eh ?
peak career shape is peak career shape
it is realised more in retrospect when guy had small window of opportunity to smash the record
because he was already damn tired by athens-'97 with 3 successive races then 1 day break before solo 1'43+ win & probably finished but went to zurich just 5 days later with no proper resting/recovery from gold & ran incredible !!!
he has stated he was not recovered for monaco with 52.0 / 50.7 !!! just 3 days later
then a 1'42.2 in brussels few days later & then absurdly, just 44 hours later in brutal 89F he split still too damn quick opener :
23.8 - 25.5 (49.3) - 25.3 (1:14.6) - 26.5 (1:41.1)
if he had no pesky wc to run & couda planned his wr assault fully rested & targeted 1 of zurich or monaco or brussels or koln for the peak effort & got weather/smooth pacing to bell/etc, the WR wouda been
~ 1'40-low
nonsense
at elite level it has to be a "known" meet/track with fully auto-timing
what is this rubbish ?
unknown meet - what berlin/brussels/eugene/london/oslo/stockholm/zurich was it in '81 ?
as for HT : get a clue : olizarenko's 1'54.85 in '80 had HT including 1'54.5 & 1'54.6 !!!
the HTs were upto 0.35+s out !!!
utter nonsense to claim validity of 800 HTs
nonsense
if you have seen the races live on satellite or on youtube you re-assess them & offer "corrected" for "control" of "ideal" fully rested 800 paced smoothly to bell in 0 wind/etc
laughable
monaco 800 was wild !
souly went for it, got nothing of worth for drafting, ran an incredible ~ 8.5m extra on bends & was worth
~ 1'41.5
that day in "perfect route-1 paced-to-bell" effort
Asbel is a superior athlete to souly
Ryun's are big shoes
Earl Jones at 19y ran outdoor 1'43.7 solo to win '84 trials after rounds on successive days off stoopidly quick opening 200
he was probably worth 1'42-mid in it if a fully rested 1-off, smoothly paced to bell run :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djbGrI9C7JQ