{"id":805725,"date":"2020-03-26T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=973703"},"modified":"2020-03-26T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:39:11","slug":"is-britney-spears-the-fastest-sprinter-in-human-history-a-rolling-stone-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/is-britney-spears-the-fastest-sprinter-in-human-history-a-rolling-stone-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Britney Spears the Fastest Sprinter in Human History? A Rolling Stone Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once again, the world is skeptical of Britney Spears<\/a>. If there is any pop star on the planet that deserves more respect on her name it\u2019s the woman who gave us a solid 10-plus years of bangers while battling the rampant misogyny of the early-aughts music industry, but the world is up in arms after a claim Spears made Wednesday on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cRan my first 5,\u201d the 38-year-old pop singer wrote<\/a>. \u201cGetting over your fear of pushing it in the beginning is key. Once I did that I hit 5. Usually, I run 6 or 7. My first try was 9 and now I did it, whoop !!!!! 100-meter dash \ud83c\udfc3\ud83c\udffc\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83c\udf38\ud83d\udc95\ud83d\ude09 !!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

As many soon realized, Spears running the 100-meter dash in 5.97 seconds would mean she broke Usain Bolt\u2019s previous record of 9.58 seconds. For context, Spears even approaching a nine-second, 100-meter dash is scientifically unlikely at this time in human existence, let alone beating it by 3.61 seconds.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo get to what would be required for nine flat, they would have to approach forces roughly six times their body weight, and a ground contact time of just over seven hundredths of a second,\u201d Peter Weyand, a biochemist told Wired<\/em><\/a> in 2018. \u201cIf you put together a perfect human being, and the perfect race, I could certainly see something in the low 9.40-second range, maybe a little bit faster than that, under currently legal conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For what it\u2019s worth, Spears has been partaking in a grueling training regime<\/a> as well as studying the most famous speedster in the animal kingdom. \u201cThe cheetah is a large cat from Africa,\u201d Spears wrote on IG<\/a> in early March. \u201cIt can\u2019t speak English yet can run over 60 mph lol. In other words, don\u2019t mess with the cat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Before we judge Britney\u2019s perception of her speed, it\u2019s important to gauge what is being measured. \u201cWhen we talk about something being fast, it\u2019s really not clear if you\u2019re talking about the total duration, the total time it takes to perform the movement, the speed at which its performed, and the acceleration at which its performed,\u201d Sheila Patek, a biologist explained to Fast Company<\/em><\/a> when discussing the speed of animals like the cheetah. \u201cEach one of these things mean very different things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it\u2019s unclear how Spears is measuring how fast she is, what conditions she\u2019s running under, and the make-up of her sneakers and apparel, which all can impact that final time. As a result of these variables, Rolling Stone<\/em> cannot completely rule out Spears\u2019s original claim. However, it equally cannot confirm it. This investigation was a failure.<\/p>\n

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Once again, the world is skeptical of Britney Spears. If there is any pop star on the planet that deserves more respect on her name it\u2019s the woman who gave us a solid 10-plus years of bangers while battling the rampant misogyny of the early-aughts music industry, but the world is up in arms after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 19:09:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}