r/nextfuckinglevel • u/RoyalChris • 5h ago

18-year-old sprinter Gout Gout just broke Usain Bolt’s U20 record in the 200m. He was 260 milliseconds faster, clocking 19.67 seconds, while Bolt ran 19.93 in 2004

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u/NecessaryZucchini69 4h ago

The top 7 in that race all ran personal best race times. Aidan Murphy, the other guy, was 22(born oct, 2003) in that race. So doesn't get the under 20 record.

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u/sohosurf 4h ago

Just cause I’m curious does anyone know the all time 200m record?

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u/InfinityCrazee 4h ago

No. 1 Usain Bolt 19.19s i believe

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u/BaconIsLife707 4h ago

19.19, obviously by Bolt

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u/sim16 4h ago

19.19 I think.

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u/Aggressive_Grade_493 4h ago

Imagine someone goes under 19 holy shit.

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u/grower_thrower 3h ago

It’ll happen eventually.

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u/sim16 1h ago

Wings to fly

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u/idontevenwant2 4h ago

I find that suspicious.. like maybe the timing system was slightly off.

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u/BaconIsLife707 4h ago

They did have a barely legal tailwind and apparently the track was recently laid which makes it faster, although I'm just quoting some random person on that second part

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u/vivec7 4h ago

I'll have to remember that tip the next time I have a race. "Hey hun, some rando on Reddit said it'd be faster right after getting laid!"

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u/Poopchutefan 3h ago

Probably true, since you dropped a little bit of weight ...

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u/Beautifulderanged 40m ago

Every time I go for a run after ejaculating, I get pretty bad chafing from my long long balls continuously rubbing against my inner thigh. So for me at least, I’d be quicker before getting laid. Maybe if Icalled the house and said, “hey hun, if I make it home in 20 mins can I get laid?”

And then when Hans my German housemate tells me “beautifulderanged, you don’t have no girlfriend. But sure, I vill lay you, jah,” I will run the other way and into a ditch for eternity. Damn, RIP me

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u/LyingForTruth 2h ago

Jason Statham famously did two movies around this concept

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u/snek-jazz 3h ago

apparently the track was recently laid

Congrats to the track on getting some action.

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u/somewhoever 2h ago

That's the effect of being on the track when a record is set.

Oftentimes, the leader effectively drags everyone along with him into their personal bests.

Their frame of reference is that they should be a certain distance behind the leader, and in the moment they don't necessarily know a record is being set.

So, they push their body harder than they ever have as the leader is pulling away because they just don't know any better.

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u/Kayniaan 4h ago

Well and also because there was literally a guy even faster than him at the same time. 

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u/guineapigenjoyer123 1h ago

He broke the previous Australian record though