who is the fast runner?
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The fastest runner as a person or animal or insect?\n\nAustralian tiger beetles, genus Cicindela, subgenus Rivacindela, (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) are the fastest running insects known. The fastest, Cicindela hudsoni, can run 2.5 meters per second (5.6 miles per hour).\n\nThe fastest woman on Earth, and arguably the best female athlete in the world, Marion Jones can outrun just about anyone on the track. But she wasn't able to escape the heartbreak and anger that marred her childhood.\n\nTake a look at the fastest man in the world! On September 14, U.S. runner Tim Montgomery set a new world record in the 100-meter race. Montgomery, 27, outran the old time by one-hundredth of a second.
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Don Beebe of Bills fame has a book and seminar on speed and is highly regarded, so search those names on yahoo search, good luck
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He has yet to beat a legitimate runner.  The 3yo sprinters running in the Woody Stephens have all been throwing Beyers as good as LITFs last and there are several California horses who are quite good also.
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I think you are referring to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and an English runner called Derek Redmond. He popped a hamstring in the 400 metre semifinal and his father jumped out of the stand to help him cross the finish line.\n\nRead the full story here:\nhttp://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/94\n\nI trust this is what you are looking for.
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I'm guessing it has to be from the UCLA dynasty of the late 60's.\n\nKareem was the nucleus (Lew Alcindor back then) and his other running mates: Kenny Heitz, Don Saffer, Lynn Shackleford, Jim Nielsen, and Bill Sweek.
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Is it this one by any chance???\nhttp://www.fasttrack-online.net/content.htm
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Donovan Bailey (born December 16, 1967) is a former Canadian athlete.\n\nIn June of 1997 he raced against Michael Johnson in a 150m race at Toronto's SkyDome (now Rogers Centre), in a bid to truly determine who was the world's fastest man. He won $2 million for winning that race, in which Johnson pulled up lame at the 100m mark with an injured quadricep muscle.
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If you ask me in terms of running, I would definitely say professional. In that same line, I would suggest reading the book "Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile." The book does a very good job, I thought, explaning the collegiate system, and its drawback, and makes a comparison at the end with the professional racing and training. \n\nYou can find the book at your public library, beside it's a good book to read.
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Yes, fast is a big part of it.\n\nHe is an incredible athlete.  Fast, tremendous moves.  He's a gamebreaker with his legs, but with a bone head.\n\nHe is indeed what he is.  He doesn't know how to read a defense.  He probably never will.  Even mediocre teams are beginning to figure out how to "spy" him, and prey on his tendencies.\n\nHe'll never do it, but he would be better served as a "slash" player.\n\nPeople keep waiting for the breakout.  True, you can't teach fast, but he isn't getting any better, just older.
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I just watched the entire run for the first time.  It was the greatest 2 days of my life in a long time.  Anyway... these are my favorites:\nApocalypse, Magneto, Rogue, Gambit and Quicksilver.
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Lindsey Jacobellis.  You can see the video by clicking on the video tab at the following website:\n\nhttp://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/5058592/detail.html
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The title is usually given to the world record holder of the 100 m sprint. That is now Asafa Powell of Jamaica with 9.77 seconds.
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There is no official world record for 40 yards.\n\nThe shortest distance that the IAAF, track and field's international governing body, recognizes for world-record purposes is an indoor 50 meters, or about 54 yards. It is 5.56 seconds and it was set by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 1996. There is also a world record for 60 meters -- 6.39 seconds by American Maurice Greene in 1998.\n\nBut it is another Canadian, Ben Johnson, who is believed to have run 40 yards faster than any human in history. Johnson is best known for injecting copious amounts of steroids and winning the 100 meters at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul in 9.79 seconds, only to have his gold medal and world record stripped after failing a post-race drug test.\n\nTiming officials have since broken down that famed race into 10-meter increments, and Johnson was so preposterously fast that he went through 50 meters in 5.52 seconds and 60 meters in 6.37 -- both under the current world records at those distances. He went through 40 yards that day in 4.38 seconds.\n\nHe was running in spikes . . . on a warm afternoon perfectly suited for sprinting . . . with a slight tailwind . . . with years of training from arguably track's top coach, Charlie Francis . . . with Carl Lewis and six others of the fastest men on the planet chasing him . . . with 69,000 people roaring at Seoul's Olympic Stadium . . . with hundreds of millions of people watching on TV . . . with the ultimate prize in sports, an Olympic gold medal, at stake.\n\nAnd, as we learned later, with muscles built with the assistance of the anabolic steroid stanazolol.\n\nFour-point-three-eight seconds.\n\nThen again, maybe Ben Johnson isn't the fastest 40-yard man in the world.\n\nMaybe half the NFL is faster.\n\no o o\n\nIt can be the most important few hours of a football player's career. It is the day NFL scouts come to campus to determine whether prospects have what it takes to play at the next level.\n\nPlayers are measured to the quarter-inch. They're weighed to the half-pound. They do a vertical jump and a standing broad jump. They see how many times they can bench-press 225 pounds. They do a 20-yard shuttle drill and something called a three-cone drill. They are put through a short workout specific to their position.\n\nBut it is something else that commands everyone's attention, something else that interrupts the businesslike atmosphere of players shuffling from one station to the next. Something else that causes scouts and spectators to snap to attention.\n\nThe 40-yard dash.\n\nIt is the day's shortest event, and the most critical. No other statistic carries more influence for an NFL prospect, no single number has more impact on his draft fortunes. It's not called Pro Scouting Day or Pro Prospect Day or Pro Workout Day. The sign taped to the weight-room door at San Diego State on March 19 says: "Pro Timing Day."\n\nOr as local football agent David Caravantes puts it: "There's football speed and there's 40 speed, and the scouts will all tell you they understand that and game film is the most important thing. But how many defensive backs who ran a 4.6 are left on the draft board ahead of guys who ran 4.3?\n\n"I'll give you another example. There's this DB who was originally projected as a first-rounder. But he didn't run the 40 that fast -- something like 4.6 instead of in the 4.4s -- and now they're talking about him slipping to the second round. Well, he's looking at a minimum $4 million signing bonus if he goes in the first round and only about $1.6 million if he goes in the middle of the second round.\n\n"You do the math."\n\nThe players are inside the SDSU weight room being measured and weighed. In the hallway outside are their agents, pacing. Nervously. Occasionally they'll walk outside, look up at the sky and stick out an upturned hand to feel the raindrops.\n\nThis is not good. The plan, according to t
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chase manhattan.\nhttp://www.philipdru.com/griffin_stream.html
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Since he probably has an agent/manager, you would want to go through him. \n\nStart with the office of the New York Road runners club or the NYC Marathon to get the info on the agen.\n\n\nhttp://www.nyrr.org/nyrrc/org/home.html\nhttp://www.ingnycmarathon.org/home/index.php\n\n\nYou also might try Carey Pinkowski, race director for the Chicago Marathon.\n\nhttp://www.chicagomarathon.com/
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who the hell is that?
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Jeff Larson\n\nhttp://www.chaffeybreeze.com/media/storage/paper257/news/2005/07/12/Sports/Fastest.Swimmer.In.The.Nation-961662.shtml?norewrite200606080604&sourcedomain=www.chaffeybreeze.com