HOW RECORDS ARE LOST
BY THREE-EIGHTHS OF AN INCH Three-eighths of an inch is not much when you look at it, but it is enough to affect an athletic record. At the last Olympic Games, Jesse Owens, the Ohio (U.S.A.), negro sprinter, won the 100 metres in record time, and subsequently at Chicago was timed to rim 10.2 sec for the distance. On the course being surveyed, however, it was found that his claim for a world’s record could not be granted, because the course was 3-Bin short! At the Olympic Games his times were 10.2 sec in the quarter final and 10.3 sec in his heat and also in the final; but, as there was a slight following wind each time, no record was granted. Eddie Tolan still holds the Olympic record—lo.2sec.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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133HOW RECORDS ARE LOST Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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