Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100M at Her Kid's Sports Day Event

I believe many people have jokingly proposed that every Olympic event contain one random/normal person to give some sense of perspective of the real skill and performance of the Olympians.

What's amazing isn't just how much faster she is but also how much control she has over her body. Her motions are so precise and perfect, the people behind her look like a flailing Zombie horde in comparison. I guess that's what I should have expected, but I never noticed it in competitions, because everybody moves like that there.

It&#x27;s great when people don&#x27;t hold back, we have a local case of farmer next door hits 24 x 24 inch targets at 5,000 yards while his spotter hits soda cans at 1,200 yards.<p>Bit daunting for the rest of us, but a good source of advice and tips.

A great short video — though I was <i>hoping</i> she was running against the kids.

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I&#x27;d like to play a football match with Messi, if my kids shared a class with his.

The thing that gets me is the difference between &quot;I can win Olympic gold&quot; which is what 10 seconds? And &quot;I&#x27;m competitive at the school sports day event&quot; which is ~15 seconds?<p>For me that&#x27;s right up there with the difference between the fastest anyone&#x27;s ever run a mile and the pace per mile of someone running an Olympic marathon. Both seem really weird in a way I can&#x27;t put my finger on.

I was in an intramural American flag football league in college and one chemical engineering student who played was the biggest, quickest, strongest and most clever player on the field, and by big margin. He was also very friendly. A whole different class of human. No how much I trained I would never be able to complete with him. In earlier times, he would&#x27;ve been the tribe leader.

Best thing I have seen in a long time, lucky that there were two cameras, as the drone pilot lost the shot , there was no way to show the race from a close distance.......guessing we just have seen a demonstration of how stadiums got invented ie: sometimes you need a little distance to get a true perspective of what is happening

It is m not M. As mega is not meter.

This seems like a fairly bad example to compare with?<p>These runners do not even look like amateurs. Look how the best of the bunch still does the novice mistake of decelerating _before_ the finish line. They&#x27;re just regular people asked for &quot;let&#x27;s try to run a 100m sprint&quot;. It doesn&#x27;t take an Olympic champion to get a 3+ seconds lead in such competition.<p>The above-average track runner would look the same in this video. And the Olympic champion might have an 1s+ lead on them, which is still a lot, but not as lot as in this video (at least they will both fit in the camera).

You see the same thing in e-sports too.<p>You can be “good” at StarCraft 2 and still be miles away from the top. Even between the top 100 players the difference is stark

I don&#x27;t think it was intentional, being kottke.org, but it&#x27;s a terrific click bait headline.

The headline is 70% on the way to being in The Onion.

I think I’d have fun and let someone else win.

Wow, what a nothing burger. On Kottke. Pretty cool that she gave it her everything at a mere parent event IMO.<p>Is this why this is on HN? Genuinely asking.

A 100M doesnt have that drastic of a time difference between an athlete and an Olympian.<p>We are talking a few seconds max.<p>This is more of a knock on how out of shape the parents were.