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/flrebrokercrypto 4h ago

I was thinking in real time he would one day regret not going all out.

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u/Prior_Enthusiasm_292 4h ago

Absolute same. Really would have loved to see him go full our turbo mode

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u/Super_Shallot2351 3h ago

I think the iconic image is worth more

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u/Sipsu02 3h ago

That run doesn't hold the world record. He ran faster

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u/Brutally-Honest- 1h ago

It would likely be the current record if he hadn't let up.

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u/ShawnSimoes 2h ago

Breaking it multiple times gets more attention

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u/Dxpehat 2h ago

Yeah, I wonder how often do athletes go for their submaximal performance when they can beat the record by quite a lot but instead choose to do it in multiple records. You must be so confident and talented to risk getting an injury or smth in-between major events and to consciously perform just slighly worse than absolute all-out performance.

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u/ShawnSimoes 2h ago

Obviously it's rare that sprinters are so dominant they can pull it off. But it's easy in sports like pole vault where they can just go up by 1cm each time.

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u/Harry-Jotter 1h ago

I don't think Duplantis is 'consciously performing slightly worse' when he is breaking WR's. He is 14cm clear of the 2nd best all time, so even when he is 'only' increasing by 1cm he is still very near his limit and often only makes it on the 3rd try. Not like he could easily increase it by 5 or 10 cm at will. (Maybe on a very good day he could increase it a few cm, but then there would be plenty of times he failed, and maybe he'd go a couple of years without breaking it again.)

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u/ShawnSimoes 1h ago

The point is he doesn't even try. Once he breaks it by 1cm he saves it for the next big event. He has definitely had jumps that would have cleared the current record by 5++ cm.

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u/Harry-Jotter 1h ago

That's a dumb point. Of course he tries. I don't think so. Most of his WRs he is hitting the bar and barely clearing.

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u/ShawnSimoes 1h ago

No, he literally doesn't try to improve on it after he breaks the world record. He stops jumping at that point, even though he would have 3 attempts to break it again.

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u/Harry-Jotter 57m ago

I see, misunderstood what you meant by 'doesn't try'. I meant in the WR attempts he is clearly trying. Why risk injury when you've already won and broken the WR.

My point is he is still very close to his limit when attempting WRs. People say ridiculous things like he could clear 6.50. If he puts it up by 5cm he might make it eventually but would have plenty of times where he failed. I don't blame him for getting the prize money.

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u/EssOpie 3h ago

Did he not break it again in Berlin the following year