SMH....people keep saying it's the shoes. So the shoes magically give you perfect and the most efficient hurdle technique?
The combination of the shoes and the surface could give an individual a slight advantage in their clearance. There are not a ton of championship races in the past where every individual was flawless in their clearance of the hurdles. The past couple championships have made it look routine. Is it training or is it something else? What is not deniable is that long standing records in hurdles have been dropping like flies in both the men's and women's events the past few years and there were about three times as many sub-4:00 mile runners in Division 1 track this year than in a typical year. Kevin Young's 400H record stood for close to 30 years. Yuliya Pechonkina's 400H record stood for 16 years. Those records were thought untouchable because they most likely involved supplementation that is illegal. Now they are getting beat with regular testing. So, is it the shoes or is it something else. My guess is the shoes, simply because it is unlikely that the 90 college kids and the numerous sub-4:00 high schoolers this year were all on the sauce.
SMH....people keep saying it's the shoes. So the shoes magically give you perfect and the most efficient hurdle technique?
The combination of the shoes and the surface could give an individual a slight advantage in their clearance. There are not a ton of championship races in the past where every individual was flawless in their clearance of the hurdles. The past couple championships have made it look routine. Is it training or is it something else? What is not deniable is that long standing records in hurdles have been dropping like flies in both the men's and women's events the past few years and there were about three times as many sub-4:00 mile runners in Division 1 track this year than in a typical year. Kevin Young's 400H record stood for close to 30 years. Yuliya Pechonkina's 400H record stood for 16 years. Those records were thought untouchable because they most likely involved supplementation that is illegal. Now they are getting beat with regular testing. So, is it the shoes or is it something else. My guess is the shoes, simply because it is unlikely that the 90 college kids and the numerous sub-4:00 high schoolers this year were all on the sauce.
Dalilah broke the WR in 2019 pre-supersprintspikes. Zoom Maxflies and the like are probably worth a tenth of a second per 100 meters, judging from the times of current 100/200 sprinters. Lyles for example ran 19.50 pre-supersprintspikes.
The thing about Sydney is that she showed serious potential at a young age (actually much like Bolt, Mu, and Lyles). To me times from that quartet are a natural maximization of potential, whereas Amusan and Jacobs basically came out of nowhere.
If you have a dependent variable that is an outlier (the times in that one heat), you shouldn't look at independent variables that are the same, heat after heat, final after final (the track and the shoes).
You need to look for an independent variable that actually could vary.
After determining that the timing functioned properly, and I will assume that has been verified, what else could be DIFFERENT about that heat and that heat alone? (So, NO, it would not be the shoes or the track).
Is it possible that the wind gauge failed, or was blocked, or was not in the best location, etc.? At least wind is something that could vary from heat to heat.
Exactly. Here is one other independent variable to consider….are we sure it is the full/correct distance? Although unlikely in a short event, it is not impossible (I’m thinking more the distance before hurdle 1 and after the final hurdle, as lessening the distance between hurdles would wreak havoc with their form.
Of course we could consult Track & Field News, the Bible of the Sport as they call themselves:
"Many assumed a timing system malfunction — from equipment manufactured by Seiko, which had generated observably faulty split data (though final times were fine) at these Worlds. Not so. Amusan’s blinder was legit. (Among others, T&FN conducted a frame-count analysis of race video, which backs up the validity of the time.)"
Yeah. This is terrible. Let's go back to gravel tracks and 1954 Bannister spikes.
Ha ha yeah - remember when synthetic tracks were introduced and all WRs were immediately smashed? Yeah - me neither. Remember when we switched from leather to synthetic upper and all the WRs got crushed? Yeah, don't remember that one either.
So many records have been broken since the release of cheat shoes it would be exhausting to post all of them here.
Not saying whether this is legit or not (although I think it is), but hurdlers can't "jog" their semis like they can in other events. They have to still run pretty fast to keep their rhythm/steps correctly. I'm sure if an athlete got an amazing start and hit the first couple of hurdles well they might be inclined to "go for it" with favorable wind.
What do you mean came out of nowhere?? Tobi Amusan literally set the world junior record with a time of 12.83 back in 2016 albeit unratified with only two to three of hurdles training, and finished fourth in doha with a time of 12.49 despite a disastrous start, she finished fourth again in Tokyo with another bad start and later went on to run 12.42 at the diamond League final. She's worked on her start and technique and now you're seeing the result.
