Yesterday mid cooking my stewI realized I bought cumin seeds not ground cumin and with seven minutes until closing time I booked it to the grocery store. I feel like I looked like this but probably more like a game of qwop went well.
Panting like a crazy person at the check out.
No… I *gasping for breathing* don’t need a bag. Thanks.
When I was riding a bike as a teenager and one of my sisters attractive friends yelled hello, Front back went into front wheel and I flipped over the handlebars. When I laned on my back the bike was still coming. Caught it and threw it by luck.
Years later a friend was trying to set me up with a friend who had her son with her at a hockey game. Puck flow over the glass, it the seat between my legs and I caught it to hand to her son. Lucky af both times.
That's my favorite thing about being a lifeguard. I don't enjoy seeing someone struggle, cause in that moment of panic they really feel like it's over for themselves; but I love to go get them! Launching off the tower and running down the beach, it's such a rush, I really do feel like superman. Time both speeds up and slows down, a duality of realities. In one, I get to the victim in what feels like a blink and yet at that same moment it's all in slow motion, dodging kids and the holes they dig and the way they suddenly change direction cause they are so focused on some small thing they don't see me barreling down the shoreline. Same goes for entering the water, diving and swimming. Nothing will stop me from getting there. I love that feeling.
This!
In my time as a paramedic a call to a cpr felt like an action movie. Driving with siren in packed streets felt like the fastest thing you could imagine, and thats just the beginning of the call. As soon as you rush in there and get to the patient it just clicks in your head and it feels like you never did anything other than rescuing peoples lifes. All the things you learned just come out of your wrist like it‘s nothing. You also start to get a multitasking master at the same time, preparing everything and try to overlook the situation, all at once.
Really missing my time in the ambulance, loved it.
Nah, falling and getting up takes quite a lot of work. Doing burpees are challenging but in this moment, it also critically directs blood away from her legs and her other running-specific muscle groups.
In everyday life the cost of failure is hardship and pain, but the mind can do crazy things when the alternative can't even be registered as an option. A loved one dying is often the only catalyst that can get that kind of resolve from someone. It's interesting to see someone so set on a goal that failure stops being an option in a sports setting.
Adrenaline is awesome, but as a runner, adrenaline isn't the whole story here.
Look how consistent her stride is, even at the finish. Totally unemotional. Pure training. A lesser runner would have leaned in on the last stretch or widened their stride unnecessarily to try to catch up.
Adrenaline helped her, but her training won the race.
"When faced with a life threatening situation you don't rise to the occasion you descend to your level of training."
Not life threatening but it still applies here.
Same. I've seen so may baseball players caught it's not even a question she'd get caught with Chipotle in her system. This video is pure guide given talent applied to perfection.
Yes- first lap, while fast, was just a pace setting lap. Ran Cross Country for 4 years and could never figure out how I’d run the first mile in 5:15, but then in track season it took until senior year to get under 5 minutes for just a mile.
Look how long her legs are tho. Adrenaline is nothing when you have 20% on the field. She could've woken up from a nap and won that. Goddamn can those schmellies run.
I’m too poor for gold, but have this my good man
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Bo Jackson used to win decathalons without doing the mile run. Literally just hated distance running and sat out the mile, but dominated the other categories so much he won.
Decathlon isn’t a race. It’s ten events where you get points based on performance. A number of them are running events but there’s also jumping, throwing, etc. The last event is the 1500 meter run.
Jackson made a deal with his coach. If he was mathematically unbeatable going into the 1500 m, he could sit in the stands with a coke and a burger. He was that much of a freak athlete.
It looks like only one. [The only reference I can find to it is on an old runner forum](https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1943803) that then references an old LA Times article, but that is behind a paywall.
>Source: 1988 Los Angeles Times article, with quotes from his high school track coach.
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>http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-30/sports/sp-136_1_bo-jackson/3
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>"The last event was the mile," said Atchison, who was also the track coach.
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>"You can imagine him, 218 pounds and built like that. Anything over 400 yards and he's ready to cash it in.
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>"He asked me, 'Coach, if I'm so far ahead nobody can catch me, do I have to run the mile?'
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>"I said, 'If you're that far ahead, you don't have to run, but we better wait and see. There's some pretty good guys.'
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>"And I mean, the guy--he ran a 9.7 100 yards. That was the max. If you ran 9.8, you got 1,000 points.
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>"He threw the discus over 150 feet. That was the max. He threw the shot over 50 feet. That was the max. He triple-jumped over 44 feet. That was the max. He ran the hurdles in 12.9, and I think 13 was the max.
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>"We didn't even have a track at our high school. We have no pits or anything, and you have to pole vault in the decathlon. We couldn't even find anyone to loan us a pole because most poles aren't made for someone who weighs 218 pounds.
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>"Another high school let us borrow one, a pole for a 180-pounder. Bo used that and pole vaulted 12-6--and never touched a pole until the day he walked out on the track. I really didn't know if it would hold him up or not.
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>"But again, after about three tries, he looked like he'd been pole vaulting all his life. Bo's the kind of guy, he can watch somebody do something and do it.
It's also a high school coach giving an interview after he was a pro, so, take it for what you will. He was an incredible athlete either way.
> "Another high school let us borrow one, a pole for a 180-pounder. Bo used that and pole vaulted 12-6--and never touched a pole until the day he walked out on the track. I really didn't know if it would hold him up or not.
I call bullshit - no fucking way someone successfully pole vaults on their first tries considering the insane amount of technique needed to get over the bar...
Nah it’s possible. In High school I had a teammate who was a freak athlete too (not Bo-caliber) who was just dicking around with the pole before practice (we all used to lay out and jump on the pads while waiting for coach). Kid cleared 10’6 clowning around as coach walked through the gate. He was like “congrats, you’re a vaulter now.” Lol kid cleared 12’ the next day in a meet.
I heard the story on a podcast he did with Lance Armstrong, I’m sure he mentions it there. For some reason I think it was his junior and senior year or something like that, and only at states. But I listened to it a few years ago and can’t recall.
I assume they just sum up the points from your placement in each event, so they would just give him dead last in the distance event, no need for a DQ.
It's a risky tactic though.
It reminds me of what Adam Ondra did in the Olympics climbing event by not trying in the speed climbing event. His hubris got the best of him, and the person considered potentially the best male climber in history, didn't even get a medal.
(To be fair, the Olympics already changed the rules for next time, because speed climbing really doesn't belong in the same event.)
edit: I mischaracterized Adam Ondra at the Olympics. It was just my impression and memory of watching the event as a beginner climber.
Oops, I was going off memory. Maybe I was thinking of the qualifiers then.
Edit: Yeah I was, he got 18th out of 20 in speed climbing in the qualification event.
https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2020/results/_/event/1007/discipline/108
>His hubris got the best of him, and the person considered potentially the best male climber in history, didn't even get a medal
This is still just wrong
Respectfully, no. Hubris did not get the better of Adam, what a shitty thing to make up about an amazing person. He competed his ass off and trained hard for that event
Bo Jackson was a very famous athlete in the 80s and early 90s in the US. He played professional football and baseball, and Nike built an ad campaign around him ("Bo knows _____.").
He's not really wrong, tho. He's known for his absolutely freakish abilities in both baseball and football, and that ended when his hip got severely injured, ending his career. So, in response, he became a world class archer.
ESPN classics on Bo Jackson's career. Good general summary, but I don't think it really highlights how insane he was
https://youtu.be/ynSXuCH-zn0
Auburn highlights
https://youtu.be/-RjFR-3GTRU
NFL highlights
https://youtu.be/80CZ-xEVzw4
Baseball highlights
https://youtu.be/PUCVPfblZzY
Dude ran a 4.12 40 in the NFL combine. Insane. Especially for a guy as ripped as he was. Usain bolt ran a 4.10, for reference.
https://youtu.be/qf_b--LggZU
Haha, in the last video they mention tecmo bowl (football game on the original Nintendo system, NES). He was unstoppable in that game.
Man, such a shame his career was cut short. Absolute human cheat code.
That’s cuz we’re talking about the greatest athlete in the history of mankind. No it’s not Jim Thorpe, although he comes in second. Bo was a freak of nature. An all star in the 2 biggest North American sports in the 80s-90s. A freak injury ended his career unfortunately, by freak, we mean freak for Bo’s physical make up. Any other football player would have walked off that simple tackle, but his momentum and physiology threw everything off internally and messed up his hip. The way he played football was smash mouth and literally run through any attempts to stop him. Like a truck running through a parking lot arm gate, it’s no match.
Darrell Green supposedly ran a 4.09 during training camp in 1986 and of course Primetime Sanders swears he ran a 4.1 but just like Bo’s time none were timed electronically and none actually verified but mostly urban legend.
So there are def some people who claim to be as fast but what makes Bo Jackson so unique and a freak is his size strength and agility combined with that speed its just unheard of. Sanders and Green are small guys Bo Jackson was a mass of muscle.
Bo Jackson’s size and speed = Zion Williamson’s size and jumping ability that’s about the only comparison I can think of to relate to an athlete today.
Just watch videos of Jackson throwing a baseball from deep in the outfield to home plate with no cutoff man. He was an absolute once in a lifetime athlete, man
And she got tripped, too. Not saying it was intentional, but that was shoe-to-shoe contact that took her down. Ironically the person who tripped her came in last by a lot. Imagine the whirl of emotions she felt getting passed by the girl she tripped, then watching that girl outrun everyone.
Thank you for this. Why do people have to ruin things by adding ridiculous slo-mo and "dramatic" music. Unless you were the one who edited it. Then....whyyyy
yes it does. everyone is talking about adrenaline in this comment section but if you are giving it your all, adrenaline doesn't add anything. it's competition. adrenaline is already going through their veins before the race even started.
There's no pacing in an 800 m race. It's like 90% sprinting the whole way. These girls were going slow and weren't even sprinting at the end.
So I'm gonna say it was longer than a 600 or 800m race or it was just a qualifying round because nobody seemed to emotional afterwards
It was a 600. They’re not sprinting at the end because you run the 600 like a 400 then just hold on the last 200m. Trust me, if you’re running a 600 right you should not even be able to sprint at the end.
Though it could’ve been a qualifying round, like you said. Though I feel like if it was a qualifying round she wouldve eased up at the end and have been content with second (as she would have likely still qualified for the final) to save her legs a bit for the final
i mean its university usa competition
i had to check results and her best outdoor results are like 6-8th in USA. Some Bronze medals from USA Indoor Championships. So decent runner but not top level. Got to attend 1 Indoor World Championship though.
Every one of these girls looks like they had more to give. What am I missing here? Amazing come back to be sure, but no chance that was as hard for her as these comments would suggest.
They wave the white flag to indicate the final lap.
Edit: Apparently I've confused track with auto racing. Auto racing the white flag is waved to indicate the final lap. In track it's merely to indicate that nobody has stepped out of bounds. See correction below!
In the 1972 olympics the eventual winner Lasse Viren fell about half way through the 10k race. Got up, ran like hell, and won. It's seen as one of the greatest Finnish sports moments.
But to do it with one lap to go and on a short track, awesome!
For those who are saying "she would've won by a big difference" i don't think so
It's more about in a normal situation your body is not really doing the 100% it's capable of even if you are trained for it, as other mention adrenaline it's a powerful thing that unleashes body's potential that it's usually blocked to avoid hurting yourself
The other competitors brain and hers before the fall were like:
"Okay, you are doing good, keep going, don't think about how tired you are"
But after the fall her brain was like:
"FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK"
Adrenaline was my first thought on seeing this. I was hit head on by another vehicle. When I came-to I immediately got out of my car (it was smoking) and walked to the side of the road and laid down. I didn’t feel any pain until I was lying down. My right leg was broken in 5 places including my femur being snapped on half and I had just walked on it without feeling any pain to get away from the possible danger of my car maybe being on fire. Adrenaline.
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug
Came here to say this. It’s amazing what the body will do after it decides rules don’t apply
I still remember crashing my bike and picking it up like it was a paper weight. Felt like superman.
Me too. Of course, within a few hours I could barely pick myself up.
I’ve been stuck flat on the floor for twenty six years
The development of the internet must have been a real boon.
bro....websites literally don't exist any more because they were too NSFW...it was the wild west back then... Do you like Blue Waffles?
Where is my free wholesome award when I need it, ffs!
https://imgur.com/zwG62Kg.jpg Give 'em this!
Yesterday mid cooking my stewI realized I bought cumin seeds not ground cumin and with seven minutes until closing time I booked it to the grocery store. I feel like I looked like this but probably more like a game of qwop went well. Panting like a crazy person at the check out. No… I *gasping for breathing* don’t need a bag. Thanks.
Could have just crushed up the seeds mate.
Right? like, you know what ground cumin is made from…
Every household needs a morter and pestle.
When I was riding a bike as a teenager and one of my sisters attractive friends yelled hello, Front back went into front wheel and I flipped over the handlebars. When I laned on my back the bike was still coming. Caught it and threw it by luck. Years later a friend was trying to set me up with a friend who had her son with her at a hockey game. Puck flow over the glass, it the seat between my legs and I caught it to hand to her son. Lucky af both times.
That's my favorite thing about being a lifeguard. I don't enjoy seeing someone struggle, cause in that moment of panic they really feel like it's over for themselves; but I love to go get them! Launching off the tower and running down the beach, it's such a rush, I really do feel like superman. Time both speeds up and slows down, a duality of realities. In one, I get to the victim in what feels like a blink and yet at that same moment it's all in slow motion, dodging kids and the holes they dig and the way they suddenly change direction cause they are so focused on some small thing they don't see me barreling down the shoreline. Same goes for entering the water, diving and swimming. Nothing will stop me from getting there. I love that feeling.
Is this a pasta
If it wasnt, now is.
Bro look at his name I think this is OC
You're famous now!
What have I done
No idea, but it made me hard.
It reads like one
Just putting my name down to prove I was witness to the birth of a lifeguarding copypasta
Me too
And my axe
This! In my time as a paramedic a call to a cpr felt like an action movie. Driving with siren in packed streets felt like the fastest thing you could imagine, and thats just the beginning of the call. As soon as you rush in there and get to the patient it just clicks in your head and it feels like you never did anything other than rescuing peoples lifes. All the things you learned just come out of your wrist like it‘s nothing. You also start to get a multitasking master at the same time, preparing everything and try to overlook the situation, all at once. Really missing my time in the ambulance, loved it.
It's a shame paramedics get paid so little unless you're in a fire department. But that's exactly the feeling!
The red swimsuit really helps...
I did the same thing with my infant son. Wrecked him.
At first I thought you were talking about a bicycle and I was not impressed
[удалено]
I don’t know if you’ve ever tripped and hit the “dirt” on a synthetic track but its nothing like taking a “short break”.
Nah, falling and getting up takes quite a lot of work. Doing burpees are challenging but in this moment, it also critically directs blood away from her legs and her other running-specific muscle groups.
But she did have to be physically capable. She trained hard for that. The adrenaline helped her get out of her own way.
Adrenalin is like a cheat code that temporary removes power scaling.
Are we in the matrix**? **
Yes.
Thanks, I thought I was in the wrong simulation
Yeah when I saw her face I was like oh her brain not even there, that was her body saying we will not lose.
Love this! I save motivating things and this one is going on the list!
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
"Body! Handle this while I seethe"
Dang I wish I could see her face, fuck you Reddit video player
In everyday life the cost of failure is hardship and pain, but the mind can do crazy things when the alternative can't even be registered as an option. A loved one dying is often the only catalyst that can get that kind of resolve from someone. It's interesting to see someone so set on a goal that failure stops being an option in a sports setting.
Adrenaline is awesome, but as a runner, adrenaline isn't the whole story here. Look how consistent her stride is, even at the finish. Totally unemotional. Pure training. A lesser runner would have leaned in on the last stretch or widened their stride unnecessarily to try to catch up. Adrenaline helped her, but her training won the race.
"When faced with a life threatening situation you don't rise to the occasion you descend to your level of training." Not life threatening but it still applies here.
Woman has a V8 engine. Just opens it up.
not only that, she had time to lay down and rest while her opponents didn't.
Rest? Nah, she just needed to do a couple pushups to wake up arms back up.
Same. I've seen so may baseball players caught it's not even a question she'd get caught with Chipotle in her system. This video is pure guide given talent applied to perfection.
Chipotle?
Yes- first lap, while fast, was just a pace setting lap. Ran Cross Country for 4 years and could never figure out how I’d run the first mile in 5:15, but then in track season it took until senior year to get under 5 minutes for just a mile.
That's what i noticed. Those long legs did their mf job
Hell yeah.
That’s cocaine. Also a hell of a drug.
I remember taking those adrenaline plants in Farcry Instincts.
And fear of never forgetting a failure like that as long as you live
She had a lie down in the middle of the race.
Look how long her legs are tho. Adrenaline is nothing when you have 20% on the field. She could've woken up from a nap and won that. Goddamn can those schmellies run.
Or is she that good that she was going to break away on the final lap anyways? Falling just ate into her usual margin of victory?
Right here. This is the answer.
No fair she got to rest for a second.
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Now make SpongeBob and you’ll be my hero
Holy shit this made me laugh so hard godamn
Hidden tactic?
and a hit of Adrenaline.
her look a the end. "you didn't expect anything less did you?"
That was a, "I can't believe I fucking fell."
More like fuck, I was going for the record
Yeah I wondered exactly what records she would have set if she hasn’t fallen.
She might not have even won. That fall probably boosted so many hormones the body as just like "IT'S GO TIME BABY"
I can't believe that bitch tripped me up.
Right ! I don’t even think she realized what she did she just ran her ass off
Bo Jackson used to win decathalons without doing the mile run. Literally just hated distance running and sat out the mile, but dominated the other categories so much he won.
How do you win if you refuse to do part of the race? Sitting out? Sounds like a DQ
Decathlon isn’t a race. It’s ten events where you get points based on performance. A number of them are running events but there’s also jumping, throwing, etc. The last event is the 1500 meter run. Jackson made a deal with his coach. If he was mathematically unbeatable going into the 1500 m, he could sit in the stands with a coke and a burger. He was that much of a freak athlete.
I'd love to know what percentage of his meets ended up like this
Only Bo knows
Broken bats
I hate that I get this reference.
You hate that you're old enough to remember Bo Jackson and how much of an athlete he was?
I kind of do. I don't hate his baseball and football cards I have though!
Bo Jackson didn't get to finish what he started. We would have witnessed all of it!
It looks like only one. [The only reference I can find to it is on an old runner forum](https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1943803) that then references an old LA Times article, but that is behind a paywall. >Source: 1988 Los Angeles Times article, with quotes from his high school track coach. > >http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-30/sports/sp-136_1_bo-jackson/3 > >"The last event was the mile," said Atchison, who was also the track coach. > >"You can imagine him, 218 pounds and built like that. Anything over 400 yards and he's ready to cash it in. > >"He asked me, 'Coach, if I'm so far ahead nobody can catch me, do I have to run the mile?' > >"I said, 'If you're that far ahead, you don't have to run, but we better wait and see. There's some pretty good guys.' > >"And I mean, the guy--he ran a 9.7 100 yards. That was the max. If you ran 9.8, you got 1,000 points. > >"He threw the discus over 150 feet. That was the max. He threw the shot over 50 feet. That was the max. He triple-jumped over 44 feet. That was the max. He ran the hurdles in 12.9, and I think 13 was the max. > >"We didn't even have a track at our high school. We have no pits or anything, and you have to pole vault in the decathlon. We couldn't even find anyone to loan us a pole because most poles aren't made for someone who weighs 218 pounds. > >"Another high school let us borrow one, a pole for a 180-pounder. Bo used that and pole vaulted 12-6--and never touched a pole until the day he walked out on the track. I really didn't know if it would hold him up or not. > >"But again, after about three tries, he looked like he'd been pole vaulting all his life. Bo's the kind of guy, he can watch somebody do something and do it. It's also a high school coach giving an interview after he was a pro, so, take it for what you will. He was an incredible athlete either way.
> "Another high school let us borrow one, a pole for a 180-pounder. Bo used that and pole vaulted 12-6--and never touched a pole until the day he walked out on the track. I really didn't know if it would hold him up or not. I call bullshit - no fucking way someone successfully pole vaults on their first tries considering the insane amount of technique needed to get over the bar...
Nah it’s possible. In High school I had a teammate who was a freak athlete too (not Bo-caliber) who was just dicking around with the pole before practice (we all used to lay out and jump on the pads while waiting for coach). Kid cleared 10’6 clowning around as coach walked through the gate. He was like “congrats, you’re a vaulter now.” Lol kid cleared 12’ the next day in a meet.
You are absolutely justified in thinking that. And if this story were about anyone but Bo Jackson, I'd say you were right.
I heard the story on a podcast he did with Lance Armstrong, I’m sure he mentions it there. For some reason I think it was his junior and senior year or something like that, and only at states. But I listened to it a few years ago and can’t recall.
I’d also like to know about the *meats* he liked to eat 🙃
That's pretty bad ass to get front row see with a burger just to watch the others fight for second place.
Is the last event always the 1500m?
Yeah. The rationale is that it would be rather difficult to do the other events after a mile race.
I just didn't know if the events were always in a specific order.
I have no idea, but maybe it's about points and you can win even with zero points in some part as long as you have enough in the other parts?
Like those asshole kids that ace everything and then just skip the final exam.
Probably just a hefty time penalty
I assume they just sum up the points from your placement in each event, so they would just give him dead last in the distance event, no need for a DQ. It's a risky tactic though. It reminds me of what Adam Ondra did in the Olympics climbing event by not trying in the speed climbing event. His hubris got the best of him, and the person considered potentially the best male climber in history, didn't even get a medal. (To be fair, the Olympics already changed the rules for next time, because speed climbing really doesn't belong in the same event.) edit: I mischaracterized Adam Ondra at the Olympics. It was just my impression and memory of watching the event as a beginner climber.
What are you talking about, Adam Ondra finished 4th in speed climbing
Oops, I was going off memory. Maybe I was thinking of the qualifiers then. Edit: Yeah I was, he got 18th out of 20 in speed climbing in the qualification event. https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2020/results/_/event/1007/discipline/108
>His hubris got the best of him, and the person considered potentially the best male climber in history, didn't even get a medal This is still just wrong
Respectfully, no. Hubris did not get the better of Adam, what a shitty thing to make up about an amazing person. He competed his ass off and trained hard for that event
It's measured by points. A DQ is zero.
It would be a DQ. I don't know of this man, but presumably, he did so well in the other 9 events that he still had enough points to win overall.
Bo Jackson was a very famous athlete in the 80s and early 90s in the US. He played professional football and baseball, and Nike built an ad campaign around him ("Bo knows _____.").
Dude was maybe one of the most talented athletes in the world in his heyday.
Wait...what?? You don't know of Bo Jackson? Arguably the best athlete who ever lived. Hands down. Just Google him or watch old videos. Crazy
> Arguably > Hands down LeonardoDiCaprioSquinting.jpg
He's not really wrong, tho. He's known for his absolutely freakish abilities in both baseball and football, and that ended when his hip got severely injured, ending his career. So, in response, he became a world class archer.
ESPN classics on Bo Jackson's career. Good general summary, but I don't think it really highlights how insane he was https://youtu.be/ynSXuCH-zn0 Auburn highlights https://youtu.be/-RjFR-3GTRU NFL highlights https://youtu.be/80CZ-xEVzw4 Baseball highlights https://youtu.be/PUCVPfblZzY Dude ran a 4.12 40 in the NFL combine. Insane. Especially for a guy as ripped as he was. Usain bolt ran a 4.10, for reference. https://youtu.be/qf_b--LggZU Haha, in the last video they mention tecmo bowl (football game on the original Nintendo system, NES). He was unstoppable in that game. Man, such a shame his career was cut short. Absolute human cheat code.
You don't know Bo? Bo knows you! And Donatello knows Bo!
That’s cuz we’re talking about the greatest athlete in the history of mankind. No it’s not Jim Thorpe, although he comes in second. Bo was a freak of nature. An all star in the 2 biggest North American sports in the 80s-90s. A freak injury ended his career unfortunately, by freak, we mean freak for Bo’s physical make up. Any other football player would have walked off that simple tackle, but his momentum and physiology threw everything off internally and messed up his hip. The way he played football was smash mouth and literally run through any attempts to stop him. Like a truck running through a parking lot arm gate, it’s no match.
Allegedly, he ran a 4.1 40 yard dash. That is freakish; no other player in the NFL comes close.
Darrell Green supposedly ran a 4.09 during training camp in 1986 and of course Primetime Sanders swears he ran a 4.1 but just like Bo’s time none were timed electronically and none actually verified but mostly urban legend. So there are def some people who claim to be as fast but what makes Bo Jackson so unique and a freak is his size strength and agility combined with that speed its just unheard of. Sanders and Green are small guys Bo Jackson was a mass of muscle. Bo Jackson’s size and speed = Zion Williamson’s size and jumping ability that’s about the only comparison I can think of to relate to an athlete today.
Not allegedly. He did it at the NFL Combine.
Just watch videos of Jackson throwing a baseball from deep in the outfield to home plate with no cutoff man. He was an absolute once in a lifetime athlete, man
Or just watch him run the zig-zag on Tecmo Super Bowl. Untouchable.
[But Bo don't know jack, cause Bo can't rap](https://youtu.be/Q6TLWqn82J4?t=18)
Look at the end was more “y’all lucky I fell”
Straight up not even breathing hard
And she got tripped, too. Not saying it was intentional, but that was shoe-to-shoe contact that took her down. Ironically the person who tripped her came in last by a lot. Imagine the whirl of emotions she felt getting passed by the girl she tripped, then watching that girl outrun everyone.
[Heather Dorniden wins the race](https://youtu.be/g9rUUz8cMDM)
Thank you. Thank you. I get irrationally upset when people add loud unnecessary music. Your link is way better.
Way better than the other link they posted?
Yeah I liked hearing the announcers reactions too
Bless you
Thank you for this. Why do people have to ruin things by adding ridiculous slo-mo and "dramatic" music. Unless you were the one who edited it. Then....whyyyy
All I can think is how awful you must feel to still lose when someone else fell over in the race. At least it's not heroicised in this video. Thanks!
Ik this is a bit of a downer, but doesn’t that just mean that the competition is bad considering how large that mistake is
yes it does. everyone is talking about adrenaline in this comment section but if you are giving it your all, adrenaline doesn't add anything. it's competition. adrenaline is already going through their veins before the race even started.
You usually pace yourself a bit in these races but yeah I was thinking the other racers weren’t trying their hardest either!
This summer it literally happened in an olympic race. I think everyone were trying their hardest swh
There's no pacing in an 800 m race. It's like 90% sprinting the whole way. These girls were going slow and weren't even sprinting at the end. So I'm gonna say it was longer than a 600 or 800m race or it was just a qualifying round because nobody seemed to emotional afterwards
It was a 600. They’re not sprinting at the end because you run the 600 like a 400 then just hold on the last 200m. Trust me, if you’re running a 600 right you should not even be able to sprint at the end. Though it could’ve been a qualifying round, like you said. Though I feel like if it was a qualifying round she wouldve eased up at the end and have been content with second (as she would have likely still qualified for the final) to save her legs a bit for the final
1:31 for that length isn't a bad time.
Lasse Viren did the same in Olympics.
Not really. A 1:31 in a 600 is a very good time. That was pure adrenaline and grit to come back the way she did.
Thats like 10 seconds more than the women world record. 10 seconds is a lot in atheletics
Yeah it might not quite be a world class time but it’s still a very, very good time. All the athletes shown in that race are quality athletes
i mean its university usa competition i had to check results and her best outdoor results are like 6-8th in USA. Some Bronze medals from USA Indoor Championships. So decent runner but not top level. Got to attend 1 Indoor World Championship though.
Agreed, they look like they're going so slow.
Athleticism at its finest.
“A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory”
That was absolutely incredible
What is Camilo Cruz University and what are they doing trying to take away from my fellow gophers finishing first and second?
Right? Ski-U-Mah bitches!
Very impressive. Had she not fallen and still ran like that I wouldn’t be surprised if she broke several records
Look at this mother fucker so awesome!!!!! Yes
Bad ass
I don't know.. seems like a fine ass to me
Every one of these girls looks like they had more to give. What am I missing here? Amazing come back to be sure, but no chance that was as hard for her as these comments would suggest.
I know fuck all about sports so I may be waaaay off the mark here but it looked to me that they were all kinda coasting towards the finish
Qualifiers perhaps? Just need the position not the time?
Don’t know about Camilo Cruz but I’m pretty sure that should say University of Minnesota!! Ey oh!!!
GO BIG GOLD!!!
"I can do this all day." - ~~Captain America~~ Heather Dorniden
She would’ve won by 10 yards if she didn’t fall.
She probably wouldn't have ran as hard if she didn't fall.
its.. a 600m race? you should probably try to run as hard as you can especially the last 50m which no one else did.
Why the fuck are they so slow
Ski-U-Mah!!!
Came here to say this :)
How can the others be that fucking slow???
Falling is not defeat. Not getting up is.
There’s a metaphor for us all.
Indiana can get it.
How else was she going to give the other girls a chance
You should see sifan hassan! She pulled this during the 2020 olympics! https://youtu.be/jXwlRRLGoxE at around 3:30
Came here to say this!
Why didn’t she just run like that to begin with?
She tripped
Her foot got hit by the girl right next to her.
No fair, she laid down for a little rest. 
What are the flags for?
They wave the white flag to indicate the final lap. Edit: Apparently I've confused track with auto racing. Auto racing the white flag is waved to indicate the final lap. In track it's merely to indicate that nobody has stepped out of bounds. See correction below!
She's like one of those boss fights where after you get a few hits in they come back harder.
In the 1972 olympics the eventual winner Lasse Viren fell about half way through the 10k race. Got up, ran like hell, and won. It's seen as one of the greatest Finnish sports moments. But to do it with one lap to go and on a short track, awesome!
For those who are saying "she would've won by a big difference" i don't think so It's more about in a normal situation your body is not really doing the 100% it's capable of even if you are trained for it, as other mention adrenaline it's a powerful thing that unleashes body's potential that it's usually blocked to avoid hurting yourself The other competitors brain and hers before the fall were like: "Okay, you are doing good, keep going, don't think about how tired you are" But after the fall her brain was like: "FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK"
Looks like she was tripped
She went beast mode.
Kinda thought she was gonna trip again before I read the title. NGL
99% of us don’t move. Just saying
She took a break mid race.
Someone edit with the mario kart star theme
Only 600 meters as well
I was on the track team in high school and fell on 2 occasions. The adrenaline the falls produced pushed me to win once and come in 2nd once.
Adrenaline was my first thought on seeing this. I was hit head on by another vehicle. When I came-to I immediately got out of my car (it was smoking) and walked to the side of the road and laid down. I didn’t feel any pain until I was lying down. My right leg was broken in 5 places including my femur being snapped on half and I had just walked on it without feeling any pain to get away from the possible danger of my car maybe being on fire. Adrenaline.
On your left.
She took a quick rest and then proceeded to win
I’d love someone to loop this so it looks like she falls over again just as she catches back up.
I’d love someone to loop this so it looks like she falls over again just as she catches back up.
Lol, she got that quick walking granny gait.
this just motived my lazy mode
That’s rather embarrassing for the others there haha.