Thursday, November 24, 2011

Who's faster? World Records holder Usain Bolt? Or the fastest speedskater?

I'm curious to see a side-by-side race between the fastest man on land, Usain Bolt, and the fastest man on ice! Scenario %26amp; Questions:


鈾?If an Olympic-standard track was completed with one lane for Usain while parallel to his lane was an Olympic calibre ice-track of the SAME distance for both the 100m sprint and the 200m sprints, would Usain Bolt be the victor?





Given Bolt's assumed advantage in establishing speed earlier, vs. one's efforts on ice, it seems he would win easily against the speedskater in 100m, but would the 200m prove different given the skater's need to build up speed on ice?





Lastly,


鈾?Who is the world's faster man in ice-speedskating in both the 100m and 200m distances? Are his times comparable to Usain Bolt's? 鈾?I assume Short-Track speedskaters are not quite as fast as their regular speedskating counterparts?





Real stats and records please, if available!|||The shortest distance in speed skating is the 500 m because they have to build up momentum. Over 100 m Bolt would be faster than a skater.|||I wonder how fast Bolt would be on skates ?!

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|||Actually a speedskater would beat Bolt over 100m.


The fastest 100m by a skater is 9.40 seconds (Yuya Oikawa of Japan). Over 200m skaters routinely


go under 17 seconds, fastest being 16.29 by Jeremy Wotherspoon of Canada.

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