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A combination of the "Our Presentation" thread and the disintegration of the "Athlete Of The Decade" thread into a bun fight over numerology brought to my mind our old friend a new set of WRs, starting with '00 (feel free to call that the new M or not, your choice; i call it a quasi-logical time to have turned over the WR meter).
If we had done that, do you realize what good press Osaka would have gotten compared to what it did? I hate to use gimmickry to sell the sport, and think that competition needs to be sold over records, but we've all seen how well that has gone so far, eh? Yet another WC devoid of record action, and with the ho-hums with which the general media greets that.
By my quick count (i.e., no real research, so I may have added one that isn't true and/or missed one) we had a half-dozen "World Records" in Osaka:
men's 400 and 4x4
women's 200, 800, 4x4, DT
two WRs each for Wariner & Felix---that mighta pushed a little bit of football and baseball off the sports pages.
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ps--when I say "new" WRs I hasten to add that my proposal is NEVER to eliminate the old ones; there's merely a new set that was created when the calendar went from 1's to 2's. I know I'm in the minority for pushing this idea, but evidence such as the above only stiffens my resolve that that's the kind of ting the sport needs to do.
If we had done that, do you realize what good press Osaka would have gotten compared to what it did? I hate to use gimmickry to sell the sport, and think that competition needs to be sold over records, but we've all seen how well that has gone so far, eh? Yet another WC devoid of record action, and with the ho-hums with which the general media greets that.
By my quick count (i.e., no real research, so I may have added one that isn't true and/or missed one) we had a half-dozen "World Records" in Osaka:
men's 400 and 4x4
women's 200, 800, 4x4, DT
two WRs each for Wariner & Felix---that mighta pushed a little bit of football and baseball off the sports pages.
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ps--when I say "new" WRs I hasten to add that my proposal is NEVER to eliminate the old ones; there's merely a new set that was created when the calendar went from 1's to 2's. I know I'm in the minority for pushing this idea, but evidence such as the above only stiffens my resolve that that's the kind of ting the sport needs to do.
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