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Topics: Usain Bolt, Athletics
Ryan Smart
A 3D simulation has shown what would happen in a race between Usain Bolt, The Rock and Travis Scott.
Bolt is the fastest human on the planet, having set a still-unbeaten 100-metre world record time of 9.58 at the 2009 World Athletics Championships.
Given that no-one since has come close to breaking the record, fans have pitted Bolt up against the world's fastest animals using programming technology.
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We've seen Usain Bolt versus the world's fastest dog and Usain Bolt up against a cheetah.
We've even had Bolt versus three different types of dinosaurs, whose speeds are of course scientifically calculated.
The latest simulation is Bolt up against two completely different professions - with wrestler and Hollywood star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and rapper Travis Scott taking part.
Of course, there wasn't much competition for the win, with Bolt's 9.58 comfortably defeating anything that The Rock or Scott could run.
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But who takes second place?
To calculate The Rock's pace, the simulation took a social media post from 2023 which claimed he could run 40 metres in a time of 4.72 seconds, and used a number of distance variables to round up his total 100m time to 11.30 seconds.
For Scott, the simulation used a clip of the rapper sprinting a short distance between bases while playing baseball.
It calculated how many strides he then needed to take over 100 metres and how that would equate to a final time, totalling 12.63.
As a result, The Rock finished second behind Bolt, with Scott down in third.
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Some viewers in the comments questioned how The Rock, who was 51 when he wrote the tweet, would be able to run such a fast time over 100 metres.
Despite his incredible physical power through his work in the WWE, Johnson's training would surely focus more on endurance.
At WrestleMania 40 last April, The Rock took part in a tag team match with Roman Reigns against Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins, for his first WWE match in eight years.
The bout lasted a total of 44 minutes, and while Rock didn't wrestle for that entire time - and the match was slowed down - he was still required to perform a significant number of moves throughout.
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Maybe the 100-metre time is possible...