TOKYO: A stack of Olympic and possibly world records will be broken on the Tokyo track over the next two weeks but, such has been the incredible impact of shoe technology on performance lately, that nobody quite knows what constitutes great any more.
On the roads, 17 of the 20 fastest men's marathon times in history have been set in the last five years and, coincidentally, it is the same case for women over the distance. The effect is not being felt only over long distances, either. Elliot Giles smashed Sebastian Coe's British indoor 800m record this year as his 1:43.62 became the second-fastest of all time.
American students Cooper Teare and Cole both ran 3.50 for the mile in a February indoor race and found themselves improbably catapulted into the top 10 of all time, slipping in just ahead of Olympic champion Matt Centrowitz and former world record holder Noureddine Morceli.
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