Editing Bob Hayes (section)

==Olympics==
[[File:Bob Hayes 1964.jpg|thumb|220px|Hayes at the 1964 Olympics]]

[[File:FAMU athlete Robert Hayes practices running on the track.jpg|thumb|right|170px|At FAMU in 1962]]

At the [[1964 Summer Olympics]], in Tokyo, Hayes won the 100 m and in doing so tied the then [[Men's 100 metres world record progression|world record in the 100 m]] with a time of 10.06 seconds, even though he was running in lane 1 which had, the day before, been used for the 20&nbsp;km racewalk and this badly damaged the cinder track. He also was running in borrowed spikes because one of his shoes had been kicked under the bed when he was playing with some friends and he didn't realize until he got there.<ref>Hayes, Bob (1992) ''Run, Bullet, Run: The Rise, Fall, and Recovery of Bob Hayes''. New York: Harper & Row. {{ISBN|0060182008}}.</ref> This was followed by a second gold medal in the 4 × 100 meter relay, which also produced a new World Record (39.06 seconds).<ref name=sr>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/bob-hayes-1.html |title=Bob Hayes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417094344/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/bob-hayes-1.html |archive-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref>
However, the international track and field federation World Athletics, formerly IAAF, faultily "only" accredits Hayes with a hand-timed 10.0 s during his 10.06 s race making him Olympic Champion over 100 m - that although the official manual stopwatches clocked Hayes at 9.8 s, 9.9 s and 9.9 s, which, according to the rules, was a hand-timed 9.9 s.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}

Hayes' come-from-behind win for the US team in the relay was one of the most memorable Olympic moments. Hand-timed between 8.5 and 8.9 seconds, his relay leg is the [[Anchor leg#All-time top 10 (men)|fastest in history]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121113200001/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/fanguide/athlete?athlete=5325 Bob Hayes – Olympics Athletes – 2008 Summer Olympics – Beijing, China – ESPN]. Sports.espn.go.com.</ref> [[Jocelyn Delecour]], France's anchor leg runner, famously said to [[Paul Drayton (athlete)|Paul Drayton]] before the relay final that, "You can't win, all you have is Bob Hayes." Drayton was able to reply afterwards, "That's all we need." The race was also Hayes' last as a track and field athlete, as he permanently switched to football after it, aged only 21.<ref>{{YouTube|mh-YLy_wnrc|See the race}}</ref>

In some of the first meets to be timed with experimental [[fully automatic timing]], Hayes was the first man to break ten seconds for the 100 meters, albeit with a 5.3&nbsp;m/s [[wind assistance]] in the semi-finals of the 1964 Olympics. His time was recorded at 9.91 seconds. [[Jim Hines]] officially broke 10 seconds at the high altitude of Mexico City, Mexico in 1968 (and on a synthetic track) with a wind-legal 9.95 which stood as the world record for almost 15 years. The next to surpass Hayes at a low altitude Olympics was [[Carl Lewis]] in 1984 when he won in 9.99, some 20 years later (though [[Hasely Crawford]] equaled the time in 1976).<ref>[http://run-down.com/guests/jc_bobhayes.php JC Bob Hayes]. Run-down.com. Retrieved on May 30, 2015.</ref>

Until the Tokyo Olympics, world records were measured by officials with stopwatches, measured to the nearest tenth of a second. Although [[fully automatic timing]] was used in Tokyo, the times were given the appearance of manual timing. This was done by adding 0.05 seconds to the automatic time and rounding to the nearest tenth of a second, making Hayes' time of 10.06 seconds convert to 10.0 seconds, despite the fact that the officials with stopwatches had measured Hayes' time to be 9.9 seconds,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131113125002/http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=52318 revisionist history: men's 100 WR]. Track and Field News. November 1, 2013</ref> and the average difference between manual and automatic times was typically 0.15 to 0.20 seconds. This unique method of determining the official time therefore denied Hayes the record of being the first to officially record 9.9 seconds for the 100 meters. The first official times of 9.9 seconds were recorded at the "[[Night of Speed]]" in 1968.