43.47 to win the WC final, with Merritt second in 43.65 ... are you kidding me?

Also, there's the important factor of competition all the way to the line in big finals, just look at the tripple jump were the normal for twenty years has been 17.8x-17.9x being good enough for gold with silver medalist several decimeters behind, now we have two guys good for 18+ already in the preseason, so one up them upped his game ever further and did the second longest jump in history with 18.21.

Even those here that don't agree with me has noted that several of the 200 times in the 19.6x and 19.7x were done cruising the last bit, indirectly admitting that there should have been more times in the past done in the 19.4x and 19.5x, hence that Michael Johnson's 19.32, his greatest run, and outerwordly as it seemed at the time, wasn't really all that outstanding in terms of what should be possible, heck, I'd say that even Fredericks 19.68 behind him was the equivalent of crusing home because the man went into the blocks as a contender but a WR prospect himself and came out of the curve already beaten.

And let's not forget that 19.30, MJ's biggest achievement, has been beaten three times already. Hence it only makes senso to claim that his 43.18 is somewhat less so, it was after all the event were he at the time always was expected to win with ten to twenty meters, never really to be pushed all the way by anyone else.

But it's not the weakest WR of them all, I'd give you that. Haile Gebreselassie himself has said that if he and Kenenisa Bekele had worked together they could at taken the 10000 down to at least 26.05. Taken the man's known humbleness into equation that's the equivalent of saying had they worked together for 23 laps and then raced each over for the last 2 laps at least one of them would have gone sub 26.

Final score:

Clueless x4

Rubbish x1

Nonsense x1

Inept x1

Old Man Winter wrote:

Final score:

Clueless x4

Rubbish x1

Nonsense x1

Inept x1

Great argument there dude!

BTW - What's your pick, and arguments, for the weakest men's running record?

Is Perec a suspect doper? Her OR could very well the WR if she was clean.