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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 6, 2021 15:08:50 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/57377392Dutch runner Sifan Hassan broke the women's 10,000m world record by more than 10 seconds on Sunday. Hassan, 28, ran 29 minutes 06.82 seconds at the FBK Games in Hengelo, the Netherlands, to beat the time of 29:17.45 set by Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana at the 2016 Olympics. "To run this world record here today in Hengelo is something I could only dream of," said Ethiopia-born Hassan. "I am so happy to share this record in front of my Dutch fans."
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Jun 6, 2021 21:54:17 GMT
Hassan, 28, ran 29 minutes 06.82 seconds at the FBK Games in Hengelo, the Netherlands, to beat the time of 29:17.45 set by Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana at the 2016 Olympics. Hard to know what to say about that really. I remember watching that Olympic final and it was an absolute joke. She was lapping everyone way before the end, people weren't happy. You can google any number of articles questioning it from back at that time, e.g:- fivethirtyeight.com/features/did-almaz-ayana-break-the-world-record-by-too-much/So you had a world record which was viewed as a joke, given the amount of time taken off the previous mark made by EPO'd up Chinese athlete of the early 90s. And now we have ANOTHER 10 seconds off that performance! What can you say... |
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Post by orlandogardner on Jun 7, 2021 19:27:58 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/57377392Dutch runner Sifan Hassan broke the women's 10,000m world record by more than 10 seconds on Sunday. Hassan, 28, ran 29 minutes 06.82 seconds at the FBK Games in Hengelo, the Netherlands, to beat the time of 29:17.45 set by Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana at the 2016 Olympics. "To run this world record here today in Hengelo is something I could only dream of," said Ethiopia-born Hassan. "I am so happy to share this record in front of my Dutch fans." Huge part left out of this piece is what she is wearing, Nike ZoomX Dragonfly spikes. These yokes seem to be causing a seismic shift. Kinda like when golf drivers and tennis rackets went from wood to better materials etc, those wearing them seem to have a big advantage over those who are not.
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Jun 8, 2021 21:59:31 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 8, 2021 23:57:59 GMT
Same track too. Someone needs to get their tape measure out!
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Jun 9, 2021 7:25:35 GMT
Ha ha,maybe! I didn't notice that though - wonder why the Ethiopians were having their trials in the Netherlands. I was looking over on LetsRun:- www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10630047Some chat re the wavelight pacer around the track, some re the shoes (although not as much as the vaporfly road shoes as no big tech change) but mostly they go with drugs! |
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Post by orlandogardner on Jun 9, 2021 9:55:45 GMT
Super spikes again. Apparently, in trials, they are giving even test athletes over 0.5 to a full second per lap over longer distances. That's huge, especially in the hands (feet) of this calibre of athlete. |
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Jun 9, 2021 14:54:47 GMT
The spikes angle is funny.
From what I've read these aren't like the Vaporfly spike hybrids which Laura Muir was running in (which I think became Zoom Victorys). Whilst they do have a carbon fibre plate (which everyone always said was a waste of time for spikes as they already had a rigid base anyway), the ones they are breaking records in don't.
What they do have is additional cushioning, which was always kept to a minimum for track spikes.
So it's weird but who knows - maybe it's just been a very wrong assumption they've made for years re the footwear required for more endurance based track events...
... Or maybe it's drugs!
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Post by NJtoTX on Aug 2, 2021 11:30:37 GMT
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 2, 2021 12:55:36 GMT
This was one of my favorite moments of the Olympics so far, I hope she's clean. It was incredible the way she just got up and blew everyone away. It wasn't the final so the frontrunners weren't setting a blistering pace, but incredible nonetheless. All the runners are completely gassed at the end, on their knees gasping for air. Hassan just walked off the track as if nothing just happened.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 2, 2021 13:53:02 GMT
She won the 5,000m gold today.
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Aug 2, 2021 21:53:41 GMT
It wasn't the final so the frontrunners weren't setting a blistering pace, but incredible nonetheless. All the runners are completely gassed at the end, on their knees gasping for air. Hassan just walked off the track as if nothing just happened. There's two things you mentioned here that are interesting:- 1. It wasn't a blistering pace. In fact it was a pretty slow pedestrian heat. 2. Everyone else was gassed after that final lap. Put the two together and you have the fact that everyone else should have had plenty in the tank for that final lap and yet once they expelled it they were knackered. Meanwhile Hassan, within what 360m(?) fell over, got back up and then ran them all down like they were all juniors or something... Amazing stuff. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 2, 2021 22:25:51 GMT
It wasn't the final so the frontrunners weren't setting a blistering pace, but incredible nonetheless. All the runners are completely gassed at the end, on their knees gasping for air. Hassan just walked off the track as if nothing just happened. There's two things you mentioned here that are interesting:- 1. It wasn't a blistering pace. In fact it was a pretty slow pedestrian heat. 2. Everyone else was gassed after that final lap. Put the two together and you have the fact that everyone else should have had plenty in the tank for that final lap and yet once they expelled it they were knackered. Meanwhile Hassan, within what 360m(?) fell over, got back up and then ran them all down like they were all juniors or something... Amazing stuff. Then a couple of hours later she won the 5000m gold as easy as you like.
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