Olympic champion in the 100 m in 1968, he was the first athlete under ten seconds in this distance. American Jim Hines, whose career was as meteoric as his Mexico City straight, died Saturday at the age of 76.
His time, 9 sec 9 on the stadium panel and 9 sec 89 on the electric stopwatch, was finally set at 9 sec 95. "If they corrected my time, it's because no one could believe that a man runs so fast," said Hines in 2016.