80s kid wrote:
Why are people laughing at the womens 1500m and 10k WR and not saying anything about the mens 400m? The record got smashed because he was in lane 8 due to the longer curve and inability to see your competitors? LoL since when has any race, championship, Olympic final or WR been broken in lane 8? It doesn't even happen in high school. Under that logic the 200m WR should be run in lane 8 too!
Interestingly, there have been quite a few outstanding performances from lane 8 for the 400m dash and hurdles. The fact is, there is nothing about lane 8 that truly makes it any different from the middle lanes. For an athlete like VNK, lane 8 is what probably made the record possible because he basically ran his own race, which was pretty all out the whole way as opposed to focusing on the competition. Being that he won by a decent margin, he probably would have run slower if focused on what was going on around him. Also, the 400m record is definitely not weak.
Most likely, you are a troll and I know I'm biting.