MAY WE FINALLY SEE WORLD RECORD IN THIS TERRIBLE YEAR FOR TRACK!!?!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

[The men's 400m WR could be lowered further.

They have said that they are going to scrap the existing pre-2005 World Records soon (which means early January when nobody will notice).

The men's 400m WR could be lowered further.

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I purposely did not mention the men's 400m WR because I don't think WVN will ever run any faster. He is a super talented athlete, but I think the stars aligned for him on that day. Also, when an athlete sets a WR, 90% of the time they never run faster. I am not sure why, but that's usually how it works. Bolt, Sotomayor, Bubka, Coe, Radcliff and Isinbaeva are the only athletes I can think of who set multiple records.

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TrackCoach wrote:

Bolt, Sotomayor, Bubka, Coe, Radcliff and Isinbaeva are the only athletes I can think of who set multiple records.

and will be the best for ahaile

I'm pretty sure there was a Haile that set multiple records too

Almaz Ayana could do it in the 5000. Remember, she ran the second half of her 10000 in London in 14:23, only one second per lap off - after a warm up 5000 most men here could only dream of running. ;-)

I don't care for world records anymore. I get much more more joy out of seeing the drugs busts happen, The Aden drug bust last year was brilliant except that the sport's authorities did nothing to enforce any sort of rule. But hopefully Seppelt, Fancy Bears, and some National Police will provide us with some more entertainment in the future.

In the next 3 years this will happen:

Marathon WR for sure

Manangoi or Cheruiyot go sub 3:27

Barega emerges as the next Bekele

Ingebritsen improves

400 WR goes

Andy Butchart breaks 13

All the Ethiopians challenge the 5 & 10 WR's

Sisu juice wrote:

Fentrekker wrote:

I like to watch races, and I think the drive for world records in the sport is both boring and bad for the sport. World records that happen in races, by chance, are a thrill. Events driven by records alone, where pace setters peel off at periodic intervals like booster rockets, are over-determned affairs and not interesting. Give me a good race, any day.

Well said sir! We are, however, voices in the wilderness on LR.

But hey - we are the cool crowd! :)

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Fentrekker wrote:

I like to watch races, and I think the drive for world records in the sport is both boring and bad for the sport. World records that happen in races, by chance, are a thrill. Events driven by records alone, where pace setters peel off at periodic intervals like booster rockets, are over-determned affairs and not interesting. Give me a good race, any day.

Great post

they are doing a demolition job on track .

making farah et all to retire when keep going for many more years .

especially with ageless speed peptide

money is leaving , goodbye reiti meet .

showing the public just how dirty track was by recent worlds

showing you the amount of previous dope and not just dope

but behind the scenes dirt and all testing scene and insider behaviour.

reason for wada as always said was to control the doping scene

and pretend to carry out that war on drugs .

and how deceptive they were and there use of media continously

saying how clean the sport is when never has it been dirtier in sprints

and even longer distances ,using more types of dope just not as fast

as free for all era.

showing you , how gullible the public are and eat it up.

aswell as all obvious told not to show up athletes or told to pull up etc

or face a failed test as one off testing went for it . poor centro.

allowing this whole transgender thing to engulf womens track

especially 800m when was stopped initially

only to be allowed again just to debase things as best they could

aswell as never really sorting out testing in east africa

just sort of went away and avoided and any media swept under rug .

question is why and why now , does it coincide with all the talk

of what is soon to come in world stage with politics , economy etc .

and as know elites have insider knowledge and know well in advance.

weather,,, want to believe this or not .

Peter Andersson wrote:

Almaz Ayana could do it in the 5000. Remember, she ran the second half of her 10000 in London in 14:23, only one second per lap off - after a warm up 5000 most men here could only dream of running. ;-)

Good post. That's the same theme I was planning to mention. The women's distance event records are gettable, specifically the 5000 and steeplechase. Too bad Ayana was injured/sick or whatever all year. We were robbed of several memorable battles in the 5000 between Ayana and a peaking Obiri. It could happen next year but no guarantee. Ayana has stated many times that she is determined to break that 5000 record.

Chespol had a very fast steeplechase time despite long delay to replace her shoe. That in itself shows the vulnerability of that 8:52. Jebet, for whatever reason, didn't replicate her 2016 form until last week with the 8:55.

Otherwise I would say the two high jumpers -- one each male and female -- have outside shots at the world mark. Both are extremely consistent and talented. The world mark always seems a bit outside Lasitskene at her best but Barshim seemingly has enough freakish ability to pull it off if everything went perfectly. Too bad he so often grabs the bar and surrenders after a satisfying height. Lasitskene isn't afraid to finish with those three failures.

McLeod with one great race could maybe dent that hurdles mark by a hundredth or two.

The best race of the year was the women's 400 hurdles at the United States trials. Unbelievable for six to race so cleanly and fast.

Otherwise, there was too much hype this year regarding Wayde entering the 42s. I think that's partially why it's viewed as a disappointing year.

Also, that track at London was dull, for whatever reason. Every sprint time was strangely slow. It had to be partially track conditions, even if nobody wanted to concede as much.

Hey, you guys should have been following swimming. There were new world records all over the place this year, albeit mostly in the shortest distances...the 50s.

Has anyone come close to the women's 400 or 800 record? Or the women's long or high jump? All those eastern European records need to be scrapped.