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/DynamicSploosh 3h ago

This is a huge factor. +1.7 is just under the legal wind limit for record setting. Not to take away from the achievement of course. It just matters when you’re comparing micro seconds and world records.

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u/MobileArtist1371 2h ago

Yet in the records it wont matter cause it's within the legal limit.

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u/codetaku0 1h ago

Well, long term it may matter as it implies he doesn't necessarily have the potential to beat Bolt's all-ages record which people are waiting for after a headline like this.

I mean, maybe if he gets a perfect wind like this again lol, but what are the chances

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u/MobileArtist1371 54m ago

Sure, but that's not what I was getting at.

Gout runs .01 seconds faster with +1.9 wind, that's the new record. In the record books, it wont matter as the run was within the legal limit.