Dark secrets, helpless riddle rates, valid explanations: The fabulous athletics records and best times on the running tape in the Olympic race in Tokyo are amazed in the face of dimensions. You throw the question: how does that work? There are three plausible reasons for the performance jumps: the softening, energy-reciprocating career in the Olympic Stadium, high-tech spikes and the talent of athletes. Added to this is the practice: also doping!
In 45.94 seconds, the Norwegian Karsten Warholm over 400 meters hurden the 46-second sound wall and in its so-called RAI Benjamin (46,17) and Alison Dos Santos (46,72) in the absolute border area of the discipline. It was as if Warholm's sensational time "has been achieved" with reduced gravity on the moon ", the" new Zurich newspaper "writes.
A spotless moon landing also came close to the 51.46 seconds, which also ran the American Sydney McLaughlin on Wednesday also over 400 meters hurdles. Thus, the 21-year-old improved her world record set at the end of June by 44 hundredths of hundredths. As a second, ex-world recorder Dalilah Muhammad (USA / 51,58) remained clear under the old top. Bronze with the European Card of 52.03 seconds took the Dutchman Femke Bol.
Thrubricant like never before
Instead of bringing extraterrestrial forces into the game, one must first stay with the ground - on the runway developed by the Italian company Mondo in three-year tuning in the Olympic Stadium of Tokyo. She should give thrust like never before.
This train regenerates the movement and returns them.
Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin
The surface consists of three-dimensional rubber boners, which enable a shock absorption and energy return, such as "at a trampoline,", Mondo developer Andrea Vallauri explained the "New York Times". This is confirmed by McLaughlin: "Some trains simply absorb the impact and the movement. This regenerates them here and gives them back." The Italian company has conceived twelve Olympic railways. The Tokyo model is the racer.
Much had not missed and Elaine Thompson-Hermah would become immortal on the pad. In 10.61 seconds over 100 meters she came as close to the ancient world record of Florence Griffith Joyner (USA / 10,49) as no other previously. It was not on the train. "I could have walked faster if I had not shown and celebrated so early on the finish line," said the Jamaican, who made more than 200 meters in 21.53 seconds for the fast underground at her victory over 200 meters.
"As soon as you stand on the train, let your magic run wild. That's madness," said Lisa Marie Kwayie for her out of the 200-meter semifinals over the overmighty competitors. The Berliner became last 23.42 seconds.
132 grams
The race for records and top times for eternity is also accelerated by modern high-tech footwear. Reactive foams, carbon fibers and carbon plates are the materials that make out of no more than 132 grams of spikes with titanium thorns a Formula 1 shoe for sprinters: with springback and thus forward drive.
Lightning fast path, fast spikes: Italy also benefited Italy's Sprint Olympic Champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who improved the European Card over 100 meters from nothing in 9.80 seconds. Unexpectedly transported in the athletics but also concrete doubts, whether records and victories are based on technical progress, training and talent - or help them with forbidden funds.
In the pandemic there were months in which the global anti-doping system standstill. "That opened doors," emphasizes the German athlete spokesman Max Hartung. The International Olympic Committee initiated the most extensive pre-Olympic control program last six months with the help of the International Test Agency (ITA). From 25 000 recommendations, which Olympic starter when, where and how often should be tested, around 80 percent were implemented according to ITA.
Doping: Ten athletes from Nigeria
Especially many doping sinners were found in Nigeria, namely ten athletes. A case like that of the sprinteriner and long-jumper blessing octagable shows how presumably thoughtless everything is taken for illegal success. It was positively tested for the Tokyo games in a doping control to the human growth hormone and taken from the starter field.
"In the many cases, I have the impression that the growth hormone on a scientifically not easily demonstrable way a performance increase is effected and a kind of full-body doping is," explains Doping expert Fritz Sörgel. "It promotes fat loss, which is also advantageous for the performance." However, it also promotes the idea that despite expensive anti-doping measures much in secret is possible.