This great article computes the time Usain Bolt would have taken for his 100m dash had he not decided to celebrate towards the end of the race.
The article has an excellent plot of Bolt's speed as a function of time, and the peak speed is a phenomenal 12.5 m/s. From the data in the article, the 9.5 second barrier is not far.
On this subject, another interesting entry on Freakonomics notes that the peak speed record is now held by the 200m race. The low speed in the initial 20m of the 100m dash keeps the average low.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
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