Justin Gatlin's 40 Time

[EnviedOne]

Is anyone else watching SportsCenter? Did I hear it right... clocked at a 3.8-3.9 at the private workout with the Texans today? Is that humanly possible?

[nayers]

Originally Posted by Svoboda

Is that humanly possible?

with roids anything is possible

[LOVEMYIRISH]

Originally Posted by Svoboda

Is anyone else watching SportsCenter? Did I hear it right... clocked at a 3.8-3.9 at the private workout with the Texans today? Is that humanly possible?

It's BS. He would be faster than the fastest Olympic runner in history. I suspect they were timing wrong. Even though he is an olympic runner...

Here's a great article on 40 times.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports...1s18forty.html

Here's only a PORTION of the article. I recommend you read the whole thing.

There is no official world record for 40 yards.
The shortest distance that the IAAF, track and field's international governing body, recognizes for world-record purposes is an indoor 50 meters, or about 54 yards. It is 5.56 seconds and it was set by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 1996. There is also a world record for 60 meters – 6.39 seconds by American Maurice Greene in 1998.

But it is another Canadian, Ben Johnson, who is believed to have run 40 yards faster than any human in history. Johnson is best known for injecting copious amounts of steroids and winning the 100 meters at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul in 9.79 seconds, only to have his gold medal and world record stripped after failing a post-race drug test.

Timing officials have since broken down that famed race into 10-meter increments, and Johnson was so preposterously fast that he went through 50 meters in 5.52 seconds and 60 meters in 6.37 – both under the current world records at those distances. He went through 40 yards that day in 4.38 seconds.

He was running in spikes . . . on a warm afternoon perfectly suited for sprinting . . . with a slight tailwind . . . with years of training from arguably track's top coach, Charlie Francis . . . with Carl Lewis and six others of the fastest men on the planet chasing him . . . with 69,000 people roaring at Seoul's Olympic Stadium . . . with hundreds of millions of people watching on TV . . . with the ultimate prize in sports, an Olympic gold medal, at stake.

And, as we learned later, with muscles built with the assistance of the anabolic steroid stanazolol.

Four-point-three-eight seconds.

Then again, maybe Ben Johnson isn't the fastest 40-yard man in the world.

Maybe half the NFL is faster.

[moc182]

That can't be possible, but it would be very interesting to see him in the NFL.

[Pete]

Would he be automatically enrolled in the NFL drug program? He has failed two tests, one at Tenn. and one just this past year.

[tedwick]

lessee. gatlin's world record time was 9.77 seconds for 100 meters. that's .0977 seconds per meter. 40 yards is 36.5 meters. Gatlin's 9.77 world record time corresponds to a theoretical 40 time of 3.56 seconds. Also, that's over a longer distance, so the numbers could be even a bit quicker. So it's possible. It's already been done, and by other people as well.

going from the other end. A 3.9 second 40 corresponds to a 100 meter time of 10.7 seconds. So it's definitely doable. The NCAA mens record is 10.2. Even if Gatlin isn't on steroids anymore, he probably hasn't regressed all that much as a sprinter. The roids just got him to the WR. It's just combining that with football talent.

[kjones]

Originally Posted by tedwick

lessee. gatlin's world record time was 9.77 seconds for 100 meters. that's .0977 seconds per meter. 40 yards is 36.5 meters. Gatlin's 9.77 world record time corresponds to a theoretical 40 time of 3.56 seconds. Also, that's over a longer distance, so the numbers could be even a bit quicker. So it's possible. It's already been done, and by other people as well.

going from the other end. A 3.9 second 40 corresponds to a 100 meter time of 10.7 seconds. So it's definitely doable. The NCAA mens record is 10.2. Even if Gatlin isn't on steroids anymore, he probably hasn't regressed all that much as a sprinter. The roids just got him to the WR. It's just combining that with football talent.

Sorry tedwick, i love your posts but you are incorrect on this one. Your analysis assumes a constant velocity over the whole sprint, which is clearly an incorrect assumption. The numbers are shorter, not quicker, because you have to start from a dead stop. If you read the article posted above, you'll see that they actually did a tape analysis and he crossed 40 yards at 4.38!! That's with a full load of roids and a slight tailwind. The article is quite interesting, basically, because 40 times aren't done automatically, all athletes get at least an extra 0.24 or so on every run while the time has to react to the runner movement, instead of the runner reacting to a gun. And pressing button adds more tenths. And they anticipate the finishes. Etc. As long as we stay consistent to this sham of a measuring system 3.9 is possible, but it looks like not even under 4.3 is actually possible for a human being.