Ben Johnson - 9.70 w

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I seen somewhere that Ben Johnson ran 9.70 wind assisted in the 80’s just wanted to know how Charlie felt about that run and anything else bout the race that we don;t know.

Was he sore after this huge PB (albeit wind-assisted)?
Who else was In this race? Is that the second fastest 100m ever recorded? I only know of Obadele Thompson’s 9.69 being faster…

Are there any extremely fast 200m which are wind-assisted or beat the world record but never recorded

Kweli

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it was hand-timed, in Perth, Australia w/ a 3.5m/s tailwind

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If it was handtimed then should the tiem jsut be recorded as 9.7 and not 9.70?