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[Radagast]

How much farther is 100 meters vs 100 yards ?

[Joemailman]

100 meters is 109.361 yards.

[Radagast]

100 meters is 109.361 yards.

So U. Bolt ran the distance of 109.341 yards in 9.81 seconds ! I recall when 10 seconds flat in the 100 yd dash was world class . I wonder what he would time in the 40 yd dash !

Lightning Fast !

[Patler]

I recall when 10 seconds flat in the 100 yd dash was world class.

How old are you? Bob Hayes ran 100 yards in 9.1 seconds before he became a Cowboy in the 1960s.

[Joemailman]

How old are you? Bob Hayes ran 100 yards in 9.1 seconds before he became a Cowboy in the 1960s.

There were some winning Olympic times of 10+ since then though. That said, the winning Olympic time has been under 10 since Carl Lewis in 1984.

[Patler]

There were some winning Olympic times of 10+ since then though. That said, the winning Olympic time has been under 10 since Carl Lewis in 1984.

You are mixing 100 yard and 100 meter races. Olympics are meter races. Radagast was referring to yards. You don't see 100 yard races much anymore, but they were very common back in the '60s in HS and college. Track teams had milers, half-milers and quarter-milers back then, too. International events were metric distances for those, too.

When Bob Hayes ran 9.1 to about 9.3 or so in 100 yard races, he was at about 10.1 or so on 100 meter races.

[Radagast]

OK , we've posted about Olympic sprinting , and been corrected as well. Patler must be very proud of himself.

Yes this thread is about the Olympics , but just a quick sidebar question ? Who, rookie or veteran , is the fastest man in the NFL ?

[Patler]

OK , we've posted about Olympic sprinting , and been corrected as well. Patler must be very proud of himself.

No more so than you are embarrassed by your mistake.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I nominate Greco-Roman wrestling as the most boring event of all sports in the Olympics. It requires a much more specialized skill set (mostly upper body) than more familiar styles. Every match is like a terrible match in freestyle wrestling. I am not surprised that the Greek and Roman empires collapsed.

There is a Wisconsin kid, Jesse Thielke, who made the Greco Roman squad at 130 pounds (no speaka metric.) His ascendancy to this spot is unbelievable. He graduated from the Wisconsin Badgers squad recently, and he was certainly one of the poorer wrestlers on the team. The fans hated on him in the wrestling forums because they thought his heart wasn't into wrestling. The criticism was bullshit, his skills were just tuned more to the Greco Roman style. But the fact that a poor college wrestler elevated his skills to the point where he beat a string of Olympians within a two year period leaves me awe struck.

Tomorrow women's freestyle wrestling starts. That's better. Then men's freestyle, which all of you have been waiting for.

[Patler]

I nominate Greco-Roman wrestling as the most boring event of all sports in the Olympics. It requires a much more specialized skill set (mostly upper body) than more familiar styles. Every match is like a terrible match in freestyle wrestling. I am not surprised that the Greek and Roman empires collapsed.

There is a Wisconsin kid, Jesse Thielke, who made the Greco Roman squad at 130 pounds (no speaka metric.) His ascendancy to this spot is unbelievable. He graduated from the Wisconsin Badgers squad recently, and he was certainly one of the poorer wrestlers on the team. The fans hated on him in the wrestling forums because they thought his heart wasn't into wrestling. The criticism was bullshit, his skills were just tuned more to the Greco Roman style. But the fact that a poor college wrestler elevated his skills to the point where he beat a string of Olympians within a two year period leaves me awe struck.

Tomorrow women's freestyle wrestling starts. That's better. Then men's freestyle, which all of you have been waiting for.

There was another WI-born guy (or was it two others) in G-R who didn't do so well, wasn't there?

[Harlan Huckleby]

I don't know of any other WI wrestler in Olympics, but I could be wrong.

The rumors of the greatness of WI wrestling are exaggerated. There are about 350 kids that qualify for the NCAA wrestling tourny. Last year, 6 had WI roots. Wrestling has its passionate schools around the states, especially up nord, Stoughton, other pockets. But there isn't wrestling mania here, unless you mean Wrestle Mania! on cable TV. I grew up as a little kid in Pennsylvania where wrestling is like hockey in Canada. Every Y had Saturday wrestling for little grade schoolers. WI is no Iowa, and not even Minnesota.

There is one future WI Olympian, Alex Dieringer from Port Washington.

Once every decade we get a wrestler like Tim Krumrie in WI. And then once in a generation somebody with the greatness to actually beat Tim Krumrie in JV wrestling appears. That's Michael Jordan stuff.

[Patler]

I don't know of any other WI wrestler in Olympics, but I could be wrong.

Ben Provisor from Stevens Point.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Ben Provisor from Stevens Point.

Huh. That guy slipped through my dragnet. He didn't have a distinguished high school wrestling career, and he never wrestled in college.
But he did succeed in marrying an Olympic wrestler.

http://www.nj.com/olympics/index.ssf/2015/08/the_story_of_nj_olympic_hopeful_leigh_jaynes-provisor_will_inspire_you_politi.html

He is the son of the original keyboard player of the grassroots, the guy on the left, Dennis Provisor.

[Patler]

Huh. That guy slipped through my dragnet. He didn't have a distinguished high school wrestling career, and he never wrestled in college.
But he did succeed in marrying an Olympic wrestler.

http://www.nj.com/olympics/index.ssf/2015/08/the_story_of_nj_olympic_hopeful_leigh_jaynes-provisor_will_inspire_you_politi.html

He is the son of the original keyboard player of the grassroots, the guy on the left, Dennis Provisor.

He was 158-14 in high school, then seemed to get involved in a national development program or something.
Apparently he has had a lot of injuries.

http:/http://www.teamusa.org/usa-wre...s/ben-provisor

[Harlan Huckleby]

OK, he was pretty good. But high school wrestling is now very watered-downed. By college wrestling standards, one asks how many state championships a wrestler had in high school. I saw in one bio that Big Ben only finished 3rd, once. By college level wrestling standards, Ben was a no-count recruit.

Since around 1980 when they went to 5 divisions in WI and most states, "state champs" are as common as strippers claiming to be "working on their degree."

Jessie Thielke, the other WI kid who made Olympics, was a 4-time state champ.

Provisor was just a late bloomer, I guess.

PS. One gopher wrestler who graduated recently had SIX state championships! In South Dakota, gifted junior high kids can compete at high school level.