Nah the energy systems for 100m, 200m, and, 200m and especially 400m are vastly different. Impossible to unite them all in one human body!!! Unless the field of competitors are all very poor athletes or all had an off day at the same time.
Two hundred meters and 400m double is rare, not rare because sub-20 200m and sub-44 400m athletes are rare. Rare because of Olympic and W.C. schedules. I have posted for years on here advocating T&F to spread out over two more days. With a couple more days, numerous double opportunities would be practical. 2024 Olympic schedule has 200m and 400m overlapping.
Really? I thought as long as the finals don't overlap it should be fine right? Heats and semis overlapping is fine though. It should be doable. Tobogo should really do the 200m and 400m in Paris. The 400m has backslided in recent years with athletes not progressing and stagnating. The 400m WR is really weak in my view.
Let us review schedule, 2024 Olympic:
August 5th, morning, 400m heat, evening, 200m heat;
August 6th, morning 200m heat, evening 400m semi-final;
August 7th, evening 200m semi-final, evening 400m final.
The current schedule could turn someone with gold medal 200m potential and gold medal 400m potential into a 4th place finisher in both. The above schedule is why sub-20 200m men with sub-44 400m pb rarely try both. If they do, they tend to be below their norm in at least one event.
Look, I'm talking about a guy that can potentially go sub 42 in the 400m at 23 or 24 years old despite having a 9.8x 100m PB. Also it is generally true that you can't be a 100m gold medallist while also be a 1500m one, and to some extent this applies within even sprinting between 100m and 400m.
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Look, I'm talking about a guy that can potentially go sub 42 in the 400m at 23 or 24 years old despite having a 9.8x 100m PB. Also it is generally true that you can't be a 100m gold medallist while also be a 1500m one, and to some extent this applies within even sprinting between 100m and 400m.
Agree although I would think it's more like 42.5 shape right now. The 400m is the most stagnated event in the world right now...same goes for 800m. These 2 events are in need of some rural born athletes who live in the mountains.
Agree although I would think it's more like 42.5 shape right now. The 400m is the most stagnated event in the world right now...same goes for 800m. These 2 events are in need of some rural born athletes who live in the mountains.
Respectfully, nobody is capable of 42.5. Whenever the 400m is next broken, it will be by less than a tenth of a second.
Agree although I would think it's more like 42.5 shape right now. The 400m is the most stagnated event in the world right now...same goes for 800m. These 2 events are in need of some rural born athletes who live in the mountains.
Bunk.
We see amazing early-season times every year in high-elevation RSA at Praetoria, Potch, etc.
Can’t say much about him that we don’t already know, based off this performance. Already for two years now I have said on here that he would do this, and here we are, it was just a matter of time and health.
I would LOVE to see him (or many others) destroy CC, and also Lyles. This may be the year, and there will be the biggest of stages this summer.
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