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Originally Posted by Kobold777
The new shoe technology helps a lot, and from what I've read the 400 m hurdles are possibly the event where it helps the most. Seems similar to the buoyant swimsuits that helped shatter swimming records a decade ago.
I've heard about the shoe technology and I've no doubt it helps, but I'm not sure it can be used to discount the magnitude of the record.
There haven't been any other WRs at all at the Games yet in track or field and only a few small improvements across the entire year, whereas he's taken more time out of the record than it had moved in the past 44 years.
the swimsuit records should all be expunged - those improvements were crazy.