Kenyan, almost about the 1937 world record of Sydney Wooedon of 4: 06.4, a brave attempt but convicted of breaking four minutes for the mile
Protected by a flotilla or pacemaker and driven by Nike’s latest shoes and clothes, the brave Faith Kipyegon gave her the best opportunity on One Mile’s classic distance in Paris on Thursday (June 26). It was the ‘lunarshot’ that the organizers expected, but if you reach the stars, at least you will hit your head on the roof.
With a presentation of Crowingworthy that would not have been out of place a few kilometers down The rue In Disneyland Paris, combined with an objective that, always beyond, was also Kipyegon’s rare skill, this could have ended more ‘breaking bad’ than ‘Breaking4’. But when he beat his best record and 4: 07.64 previous with 4: 06.42, it was a face savings action.
Like the physiologists of the University of Exeter that helped to predict correctly that some weekly had, there is no living woman who currently has the physiological armament to break four minutes, but, Professor Andy Jones, he said to said AwWe could see Kipyegon pushing even more towards the four -minute barrier. And he demonstrated it.
Carl Lewis was at his best on Thursday night when he described the four minutes as a wall. “Faith has just eliminated some bricks,” he concluded.
Keely Hodgkinson was impressive as a companion Breaking4 Pundit on the Live Event Broadcast and perhaps the female subinute Miler of the future will have to possess Mild The speed combined with the Kipyegon resistance son has.
Notly, in the period before the event, Kipyegon only competed once, with a 1000 m race in China, where he handled a four -minute rhythm of four minutes. Duration A curious ‘press conference’ online a few days before the attempt of mile, orchestrated by Nike with his host asking all the questions, Kipyegon did not seem particularly with. Neether made his coach, Patrick Sang, on the eve of the event.
There were more warning signs. The training, he admitted, had not changed in recent months. “I’m also praying a lot,” he added.
Those who refused to believe that the hype turned out to be correct. In my previous view, I suggested that Kipyegon would fight to break the best of 4: 07.64, much less the four -minute barrier a scare.
After the violent winds and the lighting attacks arrived in Paris the night before the Kipyegon counterreloj, his career proved to be calm after the storm instead of the fantastic sub-four performance of the casualty that Nike had dreamed. Certainly, it is unlikely that the final episode of the Amazon Prime Tres Parter in the attempt, which is due in July, becomes viral.
Breaking4 in Paris was very different from May 29 in 1954 when Diane Leather became the first woman to execute a mile of less than five minutes. On that occasion, its 4: 59.6 happened in the Humble Midland Women’s Championships on an ash track in Perry Barr in Birmingham with archaic spikes, without pacemaker and barely advertising. The leather also became the races when executing a record of the United Kingdom in the 800m or 2: 14.1 less than an hour before.
Years later, female athletics has great advances forward and a woman will achieve a mile of less than four minutes someday. Simply not yet.
On Thursday in Paris, Kipyegon not only fought to match the iconic 3: 59.4 of Roger Bannister of 1954, but could not overcome the world record of 4: 06.4 ‘by Sydney Wooerson of 4: 06.4’ in a powerful powerful park.
Perhaps there lies the secret of a future attempt in Breaking4? Instead of using pacemakers to protect you from the wind, perhaps the female of the future sub-four minute of the future is not to persecute Insead.
