Rojo failed to check and see if there was already a thread on this topic so he stated a thread on this here:
Put an * next to Cole Hocker's Olympic 1500m win? Mathematician says Paris altered track size cost Josh Kerr Olympic gold - LetsRun.com
We are closing posts here and asking you post there as we like his title bettter as this title was inaccurrate. The professors isn't from Oxford.
On the Oxford mathematics Instagram page, a mathematician says that due to the Paris Olympic track having shorter straights and longer bends (so it could fit a rugby pitch), the results are unfair.
She claims Hocker wouldn't have beaten Kerr on a standard size track due to the difference in centrifugal force involved in overtaking on the inside bend.
Obviously said in jest but an interesting idea.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPjXuPqDPYv/?igsh=NGxkNmlpdmFvZHRj
Wait Kerr won?? I must have missed that after he lost
Wonder why there are exactly ZERO Oxford mathematicians who are successful runners?
Mathematical runners tend to go to Cambridge.
Hocker eased up before the line though. His celebration appears in the photo finish.