Who was the first runner to set the world record under 10 seconds for the 100 meter dash?
” Only 19 entrants knew that Jim Hines broke the 10 second barrier in 1968. Jesse Squire of Bowling Green, Ohio was selected as this month’s winner. Jesse wins a promo card signed by 2 time Olympian Cathy O’Brien. Here’s how one entrant, Raymond Goldstone, answered this month’s question: “I am reasonably sure, but not positive, that my answer to the August 2003 Trivia Question is correct; and the road to that answer brought back many memories of the politically charged Summer Olympic Games of 1968 in Mexico City. Amongst those memories were the escalating War in Vietnam; the Democratic Convention in Chicago; the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; the assassination of Martin Luther King; the murder of scores of university student protestors in La Plaza de las Tres Culturas at Tlatelolco in Mexico City by the Mexican army just days before the Games; Tommy Smith and John Carlos definitive gesture on the medal podium after their medal winning performances in the 200 meter race and their ha
