This from Bo
“I ran my first 40, and about five yards from the finish line, I kind of let up and just cruised through, and I ran a 4.3. As I’m walking back, my coach is walking towards me. He said, ‘Hey, why don’t you run the damn 40 and give these people what they want.’ So I said, ‘Alright. But you gotta open the back door,’ because they only had about 10 to 15 yards of space for you to stop once you crossed the line… So I got down, and everything was done electronically, and I didn’t find out until after track practice what I’d run. And some of the guys that had stopwatches, they had me at a 3.9 or 4-flat with stopwatches, but the electronic timer got me at a 4.13.”
I am a sprint geek/freak go back to the days of Lon Myers pre 1900, all he did was hold the American record at 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and the mile, I know the sport, nobody like in NOBODY runs a 3.9 40, that is 100% BS. So by tossing 3.9 and 4 flat around, noway I buy 4.13.
Christian Coleman is a World Champion 100m man, a 9,7 (Bo a 10.3) here he is at 40...
He is on a totally different speed level than any footballer even Bob Hayes, if all he can run is a 4.12, Bo never ran a 4.13, yep....BS.
A 4.13 back in the 80's simply isn't happening, pure fantasy.
Bo ran track at Auburn he was nothing special at all, a 10.39 wind aided 100m is a good HS time. Yep very fast for a 225 pounder but in with legit sprinters not so much.
