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 Karma's Kommentary

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Well, my weekend was excellent. I hope you all had a great weekend as well.  With a choke full of sports on my plate. Track and Field and Golf my sports appetite was duely quenched. I really enjoy these 2 sports because they are truly individualistic sports where the sportsman creates their own sports situational outcome. It is simply man or woman against the odds or elements. You can't blame the equipment.. the equipment is yourself. There is no room for blaming your team mate, the referee or the fans etc.Golf: - Woods loses but the sport of golf WinsFor me the bad news Tiger Woods lost but the good news the game of golf keeps winning. I am a pure unadulterated Tiger Woods fan he like so many before him Palmer, Nicholson takes the game to an exciting level and makes it worth watching, so when Tiger loses I get a bit upset. This Sundays golf lost however was different. I also love to see my other favorite golfers Els, Mickelson duke it out to the very end. What made this weekend different and special was because of who Tiger lost to, it wasn't your usual Ernie or Phil but it was a 37 year old South Korean born player by the name of Y.E. Yang this is significant not only to show how far the game of golf has reached or come  but because Mr. Yang becomes the first Asian born player to win a PGA Major so not only is this great for the game of golf. But good for golf's Asian fan base as well. I was a bit upset that Tiger lost but we all know that Tiger is already on his way to being one of the greatest golfers of all time and will win plenty of majors in the future. Yang who is South Korean learned his skills in his native land. This to me this is just as exciting as when I see unarguably Thailand's greatest tennis superstar ever Paradorn Srichaphan win in world matches. who in his career at one time has reached to one of the top 10 tennis players in the world at one time he was ranked #9 in the world. Ironically Yang was the first Asian player to win a major but his other Korean comrade A.J. Choi. another high caliber skilled golfer was really the favorite son who was predicted to win the first major. Track and Field: - will a human ever run a 100 m in 5 seconds?The next topic the 100 meter. How fast can a human run without growing wings and literally flying? It was a big deal when the 10 second mark was shattered. I ran track in school so I know how fast this speed is. Many of you may remember who Jamaican runner Usain Bolt is  from the last summer Olympics. If you watched the Olympics he was the guy who won a gold medal in a race made it look so easy that it looked like he wasn't really even trying he had such of a great lead that at the end he actually let up in the end and was celebrating the last couple of feet or so. Well he has done it again in Berlin at the world championships, this time shattering his own world record at 9.58 seconds. I'm not sure how such a small country such as Jamaica does this and  can produce so many fast runners oppose to the major big countries USA, Germany, UK etc. Maybe the bigger countries ought to send their atheletes there to drink the water. Have the bigger countries in sports in general lost there edge or are these smaller countries just catching up? below are the 100 m statistics from 1912 to present. Will a human ever break the 9 second mark? if you read the statistical progression below it seems that they are well on their way to do this. p.s. sorry to bore you all with this but what happend this weekend in sports were a couple of unoticed milestones so I was really stoked.Gentlemen: What are your thoughts on this? Ladies: You are welcome to comment as well.

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100 METER WORLD RECORDS

Progression of the 100-meter dash world record through the years: 9.58, Usain Bolt, Jamaica, Aug. 16, 2009 9.69, Bolt, Aug. 16, 2008 9.72, Bolt, May 31, 2008 9.74, Asafa Powell, Jamaica, Sept. 9, 2007 9.77, Powell, Aug. 18, 2006 9.77, Powell, June 11, 2006 9.77, Justin Gatlin, USA, May 12, 2006 9.77, Asafa Powell, Jamaica, June 14, 2005 9.79, Maurice Greene, USA, June 16, 1999 9.84, Donovan Bailey, Canada, July 27, 1996 9.85, Leroy Burrell, USA, July 6, 1994 9.86, Carl Lewis, USA, Aug. 25, 1991 9.90, Burrell, June 14, 1991 9.92, Lewis, Sept. 24, 1988 9.93, Calvin Smith, USA, July 3, 1983 9.95, Jim Hines, USA, Oct. 14, 1968Before electronic timing 9.99, Hines, June 20, 1968 10.0, Armin Hary, W. Germany, June 21, 1960 10.1, Willie Williams, USA, Aug. 3, 1956 10.2, Jesse Owens, USA, June 20, 1936 10.3, Percy Williams, Canada, Aug. 9, 1930 10.4, Charles Paddock, USA, April 23, 1921 10.6, Donald Lippincott, USA, July 6, 1912stats were taken from USA today sports

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Bolt's run was pretty f**king incredible !!

There's no way a non modified human is ever going to run 100 m in 5 seconds. I think a better question is will anyone ever do it in 9 seconds, and even then I'm doubtful.

GNC go go....lol.....

i remeber a time when scientest said it was not possible for a human to break the 4 minute time in the mile. its done all the time now...

if i live long enough to see a human to do 5 sec in the 100m it will be amazing. wonder how many mph that would equal to??

great journal, not boring at all, thanks for your research and comments :-)

if i run that fast.. i save lots of $ from gasoline!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

@CiaranM

what amazes me about bolt he runs at this speed and makes it look like he's not even trying. I used to run track and he runs pretty dayum fast..when I saw him run at the last Olympics and he just pulled up at the end. the other runners didn't even know what hit em'

@Neutron

I agree that 5 sec does seem pretty impossible I gave it that heading just to suck you into reading it I C it worked..lol

but realistically 8 seconds or even 7 + seconds maybe but of course not 5 secs.

@Benny

hey benny thx for replying sorry no soccer photos...lol...I hope you enjoyed your weekend )

@trocks69

Yes trocks an English cat by the name of roger banister it's sir roger banister now ran the 4 minute mile. not sure how many miles per hour it would be to equal a 5 second run on the 100m but I believe the human body can be pushed to do incredible things naturally if trained right bolt is living proof of this

@fontok

thanks fontok just a couple of unnoticed feats in sports this weekend that really got my attention a got me really stoked )

next week we hear he tested positive on doping....

@smskun

love that's a wild way to save gas..but i'm sure you will be buying a lot of pair of extra shoes. but the question is how fast can a lady run in pumps?? )

@wicked

I sure hope not mate, but yea that is a problem with some sport today even when someone honestly does anything that is a great human accomplishment their is that question in the back of fans minds.

just as the manual timing vs the electronic timing the drug tests of today are down to a science and very sensitive..because of the ben johnson's etc. the Olympics has had pie thrown on their face much too often.

bolt is from an island so he could be using something that is herbal or a local root which would be natural and not a banned substance.. who knows and no proof. so thats not fair to say....

just as CiaranM said the "run was pretty f**king incredible !!"