race) but that's just it, he probably wouldn't be. DB or MG would have a very real chance because they were almost always very consistantly fast and MJ while always good wasn't always consistantly great in the 200.

Out of 10 times:

DB: 2
MG: 3
MJ: 3
Fistfight before race: 1
Triple Hammy: 1

[DentyCracker]

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