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100m World Record

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Justin Gatlin (United States) broke the 100m World Record, running it in 9.76 seconds, beating the previous record by Asafa Powell (Jamaica) by 0.01 seconds.


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Sat 05/13/06, 12:01 pm EST

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DNLLegend
972 days ago
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Does anyone else think this is BS? Can we really measure something to the 100th of a second to any degree of accuracy?
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Alex HolowczakHall of Famer
971 days ago
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I think they use lasers and such, and calculate when each laser was broken (with computers) to get the correct time. I don't think they just use a stopwatch anymore.
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