For several weeks now I've been thinking that the last day in Paris was as about as good a session of track as I can ever remember sitting through. As good say, as that incredible evening in Zürich in '97 when we saw WRs in the 800, steeple and 5K in the span of a couple of hours.
How can I possibly stack a no-record session up against one like Z had? Competition, my friends, competition. There were 6 track finals in Paris, in the space of about 70 minutes. The difference between gold and silver in those 6 races TOTALLED less than a second (0.97). Three of them were by 0.05 or less. I'll take that over runaway records any day of the week.
ps--with the era of WRs almost completely behind us, suggest you start coming on board to that way of thinking too or else you're not going to have much to enjoy down the line.
How can I possibly stack a no-record session up against one like Z had? Competition, my friends, competition. There were 6 track finals in Paris, in the space of about 70 minutes. The difference between gold and silver in those 6 races TOTALLED less than a second (0.97). Three of them were by 0.05 or less. I'll take that over runaway records any day of the week.
ps--with the era of WRs almost completely behind us, suggest you start coming on board to that way of thinking too or else you're not going to have much to enjoy down the line.
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