rose colored boy wrote:
Poyt wrote:
It wouldn’t be a meaningful record. Assembling the four best runners in the world and putting them on a relay team would produce a stupid fast time, but what would be the point? Relays only make sense if there’s a meaningful connection between the athletes on the team. Same school, same country, ok. Same sponsor is tenuous at best. If you’re going to assemble a group of international elites, it’d be more interesting to just have them run an individual race.
How can you possibly quantify "meaningful record"?
Even if you insist that having some sort of connection between the runners is necessary, why are we privileging "being from the same nation state" as a prerequisite over "having the same sponsor" or "being friends" or whatever?
It's a nonsense rule.
Nobody’s trying to “quantify” anything, you fool. You wanted “qualify”.
Anyway, by extending your logic, the natural conclusion is that there should simply be no world relay records, which I think is a perfectly valid solution. Leave them to schools.