Let’s keep the subject clear wrote:
You have provide no point. You have stated that there is no advantage in the 100 and 200. Great. No one has contested that. The subject is the 400. As the distance goes up, the impact of fatigue is where the advage is clear. The blades do not break down. The power they return is the power they return with no drop. Does that mean they are at an advantage overall. No clue.
I mean if you can't see the relation between the 200m and the 400m then I can't really help you. Maybe you should ask WVN or Merritt why they bother racing the 200m next time.
How many elite 400m runners go out in 22/23 seconds? The fastest way to run the event is to go out hard and run a storming back straight. Blade runners can't do that and their second 200m is just on par with the second 200m run by guys with legs.
They lose tons of time over the first 200m and cannot make it back over the second 200m. The 400m T44 WR is abysmal and this kid we are talking about would get smoked in D1 or even D2.
The negative or even split business is simply because they can't physically go out fast. Ask Mike Norman to go out in 23s and he could cruise to a 46 if he wanted.
In fact nobody has the splits for Pistorious' 45.07 because they didn't take any, but it looked a lot more even and ordinary compares to the race where the controversy started, which was actually only run in 46.7 by Oscar but he closed in 22.5s or something. Which any top 400 guy could do with ease.