it's the oldest record? daaamn.
warholm looks like the one who is capable of doing it. this guy is crazy.
alot of records falling in this post-covid era. maybe less competition = better? dno.
Yeah it's the oldest male track record. There are some older field records, such as Yuriy Sedykh from the Soviet Union having a hammer throw world record set back in 1986, which is also the same year East German Jürgen Schult set the current world record for discuss. There are still quite a few female track records that are from the 1980's. For example, there is East Germany's Marita Kosch's 400m record of 47.60 set back in 1985. Czech Jarmila Kratochvílová still has the 800m world record that was 1:53.28 set back in 1983. She also held the 400m word record in 1983 but Kosch broke it in 1985.
As we know that period (1980's) was tainted by doping and it shows just how advantageous performance enhancing drugs are given that nutrition, sports science and technology have come a long way in the past 30+ years.
For the current records being broken it might be a combination of athletes feeling refreshed and 2020 was supposed to be an Olympic year so everybody is trying to peak for the right time.
