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    Greatest 100m of All-Time?

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          Mike Young on September 2, 2006 at 9:44 pm #12154

          Putting together this list made me think of the oft-asked question about what the greatest 100m performance of all-time was. Consider all factors (track hardness, known doping violations, wind assistance, altitude, etc) and post your vote.

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          utfootball4 on September 2, 2006 at 11:02 pm #56401

          i say Ben bc how he dominated his peers.

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          flight05 on September 3, 2006 at 10:10 am #56402

          and the fact it was almost 20 years ago…(and only .02 slower than WR now)

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          utfootball4 on September 4, 2006 at 3:29 am #56403

          powell 9.86 today

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          pzale8018 on September 4, 2006 at 6:15 am #56404

          I still think that Greene's WR in 1999 is still the greatest/most impressive 100m race ever.  He did it with a less that perfect reaction time and almost negligable wind puts it above all the rest.

          However, I will give a shout to Martina's 9.76 last year at C-USA, but only because I was there to watch it.

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          davan on September 4, 2006 at 8:11 am #56405

          Mo's best wind aided was 9.78 and most of his best races came with minimal or no wind assistance. Don't think the wind made as big of a difference for Mo as it does for some people.

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          Mike Young on September 4, 2006 at 7:50 pm #56406

          Mo's best wind aided was 9.78 and most of his best races came with minimal or no wind assistance. Don't think the wind made as big of a difference for Mo as it does for some people.

          I actually witnessed his 9.78. It was fairly early in the season (meaning he wasn't near a peak) and I highly doubt he could have run that fast without the wind. In fact I don't know if he broke 9.87 that year. I know there's a lot of talk about how the wind doesn't help him as much as others but I'm not completely sold on the idea. I think our sample size is too small to really make any hard conclusions. If we look at when in the season he ran his fast windy times and when he ran his fast non-windy times as well as put them in the context of the rest of performances he had during that season I think it points more to the fact that he's peaked very well for the major championships and he's had some great times somewhat earlier in the year that have been aided by wind.

          If we talk about a 'basic' time using the quasi-sciences of wind and altitude adjustments Mo's 9.82 in Edmonton remains the fastest 100m ever run at 9.78.

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          beast on September 19, 2006 at 5:04 pm #56407

          BJs still the man in my books. I really think he would of won even without his cocktail of drugs.

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