Olympic Games Athens 2004 - Final of mens 100 meters.
Olympic Champion - USA's Justin Gatlin wins the 100 at Athens 2004.
Look at the Olympic 100 meter mens finals from 1960 to 2000 and all the champions - fastest human beings throughout the decades!
Olympic Champion - Bullet Bob Hayes of the US winning the 100 in Tokyo 1964.
Olympic Champion - Valeri Borzov of the Soviet Union powers out of the starting blocks to win the 100 in the Munich Olympics 1972. Second fastest start time ever record in any sport - 00.11 seconds!!!
Olympic Champion - Alan Wells of Great Britain wins the 100 in Moscow 1980.
Olympic Champion - Carl Lewis of the USA wins the 100 at the Los Angeles Games in 1984.
Olympic Champion - Linford Christie of Great Britain wins the 100 in Barcelona 1992.
Olympic Champion - USA's Maurice Greene wins the 100 at Sidney, Australia 2000.
The 100 mens final at the Mexico 1968 Olympic Games. America's Jim Hines wins and set the new world record at 9.89! This race was history because it was the first Olympic finals in any sport where all the finalist were black athletes! It also was the first time that electronic timing devices and sensors were used in any sports event. Hines official time was 09.95!!! A record that stood for 15 years.
A Japanese perspective of this historic race - 1968 Mexico Olympic 100 mens meter final.
Olympic Champion - Jim Hines wins the mens 100 men final in Mexico City in 1968.
Jim Hines of the USA becomes the 1st human being to run the 100 meters under 10.0. Here he sets the world record at 9.9 seconds in the spring of 1968!
Picture of Jim Hines sets the world recond at 9.9 seconds in the 100 meters in the spring of 1968.
Armin Hary of West Germany sets the world record in the 100 meters at Zurich, Switzerland in 1960. He was the first human being to run the 100 meters in 10.0 flat! Hary has the fastest start ever record in any sport, even to this day - 00.08 seconds!!!
"Der historische Lauf" Weltrekord über 100 Meter in 10,0 Sekunden, am 21.06.1960 in Zürich Mehr nter."
Armin Hary setting the world record at the 100 meters in 10.0 flat!!!
Armin Hary winning the men's 100 meters at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
At the 1936 Berlin, Germany Olympic Games, Jesse Owen wins the 100 meters mens final in the first commercial television broadcast of any significant size. There were only a few thousand early TV sets sold in Germany and England in 1936 (non in the US or anywhere else). This broadcast was 3 years before the first TV images shown to an American public at the New York World's Fair in 1939.
Jesse Owen won the race with an incredible time for the era of 10.3 seconds! Considering the era, the track, and the sports technology at the time, Owen's winning mark was just shy of his world-record of 10.2 set earlier in 1936.
Adolf Hitler was in the stands to watch this history sports event.
Picture of Jesse Owen after setting the world record of 10.2 seconds in the 100 meters in 1936:
Pictures of Jesse Owen's history feat at the Berlin, Germany Summer Olympic Games. He won 4 gold medals in the sprint and jumping events for track & field!
Olympic Champion Jesse Owen - Fastest human in the 1st half of the 20th century!!!
Hey fellow athletes and sports fans,
All you World Cup Football and Olympic buffs like me can't wait for the "Big Show" this year to start. There is less than 10 days before the start of the Beijing Olympics. For those that know their world sports history, went it comes to the Olympic Games their are only two events that matter. Everything else is fluff and made for TV ratings.
In the Winter Olympics, the fastest man to ski from the top of the mountain to the bottom (without killing himself) wins all the fame, glory, adulation, money, and the most important prize in all of Winter Olympic sports - The gold medal for the Men's Downhill Ski Race!
In the Summer Olympics, all eyes will be set on who can run the 100 meters in the fastest time and win the ultimate prize in the Olympics (winter or summer) - The gold medal in the Men's 100 Meter Race!
Ever since the ancient Greeks and their Olympics of antiquity; the ability to run fast was, is, and always will be the essence of sports. And this has not change throughout the years, decades, and centuries. The ability to run fast is the fundamental quality that is needed in practically every sport. More so than endurance or strength.
There is no sport or athletic event more important than the Olympic Men's 100 Meter Gold Medal Race!!! This event looks very basic, but it measures the ultimate capacity that a human being can endure at it's maximum performance.
The top three favorites to win this year's Men's 100 Meter Gold Medal at the Beijing Olympics in China are the Jamaicans Bolt and Powell and the American Gay.
Here is a cool preview of the favorite to win 2008 Olympic Men's 100 Meter Gold Medal when he broke the then world-record at an international challenge meet in Athens, Greece in 2005 - Asafa Powell of Jamaica in The Final Countdown!
Photo (foto) of Asafa Powell of Jamaica:
Powell has broken the world-record in the 100 Meters twice and defeated the current world-record holder Bolt, his Jamaican teammate, last week. And he also defeated the American Gay last week as well in a different meet. Both of these events were pre-Olympics warm-up meets 2-weeks before Beijing.
Powell is the fastest human being that has ever existed on Earth!!!
