{"id":7947,"date":"2024-08-18T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2024-08-11T18:17:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T00:17:06","slug":"the-fastest-man-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7947","title":{"rendered":"The Fastest Man\/Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s great mystique in the 100-meter dash. The winner gets to call himself “The World’s Fastest Man.” The 2024 Olympic champion is Noah Lyles of the US, and I’m excited. But which is more accurate: “World’s Fastest Man” or “Winner of the 100-meter dash in the 2024 Olympics”? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what I mean:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Noah Lyles beat the Jamaican by 0.005 seconds, the #3 guy was 0.02 seconds behind. That’s his red shoe across the line – the shoe, not his torso. All the runners in this picture finished in a span of 0.12 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can watch the photo-finish race here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only one receives the gold medal, but they’re all extraordinarily fast. Here are the times: all under 10 seconds:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. (1 Corinthians 9.24, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s great mystique in the 100-meter dash. The winner gets to call himself “The World’s Fastest Man.” The 2024 Olympic champion is Noah Lyles of the US, and I’m excited. But which is more accurate: “World’s Fastest Man” or “Winner of the 100-meter dash in the 2024 Olympics”? Here’s what I mean: Noah Lyles beat … Continue reading The Fastest Man\/Men<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-24b","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7952,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions\/7952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}