I just looked at the Olympic schedules for the men's track events, and most of the common doubles are planned for:
100-200
200-400
1500-5000
50000-10000
steeple-50000
doubles which are essentially impossible:
400-800
400h-400
800-1500
1500-steeple (not that anyone ever tries this anyway)
I'm noticing some bias. It seems Coe doesn't want someone else to try what he did.
Curious Person wrote:
1500-steeple (not that anyone ever tries this anyway)
Kip Keino tried it in 1972 and had some sucess.
Maybe they asked to around to see who (i.e. elite athletes with a chance of medaling in more than one event) would be interested in trying doubles and scheduled it around that?
Curious Person wrote:
I just looked at the Olympic schedules for the men's track events, and most of the common doubles are planned for:
100-200
200-400
1500-5000
50000-10000
steeple-50000
doubles which are essentially impossible:
400-800
400h-400
800-1500
1500-steeple (not that anyone ever tries this anyway)
I'm noticing some bias. It seems Coe doesn't want someone else to try what he did.
The ones they do provide for are much more common. How did the 2009 World Championship schedule work when several guys ran the 800m and 1500m? The rest of the doubles in your first section were still possible. Why don't they just use that schedule. As far as 400-800, no one runs both of those events anyway so it should not be an issue.
Curious Person wrote:
steeple-50000
Steeple and 50k racewalk would be an unlikely double.