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Prefontaine Vs Viren?
Question:If Prefontaine lived to compete in the Montreal olympics do you chew over Pre would have vanquish Viren and taken first in the 5,000 Meters... Prefontaine is the man but I have a sneaking suspicion that Viren would have still thump him
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Interesting question. 2 things to consider here too: Pre have spent time fighting the AAU something like remaining "amateur" for the Olympics, which interfered with his competing within certain events. The other entity was that Viren supposedly blood doped, something he never admit to, but all of his doctors and trainers said he did for the Olympics. It is also true that Viren never placed even contained by the top 5 in any event after blood doping be made illegal.
With that contained by mind, I agree, I think Viren would own won the race surrounded by Montreal. Still though, it would have be a good see because Pre definately would have tried to stay beside Viren for as long as possible, even when Viren started front-running as early as he did
Lasse would win smoothly!
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Who is the fastest white sprinter ever?
Question:I know Matt Shirvington (AUS) who has a personal journal of 10.03 sec (1998) and Armin Hary (GER) who ran 10,0 within 1960 (time taken manually). To me, Armin Hary is the best ever. But has anyone be faster yet?
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Marian Woronin of Poland record the fastest (legal) auto timed 100 meter dash time for a white sprinter 10.00. Matt Shirvington of Australia and Nic Macrozonaris of Canada both hold a personal best in the 100 meters of 10.03.
Armin Hary run a 10.0, but that was mitt timed back surrounded by the 50's & 60's, plus he was specified for "beating the gun." Borzov never run faster than an auto timed 10.07 .
Hey Anonymous, it ain't in your genes, it's surrounded by the drugs you're using! At least white sprinters aren't using drugs to attain faster...
me
My black lab! Shes fast.
The guy beside the stolen raidio, the one with the TV is not adjectives it.
Sometimes you have to do more research. Valery Borzov (U.S.S.R.) won the 100m and 200m contained by the 1972 Olympics.
Armin Hary!
you mean no white man have ever gone under 10 second lol..rolls on floor laughing....thats funny..all those big black guys other go below 10 seconds..thats funny.you would devise atleast one would have made it..i guess its contained by our black genes
Whoever takes the most winstral.
Men of West African birth will always be the fastest sprinters : men of East African and mountainous (Atlas mountains) North Africa the best long-distance runners - especially if they hold a white South African chasing them with a sjambok!!
whites freshly aren't as fast contained by the 100 or 200. they beat blacks at mid and long distance though, so it make up for it.
Are the olympic games sporting events or competitions?
Question:The reason I am asking for opinion on this is that it came up within a disscussion recently and one of the people(A tubby little man who barely have enough lung dimensions to bend over to pick up something he dropped on the floor) laughed and said the following be the "stupidest thing I ever hear of". The 2008 Olmpics are being held surrounded by Beijing, stunt cheerleading has be chosen as a "trial" competition. My son and four other guys and three girls who all work for UCA (Universal Cheerleaders Association) are going to sign out in Sept. to start culture the Chinese. Anyway, my son and his wife both do this professionally for a living and make more money than the nice little butter man does at his boring 9-5 job, so I don't supervision that he thinks what they do is stupid. I would close to to know if who thinks as a competition it could own a place in the olympics at some point contained by time.
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Its a little Gray nouns. The IOC's mission is :
According to the Olympic Charter, established by Pierre de Coubertin, the goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to building a relaxing and better world by educating youth through sport practised without nouns of any kind and surrounded by the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding beside a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.
The UCA have to establish their petition to qualify as a "recognised sport" under Olympic Charter. Only next will they be allowed in Olympics. UCA have to establish its support from other International Sports foundations for their sport.
Based on that I think that UCA have a very fair-minded chance of making its agency to 2008 Beijing Games provided they can get required number of countries to play a part.
olympics are a competition, not a sporting event. back surrounded by the olden days olympics were held as competitions to see who have the fastest runner, strongest soldier, best wrestler. there is an thing of win/lose but if it were a sporting event, approaching football or baseball, there would be some other incentive than lately winning. cheerleading I don't ruminate will have for slightly some time. simply bcuz not many countries hold cheerleaders. it's not an available option for lots countries as a means of competition or what hold you. perhaps within the future..I don`t know.
Its a competition amongst nations involving miscellaneous sports.
The olympics started as competitions, but when the american media convinced the IOC to transfer the rules to allow professional athletes to compete, they changed into a "media product". Atlanta brought them to the horizontal of modern day genuineness TV, with little cause in genuineness, just a bunch of coarse material for marketing drones to spin into a saleable product.
sporting events ARE competitions...you are COMPETING at a SPORT against others...at hand are spectators, thus it is an EVENT. as said before SPORTING EVENTS ARE COMPETITIONS assuming you are competing against others. Since surrounded by the Olympics people are participating within a SPORT (that is, afterall the Olympics is comprised of a bunch of SPORTS), and COMPETING against each other, it is perceptibly both.
not everything American is universal. Cheerleading is an American institution which doesn't hold to dowith Olympism or the Olympic spirit. The Olympics should be what they were created to be and not include everything plausible to please an American TV audience.
Cheerleading is not a sport, much less one next to a long, noble tradition bringing up the rear it, which would qualify it as an Olympic discipline.There:one can put it plainly without "yelling".
Well if you look contained by the dictionary it's says that a sport is a competition so I right to be heard it's a competition so that means it's a sport.
It depends on the sport.
In my assessment if you compete man on man(or woman on woman) where here is a clear winner I'd phone up that a sport.
If you're relying on some arbitrary score by some biased intermediary I'd call that a competition(and not a terrifically fair one since abundantly of judges come within having a predetermined outcome within mind.
(Remember the women's figure skating failure?)
Athlete KATHLENE MERRY what is she doing in a minute?
Question:she was a runner,taking fragment in 200and 400 metre race
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Watching the Euro athletics Championships probably.
I think she have surgery a while back. I don't guess she retired. YOu can check out athlete's biographies on the ukathletics homepage.
I want to know about Donna Fraser, cos she's from my home town.
Still is.
In July 2005 Merry announced her ceremonial retirement from athletics. She had be suffering from a foot injury since 2001 and was struggling to catch it healed fully.
I give attention to she has taken as a chairperson within the British Athletic Board. She was anyone interviewed last Saturday on Five Live but cannot ind anything to confirm this.
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