By your own admission, you have never even worn a pair of super shoes. If you just went into a running shop and tried on a pair, you'd feel the difference just walking a few steps.
I would levitate? In '68 the ITF banned brush spikes because of the perceived advantage they gave. Yet shoes today that you claim carve huge chunks off runners best times excite no attention by those who govern the sport.
Flat-earther, money governs the sport. Who came up with the first supershoes? Maybe your peabrain can work the rest out.
I would levitate? In '68 the ITF banned brush spikes because of the perceived advantage they gave. Yet shoes today that you claim carve huge chunks off runners best times excite no attention by those who govern the sport.
Flat-earther, money governs the sport. Who came up with the first supershoes? Maybe your peabrain can work the rest out.
So drugs are banned but not shoes that work better than drugs? And you don't think there's money in pharmaceuticals? More than in shoes.
(I couldn't find any official results with splits, but I looked up the race on Youtube, and these are aproximate splits)
Jakob at 20 (turning 21 a month and a half later): 1500: 3:28.32, closing splits: 1:50.1, 54.4, 40.8, 27.1, 13.6
The question is, which of them is the most impressive?
Interesting and substantive post. I would say the answer is Laros’s 3:45.94 is the most impressive run listed above, which is now virtually equaled by his 3:29.20, closing splits: 1:50.6, 53.4, 39.4, 25.9, 12.5. I wouldn’t be bothered by someone being a bit bullheaded and saying it’s Jakob’s 3:28.32, just on grounds of being nearly a second faster.
As for OP’s question, 3:26.xx is completely unknowable right now and may be a stretch, but I believe he can break 3:28 in a fast race, for sure, and I think he’s the most likely candidate out there to break the WR eventually. I see him as kind of the second coming of Steve Cram…maybe like Cram broke the 3:30 barrier, Laros will break the El Guerrouj barrier.
Right, because thinking a faster time somebody ran in an Olympic final with rounds and heat is better makes them bullheaded. Ok.