MO FARAH
versus
USAIN BOLT

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1.75m
HEIGHT
1.95m

60kg
WEIGHT
94kg

4
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS
8

12.98s
100m
9.58s

3min 56.49s
MILE
4min 30s (estimate)

Usain Bolt is the fastest human in the world, but only up to 200m. His huge legs, packed with fast-twitch muscle fibres, allow explosive acceleration but they can’t sustain prolonged aerobic exertion, making them dead weights over longer distances. Usain Bolt has never actually run a mile, but most experts think he’d struggle to get a time under 4min 30s.


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