|
The Bailey–Johnson 150-metre race was a track and field event that occurred in Toronto, Ontario on Sunday, 1 June 1997. In an effort to settle the dispute regarding who was the world's fastest man, a race not sanctioned by IAAF was held in the SkyDome between 1996 Olympic 100 metre champion Donovan Bailey from Canada, and 1996 Olympic 200 metre and 400 metre champion Michael Johnson, from the United States. ==Background== The unofficial title of "world's fastest man" typically goes to the Olympic 100 metre champion. The Olympics 100-200 metre double had been achieved only four times before 1996; at Munich and Los Angeles for men and Munich and Seoul for the women. In 1996, the host of NBC's Olympics coverage Bob Costas, and others, pointed out that Johnson's gold-medal performance in the 200 m (19.32 seconds) was faster than Bailey's 100 m performance (9.84 seconds) in that 19.32 divided by two is 9.66. Bailey later dismissed Costas' comments as "a person who knew nothing about track talking about it with a lot of people listening", nonetheless, the sportscaster's remarks touched a nerve. The 200 metre time almost always yields a "faster" average speed than a 100 metre race time since the initial slow speed at the start is spread out over the longer distance. In other words, the second 100 metres is run with a "flying start", without the slow acceleration phase of the first 100 metres and without the greater than 0.10 s reaction time of the start. In fact, each 200 metre gold medalist from 1968, when fully electronic timing was introduced, to 1996 had a "faster" average speed at the Olympics, save one, yet there had been no controversy over the title of "world's fastest man" previously, until Bob Costas' remarks during the 1996 Olympics. Notably in the 1996 edition of the men's 100 metre final, after golds in 1984 and 1988, as well as a bronze in 1992, the Americans had finished out of the medals despite being the hosts. Adding insult to injury, the Canadian team anchored by Bailey also defeated the Americans in the 4 x 100 metre relay. Bailey's accomplishments in the 1996 Summer Olympics provided a source of considerable national pride to Canadians.〔(Bailey brought us together );''Toronto Star'', 12 August 1996〕 In addition to celebrating them as great sporting achievements, many in Canada also saw them as somewhat redressing Ben Johnson's positive drug test and disqualification at the 1988 Summer Olympics.〔(Ben Who? );''Toronto Star'', 4 August 1996〕〔(Time to let Ben Johnson affair fade into history );''Toronto Star'', 7 August 1996〕 Some Canadians saw the American media's promotion of Johnson into the "world's fastest man" at the expense of Bailey as an attempt to lessen the Canadian's achievements,〔(NBC's math puts Bailey faster than self );''Toronto Star'', 13 August 1996〕 reminiscent of the Ben Johnson-Carl Lewis rivalry in the 1980s, the height of which occurred at the 1987 World Championships in Rome after Ben Johnson defeated Lewis in the 100 metre final causing Lewis to begin voicing accusations that Ben Johnson was using performance-enhancing drugs, behavior which was seen as egotistical and lacking humility. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bailey–Johnson 150-metre race」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|