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Originally Posted by stevew
Two completely random thoughts I just had about the Catelyn Jenner thing-
1. When Bruce won the gold medal, he did it in Montreal in Olympic Stadium. The same Olympic Stadium that was such a piece of shit that the Expos left 10 years ago. That's how long ago the exploits on the track and field occurred. A state of the art stadium morphed into a dump
2. What's up with the decathalon. From the times I've watched, each individual event doesn't completely matter that much and most importantly the 1500M usually ends with some dude running at a reasonable pace but he's only running against the clock. The competition doesn't matter because the actual race has such limited stakes. As long as runner X runs a 4:45 1500 he gets a gold. Even if that puts him 7th in this race.
-my proposal.
Let's make the 1500M race mean something. I'm not exactly sure how to totally do the math, but somehow take the relationship between finish times and points needed and scale it out in such a manner that the person leading the event thru 9 competitions gets a significant proportional head start. If he needs to run X time, we allocate that into some formula and his 1500M is actually only 1214M. And the guys so far back may need to run 2300M. Anyways, we put everyone on the track and it's winner take all. If some dude makes up a 400M deficit, then crown his ass. Regardless, whomever crosses line first gets the gold.
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I actually like the staggered start idea...but your assessment of the 1500 isn't completely accurate. It has more to do with how far back the leader is from the competition in the 1500. Basically, he wants to say within X seconds of the challengers to make sure they don't overtake him in points. However, often the event is decided to the point that it is pretty much irrelevant what the leader's time is in the 1500. A good example of a close Decathlon 1500 was the one Rafer Johnson won over C K Yang. In the 1500 he knew he needed to stay close to Yang in order to win the gold medal.