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Also note that anyone in the top 10 gets qualification for the Olympics under the new rules. That is they don't need the 2:11/2:29 time to get in--so it would be up to the respective country who gets to go. The upshot of that is hope that a bunch get into the top 10.
Gun times are dumb.
Just rewatching for the first time on NBC Sports. I was giving rojo crap earlier, but yeah, the first half really is unwatchably bad. Every time there was a shot of the runners, the picture would immediately glitch up or they'd cut away after like 10 seconds. The rest was all wheelchairs + a shit ton of commercials. They completely missed Degefa's early break and most of the early jostling in the men's field. It's unfortunate that people paid 75 bucks primarily to follow that shit.
Joanie (Benoit Samuelson) 3:04 chip, 3:05:18* gunGene Dykes (70) 2:58*on Joanie, is it a record or not? Here are the rules, they (IAAF and USATF) say that records are by gun time. So her record won't be a record by gun time (old record 3:05:10), but it is by chip time. What will it be?