as of right now, no one would be close to touching the world mile record. kaki and rudisha can get closer to grazing the 800m wr than anyone in the world could get to the mile world record.
100m wr gets broken almost as often as the 10k. kinda strange, huh? too bad no one will be in the right kind of shape later this summer to run a blistering 10k, unless samuel wanjiru decides to try something brash, but it wouldn't happen at the olympics anyway.
mind you, i'm considering the athletes out there right now, and what would be more likely to be broken sometime in the near future. i think the 100m wr would be the most likeliest of track events non hurdling that would be broken in the near future, consider it was recently broken and has been happening more frequently, steroids or no steroids.
there's no one on the planet who could run 3:43.13 or faster this summer unless Webb, Lagat, Ramzi, Komen, or some other recent world top miler pulled a complete nugget of gold out of his a$$. Kaki is closer to the 800m wr than anyone is to the 1500m or mile wr.
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