In Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League meeting against Real Sociedad on Tuesday, PSG forward Kylian Mbappé’s speed for 100 meters was estimated at 10.9 seconds. “It’s just over a second behind Usain Bolt’s world record,” wrote BBC Sport. To 71.8 million followers on Instagram, the popular football account 433 wrote: – Kylian Mbappé almost beat Usain Bolt’s world record in the 100 metres. Then woke up the Norwegian sprint comet Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen, who made it to the WC final in the 400 meters last year. He is among the many who have pointed out that the comparison with Bolt is not that impressive. SCREEN DUMP: Ingvaldsen was not impressed by Mbappé’s time. Photo: Screenshot / Instagram – I actually thought he was faster, he wrote in the comment field to 433. – 10.90 is not that fast and it was most likely done with speed from before. It is not even close to the world record for women in the 100 metres, added Ingvaldsen. news’s athletics commentator Christina Vukicevic Demidov also made a clear statement on Instagram: “Stop comparing sports”. Photo: Skjermdump @christinav.d / news – I laughed when I saw it The athletics account Jumpers World, with 650,000 followers on Instagram, has been in contact with Bolt about the comparison to 433. – I laughed when I saw it. The women ran faster than that, Bolt wrote. The International Athletics Federation has also signed up to the laughing stock: “10.90? So sweet,” they wrote on X, with a picture of sprinters Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, giggling as a team. SCREEN DUMP: World Athletics made fun of the comparison on X. Photo: Screen dump @WorldAthletics / X The world record for women is held by the American Florence Griffith-Joyner, with a time of 10.49. Mbappé’s estimated 10.90 had not held more than 13th place in the annual statistics of the International Athletics Federation for women in 2023 – and 5182nd place for men. – The fastest women in the world are extremely fast. So it is disrespectful to the athletes to compare Mbappé with the best sprinters in the world. He is crazy fast, but that is something completely different, says sprinter Even Meinseth to news. Usain Bolt set a new world record in the 100 meters with a time of 9.58 during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin 2009. – He had been out of the camera picture. who has 10.29 as a personal record and has won three NM golds in the 100 metres, believes there is a difference between being “football fast and athletics fast”. – On the track you already have speed from before, while in athletics you shoot from the starting block. It is impossible to compare actually, says the sprinter. For example, Bolt ran the last 100 meters in a 150 meters in 8.70 seconds back in 2009. – There are probably a number of sprinters who had not seemed so fast on the grass, and athletes who are fast in football who had not managed it on athletics track. Running with football boots on grass is something different than running with spiked shoes as a sprinter, says Meinseth. SPRINTER: Even Meinseth has sprinted 100 meters in 10.30. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB Speed Showdown has created a simulation of what it would have looked like if Mbappé had run against Bolt on the athletics track. – If you saw them next to each other, as in the simulation, you can see that Mbappé would have quickly been out of the camera image, says Meinseth. Thinks Haaland could have become a champion But the sprinter believes there are several great footballers who could have become successful athletes: – Look at them, they are crazy athletes. Erling Braut Haaland with strength and resilience, who is relatively fast. And Mbappé with speed and acceleration. They are fast as well as having to score goals. Haaland also has the highest unofficial world record in athletics as a five-year-old: – What athletics discipline do you think they could be good at? – Many games for Haaland. He has the versatility, but is not really good at sprinting, like Mbappé, who has the extreme speed. He thinks I should invest in just sprinting. – I understand that they chose football with money in mind, jokes Meinseth. The Brazil manager snorts at the Neymar comparison 00:48 The bicycle helmet is ridiculed 00:44 Absurd World Cup blunder: — What are you doing? 00:29 Scandalous scenes in the World Cup: – Oi! It is extremely dangerous! 00:47 Show more
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