A Possible Explanation For Britney Spears' "5.97 100m" Post
A Possible Explanation For Britney Spears' "5.97 100m" Post
Trying to make sense of Britney Spears' 5.97 100m post.
Last Thursday, Britney Spears of all people gave quarantined track fans some much needed entertainment: the 38-year-old Toxic singer (Toxic is the best Britney song, this isn’t up for debate) claimed, in a confusing and since-deleted Instagram post, that she ran 100 meters in 5.97 seconds.
#Tokyo2021 pic.twitter.com/sa1NhceBsz
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) March 26, 2020
Now, let me get my controversial take out of the way: Britney Spears did not run the 100 meters in 5.97 seconds. Not only is the pop star likely past her athletic prime at 38, but a human being running 37 miles per hour is, yep, Crazy. That’s about as fast as a tiger runs when it sees Joe Exotic coming (more on that later).
Here's what 5.97 (@britneyspears' 100m pb) looks like if @usainbolt did it... lmao pic.twitter.com/EhPxVbM7aQ
— Gordon Mack (@gordonmack) March 26, 2020
While I, like everyone else who read Britney’s post, was initially confused by the text, a conversation I had with my wife about the content has potentially shed light on this mystery. My wife is a huge Britney fan— they share the same birthday— and she hypothesized that the most likely explanation is that the …Baby One More Time singer actually ran a 40 meter dash and then confused the sprint with the other famous sprint distance.
This, dear readers, floored me.
It makes a ton of sense! I know Britney clarified her claim in a later post by saying she was “joking” about a 5.97 100m, but my thinking is that she doesn’t want to admit that she simply mixed up her events. But 5.97 is a pretty solid 40m time, and if she were to come out and say that she actually ran that distance, I certainly wouldn’t hold it against her.
Speaking of Joe Exotic and various "Tiger King" characters...