the 5000m specialists will realise that Laros, Jakob and Hocker represent more of a danger to their medal chances and try to control the race from the front using Jakob/Tim C 1500m tactics.
The squeeze will start from 3 miles to go and only the strongest will survive
One if not more of the following will occur, and the media attention from that will equal if not exceed interest in any athletic competition at the World Championships.
Two athletes from the USA get in trouble for possession of/carrying handguns as part of their trip to Japan for the championships. How they obtained the guns w hile in Japan is not discovered for years.
One female athlete becomes part of a public scandal after she receives an abortion as a result of attending the Championships,
A number of foreign protesters are injured (taken to hospitals) as a result of being quickly/forcibly removed from the marathon course by security. Quick action prevented any race interference from occurring.
Over 10 athletes are busted for possession of illegal drugs (marijuana and other, not PEDs) but the busts occur after all competition has concluded.
Five gold medal winners from these championships are eventually suspended for drug violations.
The stadium is filled to capacity for any session where there is a final, and many hundreds of thousands of spectators line all possible parts of the marathon courses. Years later it is learned that the Japanese government made special arrangements for large numbers of spectators to attend to counter the poor optics/image on no spectators at the 2021 Olympics.
A Japanese marathoner remains as part of a small lead pack of runners at the 37 km mark, until they collapse on the road and are rushed to a hospital where they spend the next 36 hours.