Why Jim Hines 9.95 stood for 15 years!

[mrbowie]

Re: Why Jim Hines 9.95 stood for 15 years!

Championships are more important than records to all but the truly pedantic and anal. They are lucky a sport such as track and field exists, otherwise they would be trolling the internet and bothering normal people.

[John G]

Re: Why Jim Hines 9.95 stood for 15 years!

Hines' 10.03 (+0.8)at the OT in Sacramento was more impressive. I think he's underrated paradoxically because of the 9.95A. Had altitude assisted times been illegal, his 10.03 would have stood a WR til Sanford ran 10.02 (+1.0)in 1980 (Leonard equallled it in 77 with a +1.7). I don't think we saw a clearly superior sprinter to Hayes and Hines til Lewis ran 10.00 (nil) in Dallas in 1981.

[Marlow]

Re: Why Jim Hines 9.95 stood for 15 years!

Championships are more important than records to all but the truly pedantic and anal.

Color me pedantically anal then. I am equally impressed by both. A record says you've done something no one has done before. A championship says you were the best that day, under those conditions.

[gh]

Re: Why Jim Hines 9.95 stood for 15 years!

Records are made when the conditions are perfect; perhaps a perfection your closely matched rivals never see (see both World Records in the discus, for example). A championships win means you beat your peers with a completely level playing field.