Gatlin 9.76 WR

[Jennapv]

Heavily wind aided, I think, but still legal.

http://www.iaaf.org

[LHSpolevault]

Not wind aided... only 1.7m/s

http://www.iaaf.org/gp06/results/eventC ... index.html

hahah that sucks for Powell!!!!!!!

[BethelPV]

In our local newspaper today they quoted Powell as saying he will reset the World Record, and that given the right conditions feels he can run 9.60!! Pretty nuts, I would love to see him go at it with Gatlin anyday! That would be an amazing race with most likely a new WR being set

Zachmo

[rainbowgirl28]

You can watch it for free on www.wcsn.com

[Scott Go Pre]

ESPN had a little tidbit on him today. They said that there was a little problem with the timing and now Gatlin's 9.76 sec will become 9.77 sec -- to tie with the former record holder Asafa Powell.

[Scott Go Pre]

Straight from IAAF.org

Gatlin’s time corrected to 9.77 – EQUALS 100m World Record
Wednesday 17 May 2006
Monte-Carlo - The IAAF has just been informed by Tissot Timing of an error in the reading of the result recorded by Justin Gatlin (USA) in the 100m at the IAAF Super Grand Prix Meeting in Doha, Qatar on Friday 12 May 2006.

Based on his time recorded after winning the race, Gatlin ran 9.766 seconds for 100m, which was then announced as 9.76 - a new World Record for this distance.

However, according to IAAF rules, this time should have been manually rounded up to 9.77.

Therefore, Gatlin’s time will now be adjusted to 9.77, and pending ratification, will equal the previous 100m World Record of Asafa Powell (JAM) set in 2005.

Olusoji Fasuba's African record run in second place has also been corrected from 9.84 to 9.85 seconds.

[Mecham]

That would suck.

[vault3rb0y]

hah.... id be so mad. You celebrate for 4 days or so and then find you only tied it, poor guy.