It's a three legged race...
THE TEAMS ARE:
Team 1: Galen Rupp & Ed Whitlock
Team 2: Dean Kanarzes and Emma Colburn
Team 3: Usain Bolt & Oscar Pistorius
Team 4: Shalane Flanagan & Kara Goucher
THE EVENTS ARE:
400m Sprint
the 1500
5k Road Race
Marathon
100K Mountain Race
To get it started.
Here is the world record
400 METRES
1:22.2 min
Emanuel Cerny und Josef Bohman (Czechoslovakia)
1984 in Prievidza
Looking around uncomfortably wrote:
400m Sprint - team 3
the 1500 - team 4
5k Road Race - team 4
Marathon - team 1
100K Mountain Race - all teams DNF
Soft world record...
Soft world record...
If they were meeting for the first time at a one-day summer carnival:
400m: Shalane & Kara
1500: Shalane & Kara
5k: Shalane & Kara
Marathon: Shalane & Kara
Mountain Race: Shalane & Kara
If they had trained as much as they could prior to meeting:
400m: Usain & Oscar
1500: Shalane & Kara
5k: Shalane & Kara
Marathon: Shalane & Kara
Mountain Race: Shalane & Kara
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Reasoning:
Whitlock too old.
Tough for leg/prosthetic adjustment between Oscar and Usain.
Difficult man/woman adjustment between Dean and Emma
Shalane & Kara -- fairly similar, both elite runners in their own right, that could easily compensate for their slightly-slower state as female runners with the fact that they are still incredibly fast ELITE runners, and bodies match more than anyone else.
i agree, but not because of ability at all.
pistorius and bolt are too different in height and pistorius' blades would give him trouble off the track.
coburn and karnazes would actually make a good team for road runs although the gender difference would alter strides a lot. i'd go with goucher/flanagan because they probably have similar turnover and would work well together. same gender/approx same abilities. definitely the best pair listed
i also don't know who ed whitlock is but i assume that because he was paired with rupp that he is not fast currently
Lauren Fleshman would win because her bullshit prose and Picky Bars would make everyone else sick.
Jose Padilla wrote:
Lauren Fleshman would win because her bullshit prose and Picky Bars would make everyone else sick.
Yeah lolz she's so fkin annoying like stfu u slt