Paris 2024 Olympics Thread - 11th August (pg 430)

chesterbells said:
The rules on cheating are also a farce. If they used cameras or var 95% of them would be disqualified in the first km. instead they insist on keeping judgments done by eyesight only, and get 3 warnings I think.
For 5km, mens world record 18 mins, womens 20 mins. Anyone who’s ever done a parkrun will know how laughable those times are to “walk” 5km.

And yep, if you do it, you look like a twat ;-)
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I reminds me of the different strokes in swimming. Why do they even exist? Why is it not just a case of seeing who can get to the end the fastest? And I say that as someone who came second on the Cumbria all-Scouts 100m breaststroke final in the 90s. Why not have the 100m hopping? Or running backwards? It'd be like the high jump splitting into two separate events, when the fosbury flop was invented, and some people continuing to do the scissor technique.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
I reminds me of the different strokes in swimming. Why do they even exist? Why is it not just a case of seeing who can get to the end the fastest? And I say that as someone who came second on the Cumbria all-Scouts 100m breaststroke final in the 90s. Why not have the 100m hopping? Or running backwards? It'd be like the high jump splitting into two separate events, when the fosbury flop was invented, and some people continuing to do the scissor technique.
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If it helps, the world record for 100m hopping is 15.57 seconds.
 
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