Bolt destroys 100m field, sets new WR

[Birmingham]

Tho' I'm not personally a pro, this is my event - 100m sprint. Bolt set new World Record even when jogging from 90m. For anyone who missed it, like me, you can catch it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7565572.stm

 

[dave_n]

fantastic...and he's only 21...just imagine the time he would have got if he didn't show boat for the last 10 metres.

 

[Birmingham]

well he needed to save energy for his main event - the 200.

i think we'll see him set a few new records in future when he's ready to try his best, no worries about that

 

[Cornish Steve]

Tho' I'm not personally a pro, this is my event - 100m sprint. Bolt set new World Record even when jogging from 90m. For anyone who missed it, like me, you can catch it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7565572.stm

Oh how I hate the BBC's policy. I can watch videos from almost any website - but the BBC chooses to block access to its vidoes (including the link you posted) to anyone living outside Britain. What possible justification do they have for this? It simply pushes me to other websites.

 

[downsouth]

Bar far the easiest i've ever seen a sprint race won, still dont think we'll see Michael Johnsons 200m WR tho

Bolts never goin to destroy his world record because in the normal athletic meets they get prize money for lowering the WR, so its in his best interest financially to only lower by small amounts

Best example of this is the Russian Womens Pole Vaulter, Yelena Isinbayeva, raises the WR 1cm and then stops, currently broke the record 14 times

 

[Birmingham]

i was unaware of that, steve. now that i've checked via proxy, i notice "this media is not available in your terrotory" - totally crazy stuff from the bbc!

 

[DotNetWebs]

..."this media is not available in your terrotory" - totally crazy stuff from the bbc!...

You could argue that the BBC website is 'owned' by the licence payers who all reside in the UK.

So why should UK licence payers have to pay for the additional bandwidth to provides this content to the rest of the world?

Great race BTW!

Regards

Dotty

 

[Birmingham]

bandwidth is so easy to come by these days, it shouldn't be an issue for the bbc

 

[DotNetWebs]

bandwidth is so easy to come by these days, it shouldn't be an issue for the bbc

According to Wikipedia Youtube's bandwidth cost is $1 million a day. Clearly the BBC have a lot less videos but many of it's videos are of a far higher resolution. The latest video content is being created for the iPlayer service which is VERY bandwidth intensive and has already raised complaints for some ISPs who are struggling with to deliver the content.

What would you say if your licence fee was raised in order to provide Steve and the rest of the world this service?

Regards

Dotty

 

[Birmingham]

What would you say if your licence fee was raised in order to provide Steve and the rest of the world this service?

doesn't bother me because i don't pay fees - the world will always find free ways of exploiting the powers of the internet and i will always be using them

for those non-uk peeps trying to use the bbc videos, use a free uk-based web proxy - there's plenty to choose from

 

[DotNetWebs]

...for those non-uk peeps trying to use the bbc videos, use a free uk-based web proxy - there's plenty to choose from

Good advice, especially for expats like Steve.

Regards

Dotty

 

[ThomasHardy]

Oh how I hate the BBC's policy. I can watch videos from almost any website - but the BBC chooses to block access to its vidoes (including the link you posted) to anyone living outside Britain. What possible justification do they have for this? It simply pushes me to other websites.

I can never watch anything i want from america, like catch up family guy etc.

 

[Cornish Steve]

What would you say if your licence fee was raised in order to provide Steve and the rest of the world this service

Other news sites don't pursue such a practice. Instead, they view site visitors as valuable and sell advertising and the like. I had no idea the BBC viewed its website as a private resource intended only for those who pay a TV license fee.

for those non-uk peeps trying to use the bbc videos, use a free uk-based web proxy - there's plenty to choose from

Can you explain what is a web proxy? How can I use one to view videos at the BBC website?

 

[DotNetWebs]

...sell advertising and the like...

It's the BBC. They are not allowed to sell advertising:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/

"What your licence fee provides

The BBC is paid for directly through each household TV licence. This allows it to run a wide range of popular public services for everyone, free of adverts and independent of advertisers, shareholders or political interests.

The BBC provides 8 interactive TV channels, 10 radio networks, more than 50 local TV and radio services, the BBC's website bbc.co.uk, and the on-demand TV and radio service, BBC iPlayer.

BBC World Service is funded by government grant and not the TV licence fee. Profits from separate BBC commercial services help to keep the licence fee low."

Interesting point in there about the funding of the Word Service, I hadn't realised that.

Regards

Dotty

 

[DotNetWebs]

...I had no idea the BBC viewed its website as a private resource intended only for those who pay a TV license fee...

The website itself is defiantly intended for a global audience. It is only the video streaming that restricted. And, to be honest, I am only guessing at the reasons for this restriction. It may also be to do with copyright and licensing etc.

Regards

Dotty

 

[DotNetWebs]

I can never watch anything i want from america, like catch up family guy etc.

And I can't get a Rhapsody subscription for my Squeezebox Duet because I live outside the US.

Regards

Dotty

 

[KM-Tiger]

The BBC provides .......... the on-demand TV and radio service, BBC iPlayer.

No, unfortunately the BBC only provides that service to users of certain versions of software that can be purchased only from a convicted foreign monopolist. It's as absurd as if they said you could only receive broadcast television on a <name-your-brand> television.

Further information here:

http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/80/55/

 

[DotNetWebs]

No, unfortunately the BBC only provides that service to users of certain versions of software that can be purchased only from a convicted foreign monopolist. It's as absurd as if they said you could only receive broadcast television on a <name-your-brand> television.

Further information here:

http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/80/55/

Yes I am aware of this situation but it is not quite as bad as you paint it because anybody with Flash installed can watch the "7 Day Catch Up Service". It is only the 30 Day download service that is affected.

Regards

Dotty

 

[Stephen Berry]

Meanwhile ..... back on the thread ....
the last time I saw anything like that was Ben Johnson.
What ever happened to him?

 

[Alpha]

Meanwhile ..... back on the thread ....
the last time I saw anything like that was Ben Johnson.
What ever happened to him?

He couldn't stop taking the drugs and was eventually stripped of his Olympic medals.

 

[Dawg]

Why don't they have drug taking as an Olympic sport?
The 100m line?
The spliff relay?
The Hugathon?
None of this unpleasantness about testing and cheating and lots of contenders for places on the national teams, training hard instead of mugging and burglarating.
Get Ben and Boris to do a Johnson double act and arrange it for 2012.

 

[Alpha]

Mind you to be fair to Ben Johnson he was stripped of his medals because he was the only one that admitted taking drugs.

I think there was three or four in that race that later tested positive for nandrolone however the rest had evidence that it could have been in their blood streams due to a legal supplement.

 

[estwig]

Yea but I'm faster than Usain Bolt!!!!

9:68 seconds...........He was gutted!!!!

 

[downsouth]

9.65, tightened up in the last 10m,

As i was waving goodbye to Usain!!!

 

[downsouth]

well i stand corrected, he's only gone and broke the 200m WR, now 19.30secs!!!

£$%$%$%"$% Heck thats quick

 

[tlewis]

That 200m was really impressive, the other guys were miles behind!

 

[Stephen Berry]

well i stand corrected, he's only gone and broke the 200m WR, now 19.30secs!!!

£$%$%$%"$% Heck thats quick

I don't know what all the fuss is about .... I can do 200m and I can do 19.3 seconds ........ not sure about doing the 2 at the same time though

 

[Birmingham]

the 200 was only like 1 or 2 seconds faster than johnson the previous record holder - and bolt had to try hard for this one, and i think the 100m is more competitive so i think the 100m was more impressive

 

[GaryMc]

He jogged the last 15 metres of the 100m yet he had to go eyeballs out all the way to line for the 200m. I would say that the 200m world record was a much more impressive mark given that he also knocked 3 tenths of a second off his PB. For someone that talented to have to put everything in to breaking the record shows just how good Michael Johnson was

 

[Birmingham]

i think the issue with 200m though is it's not simple running power and stamina - it's going round the bend which is technical skill that can be practiced and improved a lot upon, rather than pure natural talent like the more competitive 100m for people who just want to say "i can run faster, when we take out the bumps and grinds"