We also will be doing a live watch praty and reaction show starting 5 minutes before the race (so 1:55 pm ET) and then going on for as long as we need to afterwards:
Celebrities don't understand the sport at all. Glad at least Keely and Kipchoge are there. Lewis is a sprinter so seems like a strange choice. Hope they don't make this political.
Anyone know Roger Bannister's mile PR before he ran 3:59.4 in 1954?
I see that he had a 3:46.0h 1500m from 1952. Is that 4:04.1 equivalent?
We talk about FK having to drop 7 seconds in two years as if it's flatly impossible, so I was wondering what the equivalent drop would have been for Bannister (or someone else who set the WR).
He was much closer: 4:02.0 in June 1953 (which was also a failed sub-4 attempt)
Anyone know Roger Bannister's mile PR before he ran 3:59.4 in 1954?
I see that he had a 3:46.0h 1500m from 1952. Is that 4:04.1 equivalent?
We talk about FK having to drop 7 seconds in two years as if it's flatly impossible, so I was wondering what the equivalent drop would have been for Bannister (or someone else who set the WR).
He was much closer: 4:02.0 in June 1953 (which was also a failed sub-4 attempt)
Celebrities don't understand the sport at all. Glad at least Keely and Kipchoge are there. Lewis is a sprinter so seems like a strange choice. Hope they don't make this political.
This is all political, it is just a long feminist campaign ad.
Two comments. Most rabbits have primarily been pacers, but not all. I don't think the effects of standard pacers are right for a situation with a whole cocoon. As I stated before NASCAR shows that the air flow is affected by those following as well. And since she is much shorter and the supporting crew is taller, the average effects for her will be larger.
It's a bit different with NASCAR as you have a much larger object moving much faster, and often multiple cars lined up.
Let's connect the dots. Quite well known that during the height of the political correctness era we have just been through, Nike believed that being at the forefront of a few initiatives that were ultimately counter both performance sport and (biological) women in sport was the path to success for them.
This right here is just the ultimate activation around correcting both of these factors. The first thing Elliot Hill would have done when he was given the reigns was to say "we need to win running again, and we need to win women again". By far the biggest narrative in all of this is "women can do anything men can" - and that was reinforced in the opening 10min of this broadcast by Diljeet Taylor and Keely Hodgkinson.
Given that she needs to improve by about 8 seconds, this lead up is pretty embarrassing. A total set up to fail, particularly in the eyes of a casual viewer (if there are any), UNLESS the casual viewer thinks that something like 4:05 is "almost" sub 4:00.