Study predicts Usain Bolt would have run 100m in 9.42sec in super spikes
Data suggests Bolt would have knocked 0.16sec off record
Legend backs Jamaicans to beat Lyles in Tokyo 100m
A new scientific study has predicted that Usain Bolt would have run the 100m in 9.42sec in super spikes – an astonishing 0.16sec faster than his current world record set in 2009. But one man who is not arguing is the legendary Jamaican himself.
Bolt, who is in Tokyo to present the medals for the 100m final at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, said he was not surprised with the findings. “I fully agree with it,” he said. “Because one athlete that continued after I retired was Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and she got faster with the new spikes. I probably would have run way faster with them too.”