What does a competitive master's all-American sprinter me think about the sprinting at the Olympics? Well, let's find out on today's rant on the movement movement the podcast where people who want to know the truth about what it takes Now to have a healthy strong body starting feet first those things at the end of your legs and where we break down the prop again To the mythology and sometimes the outright lies You may have been told about what it takes to run or walk or play or to yoga or cross or anything You like to do and to do those things enjoyably and efficiently and effectively and I say enjoyly of course I did I say every time because that's the most important thing you're not doing something you love you're not gonna keep doing it So find something you enjoy doing maybe find a friend make it even more enjoyable I'm Stephen Sash and co-founder and chief barefoot officer here at zero shoes calm and dot co dot uk and You and we call this the movement movement because we that includes you more about that in a second are creating a movement about natural Movement letting your body do what it is made to do not getting in the way of doing that and the way you can be involved It's simple go to www dot join at the movement movement calm nothing You need to join there's no secret handshake no money involved That's just the website that we got and it's where you can find all the places you can engage with us on social media All the places you can download the podcast if you want to get it somewhere else from where you got it this time And of course all the previous episodes of which there are quite a few in short If you want to be part of the tribe just subscribe and give us a thumbs up and a like and a bell icon on YouTube and do all those things that You know how to do okay, so let me turn full swing as of the time that I'm running this and just the other day No, Liles won the hundred meters and people have been asking me. What do you think? Well, I've got a couple thoughts really three the first is I find it kind of funny that maybe for actually I find it funny that Noah's going around it You know like being super super psyched about you know winning when he won by literally an inch Maybe less in fact if Omega the people who do all the timing things for the Olympics didn't deploy a new camera system That shoots 40,000 frames per second.
There's a decent chance this race would have been deemed a tie So there's that let's look at a second thing though I mean first of all the race is amazing a lot of people a bunch up at the end Which is great when I was in Berlin when you see both said the world record of 958 We're just gonna be my next point the amount of space between him and Tyson gay and then between Tyson gay and I'm pretty sure It's not a pal was so great that when I was sitting at the 70 meter mark I thought it must have been a false start because there's no way the hundred meters would be set that spread out Which brings me to you single so everyone's gonna go on and on about the time of this race It was a 9.79 for for Noah It was a 9.786 I believe doesn't really matter point is you see bolts world record 9.58 and no one is coming We're close to that in the last oh god that was 15 years ago when he set the record not even him So this is an interesting thing to ponder what happened? And another thing I'm gonna look I am not making any Assumptions I'm not making any statements. I'm not saying what I'm about to say is true. I'm literally just asking this as a question Every Olympic and world champions sprinter that I'm aware of I've seen this report as somewhere Not boy, which I had the actual stats on this to show to you or link to it has at some point tested positive You think both hasn't even though everybody else on his Jamaican team has at least all the top guys did so that's intriguing Carl Lewis There are some people who say that when he won in 88 and soul tested positive bunch of stimulants But then said he had a head cold and they went okay Ben Johnson in 88 said that he tested positive for something that he didn't like taking because he tried it wasn't a big fan of it He also claimed that there was an American who had doped him put something in his water when that person I won't mention his name was asked on a 30 by 30 episode on ESPN Did you in fact dope Ben Johnson like he claims the guy's response not on camera was maybe I did maybe I didn't Which is an interesting way to respond to a question like that Let me here's the third one that I want to highlight There are people that have analyzed Jesse Owens and look at his joint mechanics and joint angles and speed of joint movements etc And said that if he was running on a modern track surface that he'd be like second to you same bolt You know certainly running under ten seconds for the hundred and he was running on like a crappy track surface You know bring something up actually I'm gonna jump in here's the fourth thing that I should let a lot of people Love to say hey, what shoes were they wearing?
Oh boy, let me just jump to point number four or actually point three is it ain't about the shoes Even Elliot Kuchogi the guy who ran the sub to our marathon had articles that came out about him where he was quoted in the headline as saying It wasn't the shoes. It was my legs if you look for those articles You're not gonna find them anymore There may be some company that thought not a good look for them when they're claiming it was all about the shoes I will not mention that company's name, but I can't wait to ride my bikey home from work today And last but not least when it comes to the this race and how good it was or wasn't frankly in 1971 There was a guy named Delano Maryweather who's a physician He was the first black student admitted to Duke University Medical School He was the only black student in his four years that he was there He liked to go to the track and burn off steam business racism and he became a world-class printer in fact in 1971 He set the world record for the hundred-yard dash and that record still stands because after he did that they changed everything The world unfortunately didn't get to compete in the Olympics because he ended up having a hamstring injury But he ran a 9.0 hundred yards now if you know anything about sprinting you will know that equates to probably about a 9.8 Maybe 9.8 100 meters Which means Delano Maryweather in the shoes that he was wearing in 71 on the bad track surface that he was running on in 1971 Would have been I think third in this hundred meters in the personal Olympics So what's that saying about the evolution of technology let alone athletes or possibly performance enhancing substances Which could be anything from slim gyms to pop tarts to you know other things And there's actually if you haven't seen the movie bigger strong or faster find it and watch it There's one thing in the movie this very interesting and one epilogue to the movie The interesting thing is there's a sport scientist who said just imagine if you well they've actually done this But I can do this in the right order He's imagined that your livelihood I mean the future of the your financial independence for you and your family maybe even your village depending on where you came from Was dependent on you doing well in a race and you had the opportunity to do well in the race by taking some sort of drug Would you take it the answer is probably yes? What if you knew other people were taking things would you then do it? The answer is pretty much guaranteed to be yes There's a guy who I think it was from the soul of the Olympics who was part of the world anti-doping association Or at least part of the American version that kept all the samples that they took of athletes and 20 years later Tested them to see if any of them were showing up positive for things that they didn't know how to test back in 88 And he stopped after I think a hundred because everybody tested positive So this is a cat and mouse game and the cat in that equation is world anti-doping the mouse of the athletes and the people working with those athletes And the cats typically are blind deaf dumb and have no claws That's my take on those things So was it really an exciting thing to watch and was an incredible look at what technology could show about who the winner was Was there confusion about whether it's about your foot crossing line or some part of your torso crossing line and all that is all very interesting Suffice it to say I gotta just leave it at this It wasn't that exciting or interesting for me to watch because I know that everyone is comparing just you know This race to all the people in this race and not often taking the historical context and wondering what's really going on So there's more to it than that in fact You can leave comments about what you think may be going on or not going on what you thought about the race Leave comments where you can leave comments where you can find those you can do that at join the movement movement Com or ever you happen to be watching this or listening to this if they accept comments anyway That's my rant for the day.
I'm gonna go but watch back to watching things They've been really exciting like wrestling and very tense like archery. That's kind of wrapping up There's if there's watch events that you've never seen that's my only recommendation for the Olympics I went to the Atlanta Olympics and I went to a lot of events actually I even went to the trials because they were held all around Colorado for the Atlanta Olympics And I went to everything that I knew nothing about and some of the most exciting times of my life So go watch things You know nothing about think you won't be interested in and maybe you'll be surprised and happy for that suggestion Alright again go to www.jointhemovementmovement.com fine previous episodes fine place you can engage with us give us a like and a thumbs up in a Share and a five star review and hit the bell icon on YouTube and again You know the drill and that and if you have any recommendations suggestions people you want to have on the podcast with me Or if you just you know want to chat or if you think that I've got cranial rectal reorientation syndrome happy to hear all that You can send me an email. I'm at move M O V E at join the movement movement.com and until next time go out Have fun and live life feet first