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<blockquote data-quote="gingergenius" data-source="post: 368863" data-attributes="member: 33219"><p>Ok, let's take one thing for granted. A professional sprinter is a man whose entire diet and training regime is devoted to improving his reaction times, improving his technique, maximising the power he can generate from certain muscles and so on.</p><p></p><p>This is a different regime from that of a rugby player, who has to run around for 80mins and take physical hits, not to mention having to learn and enhance a whole load of other skills.</p><p></p><p>Now let's look at the top brass of professional sprinters. Yes, the world record stands at 9.58, but the time most top class sprinters have worried about for the past 30 odd years is 9.99 secs, and it is around this time that most of them run. And only the really top guys break 10 seconds. Even the UK, which can draw from a sizeable population of African/ Caribbeans, and can provide world class training facilities, has only seen Dwain Chambers break the 10 second barrier in the past 10 years. Most professional sprinters outside of major champtionships and US college events are happy to run something in the region of 10.2</p><p></p><p>Given the fact that rugby players are not training to sprint professionally, then it's quite obvious that their 100m times aren't going to be anywhere near 10.2. But of course we don't know this, because they're never timed, so all we hear is speculation on their schoolboy times. The reason is quite simple - they were quicker as schoolboys, because they hadn't put on all the extra bulk required for pro rugby.</p><p></p><p>So, if they were incredibly quick as schoolboys, how quick were they? Well, a quick look over recent results in World Junior Athletics Championships shows that even the top youth sprinters in the world are recording times ranging from about 10.2 to 10.8. So if all these rugby players were as quick as some of these fanboys say they are, they would quite probably have been competing at high levels in athletics. As it is, none of them have made it even to their national youth teams.</p><p></p><p>Who's the fastest rugby player out there? Hard to tell. Out of well-known players, my guess is that it would be someone from the group of Ngwenya, Chavhanga, Varndell, Davies etc. But since there's no one publishing times for them, and there's no race (like there is, for example, in Super League) then we'll have to quit debating. It doesn't really matter that much anyway...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gingergenius, post: 368863, member: 33219"] Ok, let's take one thing for granted. A professional sprinter is a man whose entire diet and training regime is devoted to improving his reaction times, improving his technique, maximising the power he can generate from certain muscles and so on. This is a different regime from that of a rugby player, who has to run around for 80mins and take physical hits, not to mention having to learn and enhance a whole load of other skills. Now let's look at the top brass of professional sprinters. Yes, the world record stands at 9.58, but the time most top class sprinters have worried about for the past 30 odd years is 9.99 secs, and it is around this time that most of them run. And only the really top guys break 10 seconds. Even the UK, which can draw from a sizeable population of African/ Caribbeans, and can provide world class training facilities, has only seen Dwain Chambers break the 10 second barrier in the past 10 years. Most professional sprinters outside of major champtionships and US college events are happy to run something in the region of 10.2 Given the fact that rugby players are not training to sprint professionally, then it's quite obvious that their 100m times aren't going to be anywhere near 10.2. But of course we don't know this, because they're never timed, so all we hear is speculation on their schoolboy times. The reason is quite simple - they were quicker as schoolboys, because they hadn't put on all the extra bulk required for pro rugby. So, if they were incredibly quick as schoolboys, how quick were they? Well, a quick look over recent results in World Junior Athletics Championships shows that even the top youth sprinters in the world are recording times ranging from about 10.2 to 10.8. So if all these rugby players were as quick as some of these fanboys say they are, they would quite probably have been competing at high levels in athletics. As it is, none of them have made it even to their national youth teams. Who's the fastest rugby player out there? Hard to tell. Out of well-known players, my guess is that it would be someone from the group of Ngwenya, Chavhanga, Varndell, Davies etc. But since there's no one publishing times for them, and there's no race (like there is, for example, in Super League) then we'll have to quit debating. It doesn't really matter that much anyway... [/QUOTE]
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