Talk:Allan Wells

Proposed removal of potentially unimportant/unhelpful/inaccurate statement
"Wells remains the last male athlete without African ancestry to win the 100 metres at the Olympics."

I flagged this for importance and citation needed. I don't think it's useful or verifiable without DNA testing, and there's a fair amount of evidence that all of us have African ancestry if you go back far enough. Unless there are objections, I will remove this statement on or after April 3, 2024. Jlahorn (talk) 15:59, 30 March 2024 (UTC) ✅

Trivia Section
There appears to be someone from the same IP range making almost daily changes to this page. I have added the information that this person keeps removing yet again but thought that perhaps the person in question may want to discuss why they keep removing it?

Pablo180 (talk) 15:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I just removed it again. The Scottish records were never removed but maintained in the text. you duplicated that part by adding back the trivia section. David D. (Talk) 07:13, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Personal Bests
This video at youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M21ga9-xJrg shows a time of 10:03 versus Ben Johnson. I don't know if this was official or not or later modified, but if you watch the video, his time was 10:03 there. The main article here at wikipedia, though, right now claims 10:11. I have no idea which number is correct, but either way I think the "official" entry at wikipedia should add the YEAR, and the event, where he ran 10:11. Because right now this is missing, so how can anyone verify it? Whereas the video at 10:03, even if that time is not correct (I have no idea), shows the EVENT and how he beat Ben Johnson back then, so at the least that is a fact. 2A02:8388:1602:6D80:3AD5:47FF:FE18:CC7F (talk) 05:46, 6 May 2021 (UTC)