no way, Josue! wrote:
No way was Coe better than Kiketer. He was slower. His two records were outliers he never got near again. His zero medals bows low before Kipketer's two.
On a lighter note, whatever happened to Wesley Vazquez, the big Puerto Rican who ran 1:44's and finally a 1:43 on the world B-meet circuit? Just kind of disappeared, prior to Arop taking over.
Anyhow it is good to see Arop continue the tradtion of tall 800 runners being better than short ones, including Coe.
I don't think it would be argued Coe was necessarily better than Kipketer. But you overlook one important fact in Coe's favour. His 1981 world record was nearly a 2 second improvement on the record that preceded his efforts. That is a stratospheric improvement. Kipketer was only able to take 0.6 of a second off Coe's record some 16 years later.