The perfect sprinter would be above all else explosive, with the ability to be the out of the blocks within the blink of an eye. Parlaying those first few strides into momentum-building speed is what then separates first from fourth.
At the 1976 Games, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci received the first-ever perfect score of 10.0 for her performance on the bars. Unprepared for her perfection, the scoreboard was only able to display a 1.0.