Usain Bolt: Case Study In Science Of Sprinting | ThePostGame - 0 views
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Since 2008, Bolt has taken a jackhammer to the 100-meter world record, lopping off a whopping .14 seconds. That might not sound like a huge chunk of time until you consider it's twice as much as any other sprinter has shaved off the world record since the advent of electronic scoring.
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"The amount of time to pick up a leg and put it down is very similar," he says. "It surprised us when we first figured it out."
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"You can easily imagine a 4-foot-10 gymnast doing a triple back flip, but imagine Shaquille O'Neal or Yao Ming doing it," he says. "You know they can't do it."