The man is a borderline superhero. Check out Bolt’s race below and the WatchMojo profile on him HERE
Wow, this guy is a moron! If you’re going to try and break the world record for High Dive, you should probably be 100% certain that landing belly flop is not an option. Amazing that he didn’t break his back/die:
Congrats to Marty Brodeur for breaking Patrick Roy’s all time career win record of 551 wins. Watch the moment here:
In honor of this years March Madness tournament we’re revisiting the Top Ten Greatest College Basketball Programs of All Time as decided by WatchMojo.com. Check it out in convenient YouTube playlist format:
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OSLO, Norway (AP) - A physicist has done the math, and says Usain Bolt could have run the 100-meter Olympic final in 9.55 seconds if he had not slowed down to showboat.
“We estimate that he could have finished the race in a time between 9.55 and 9.61,” Norwegian physicist Hans Eriksen said Friday in a telephone interview.
Bolt won the final at the Beijing Olympics last month in 9.69 seconds, shaving 0.03 seconds off the record he set in May.
Eriksen, a physicist at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo, said he got the idea to examine just how quick Bolt could have gone after hearing his coach say that the Jamaican could have run 9.52 seconds.
“We saw the final on television and then spent the whole weekend researching,” Eriksen said. “It was fun. We’ve done more serious research work, but this one got far more attention.”Eriksen and his colleagues analyzed TV footage of the race, focusing on Bolt’s position, speed and acceleration, as well as that of runner-up Richard Thompson.
Both sprinters slowed before the finish line, but Bolt’s chest-beating celebration some 20 meters before the line cut his speed more.
“We don’t mean to say that this is the final and ultimate result,” Eriksen was quoted as saying in New Scientist magazine. “Instead, it’s a fun application and simple physics.”
The awkwardness surrounding how the ball landed in the Hall of Fame can only be matched by the awkwardness surrounding Barry Bonds season, or lack thereof.
Would you wear this?
The Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit is making such a splash in the pool that U.S. head coach Mark Schubert believes every record in the sport could fall at the Beijing Olympics.
Since the suit was unveiled in February, 19 long-course world records have been set and four short-course marks. The new Speedo suit has been worn in all but one of the 23 records.
At this point in 2004 — the last Olympic year — five world records had been set.
Swimming’s world governing body decided last weekend not to ban the new high-tech suit, despite claims of buoyancy and “technological doping” by some critics.
“I wouldn’t be surprised to see every world record broken at the games, and hopefully we’ll get a big percentage of those,” said Schubert, one of the most outspoken supporters of the new swimsuit.
Jessica Hardy of the United States became the latest record-holder in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke at the short-course world championships on Thursday.
When the Washington Capitals landed Cristobal Huet, Matt Cooke and Sergei Fedorov by the trade deadline, the message the front office sent to its players was simple: we’re not in any stinking rebuilding mode, this is the year we’re going to make a run at it.
It being the Stanley Cup… and with Alexander Ovechkin winning both the Maurice Richard and Art Ross trophy (top scorer and point-getter), smashing the record for most goals by a left-winger and becoming the first Russian to lead the league in points, there was frankly no better time than this year.
However, the Caps (who finished the year with one of the best streaks of the year) made it into the Cup playoffs thanks to the woeful Florida Panthers who defeated the even-more-woeful Carolina Hurricanes. That’s right, until that defeat sent the Hurricans packing, and pushed the Capitals up from ninth to third (welcome to the NHL folks!), the Capitals were out of the second season dance.
And as a result of that fact, many were arguing that Ovechkin was not worthy of the MVP trophy: the Hart.
Frankly, I was in the undecided camp, thinking “maybe the winner of the MVP trophy ain’t so valuable if his team flounders and does not make the playoffs.” But seeing how the Capitals clinched the playoffs by seeing the Hurricanes bow out, it’s now a fait accompli: I do not think it would have mattered had the Capitals made the playoffs or now. Think about it: yes, it took Ovechkin’s stellar play all season and in the stretch drive to give the Capitals the push they needed, but had the Canes won that game then the Capitals would be out. Frankly, that would not have made any difference whatsoever in measuring Overchkin’s accomplishments this year.
When the dust settles: Overchkin will have won the Art, the Hart and the Maurice Richard Trophy… I believe that is a first, ever (well, Gretzky did it but they did not have a trophy for the top goal scorer). As a Canadiens fan that will invariably have to go through the Capitals to hoist Lord Stanley this year, let’s hope Ovechkin’s heroics end now and end soon… somehow I doubt that… for Alexander Ovechkin’s greatness is only about to begin.
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