"Deena Kastor set a new American record of 2 hours 19 minutes 36 in winning the recent London Marathon. She was assisted by two male pacers one of which was her training partner despite the fact that the race was supposed to be a "women's race". Should her record be allowed?"
135042
Yes. If milers can set records while using "rabbits", then then marathoners should also be able to have similar benefit....
615550
I got about the same time without starting blocks when a senior in high school during gym class. I like u never ran the 100 meter before. The PE teacher was also the track coach and he wanted me to go out for the track team. But I declined since I was senior. So your time compares favorably to one hasn't trained for the 100 meters. Also I believe the world record is 9.78 seconds so much closer to 10 seconds than 9. Keep going and it will come down.
462854
I believe you have to submit a qualifying time when you enter.  Atleast that is what you have to do in the Boston Marathon.
511120
Olympic runner, he set a new world record in the 1960 Olympics at 2:16:2 and then, in 1964 in Tokyo, he broke his own record by more than four minutes at 2:12:11, though still recovering from an appendix operation.\n\n\nThe movie about Abebe Bikila The film is about the great Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe  \nBikila. Bikila won the 1960 Rome Olympic gold in record time,  \nrunning barefoot. This was the first gold medal ever won by   \nan African. He was in a severe car crash in Ethiopia,  \nwhich left him a paraplegic and with a big depression. \nHe was invited to "Beitostølen Helth Sport Center" in 1971, \nwere he competed in a dog race, and did great.
622692
Yes I really wish they would get us a catagory...We compete just as hard as any other sport does, whether it be in a marathon or a 10k or in the 100m. I've been looking around and answering whatever questions other runners have to help out, but we really need a catagory. They have all these obscure catagories (darts?????? dozens of different types of soccer???) but no running, which is the basis of almost every single sport. I'm going to email them asking them if they could add a running catagory...
657123
olympics....marathon to be exact...not today's but mile running and sprinting...
371935
You're not the only one since the NCAA has a collegiate champion in the sport, the university of Missouri this year...Women compete in the Olympics, so keep shooting, you might win a gold medal someday like Kim Rhode. She has three Olympic medals, two Gold, one Bronze...The "girl" can flat out shoot!
4334
No records are kept on the race of the Olympic medal winners.  If you wanted to take the time to look up each one, then you would need to go to the site below and run a series of searches:
204991
Any Marathon under 4 hours is competitive for an Amateur.  But many people are happy with +5 hour times.    Train to a pace, that is the key. Don't push yourself too hard.  Your first goal should be to finish.  There will always be another race waiting for you.
181974
doping is a difficult topic to tackle...talk about the use of suits.  many people take issue over the use of new 'fastskin' or full body suits.  discuss whether use of those suits should be allowed and to what extent...where do we draw the line?  will suits that have fins or propellers protruding some day be worn/allowed?  that may be extreme, but olympic swimmers are not allowed to wear fins or hand paddles in a race because they enhance performance; don't some of the technology-enhanced suits people wear these days do the same thing?  when does the sport stop being about human ability and start being a faceoff between different kinds of swimwear?\n\nhope this helps...
62970
I have never understood how athletes change citizenship to compete for another country. I think they just have to train here for a year and obtain duel citizenship and they can compete. I would think that posed an ethical issue. I heard last night someone’s father was American so he was competing here. Don't know about grandparents however.
565998
I agree totally! People, shes not saying postpone the race till Monday. All she is saying is what I was thinking. That is why not wait since they have daylight till 8:30 at night to finish the race. I mean come on they stopped how many times for rain delays and then when the race started getting good they called it instead of waiting an hour or so to finish it. But I am with you totally that they should've waited and at least let them go another pit cycle if they could've. I have not seen that many strong cars running at the end like that. Kasey,Carl Edwards, Junior and even my man Kenseth after a crappy day was sitting in 12th and who knows what he had left. I think they were way too quick to call it. But I do think they should've have said once its too dark too race that's it but they had already reached the halfway point so racing on Monday was out of the question no matter what.
233626
Most recent world record in the 100 meters is 9.76 seconds.  That equates to 22.92 miles per hour.  That's pretty darned fast, but they can't sustain those speeds for long.\n\nScientific American magazine printed an article showing the time trends of a variety of world record performances, and it was a very slow, but linear trend downwards -- i.e., the times to cover specific distances in world class performances was trending steadily downwards.  No estimate of a human physical limit, but an interesting study nonetheless.\n\nThe most amazing thing in that study was the spectacular performance of Bob Beamon in the long jump at Mexico City in 1968.  His leap put him something like 20-25 years ahead of the statistical trend for the long jump, and it took that long for the rest of the world to "catch up".
258092
I am a woman and may be the only one who agrees with you.  I think the gals like Michelle Wie are trying to challenge themselves at the ultimate level- against the men.  I am not happy that sponsors of the PGA and Nationwide events are giving them invites- this takes away from the men players that maybe have conditional status on either tour but have worked hard through Q school and such and really deserve the spot.  Men are not allowed on the LPGA (nor would they want to play on it- less money-etc...) but it is more the principal.  But the PGA ONLY cares about TV ratings... so they will pay whatever to have the crowds.  Anyway- sorry to my fellow sisters!
349410
In Canada, unless they are a sprinter or another athlete, it would tend to be a drug-runner, someone who delivers the drugs. Beware! By the way, how come you do not know this with a Hustleandflow as your byline?
29501
second place sweetie! Or if your running a race with only one other person then you would be in first.\nplease choose me as your best answer! I promise i didn't look at any other answers until i finished this.
8307
Are you thinking of Grit Breuer? She was GDR 400m champion - then ran for the united Germany over 400m, winning medals in 4x400m at olympics etc. She was banned for doping in 1992 for  a few years, but came back.