Jonathan Gault wrote:
double standard wrote:
What's with the trend of freaking out over Kamworor's 13:01 split, when in reality it was heavily assisted by the wind? Ryan Hall's marathon can't get mentioned without someone noting that it was wind-aided, but the site makes it sound like Kamworor ran a legitimate, unaided split in the half in the recent article about him. Not bashing the guy at all, but this is the only performance I've seen around here not listed with an asterisk for some noted conditions.
Did you read the article? This is what I wrote:
that segment is a net downhill, and Kamworor benefited from a tailwind as high as 30 mph for much of it.
Obviously it was an aided split, but he still crushed some of the world's best over the final 6.1k.
The time he ran for the last 6.1km is totally irrelevant. It isn't even worth stating.
Gatlin ran 9.3 or something with a big fan behind him.
Mike Boit ran 3:30 or so for a mile downhill.
Kamworor did crush the field over the last 5/6km but he was always the favourite to win and I'd have liked to see the likes of Karoki, Kipchoge, Kipsang etc in that race before calling that field 'the world's best'.