Instead, some of the Boston Marathon on Monday autopsies bogged down in another discussion tedious why time winner of the Mutai of Geoffrey Kenyan, an amazing 2 hours 3 minutes 2 seconds, was not a record of the world but simply a "better world" or "the fastest Boston never" or a "" document classes"."
The fact that the rules which prohibited the performance of Mutai is accepted as a world record ratified for decades, long after that the courts of Boston had won acceptance in the world for its Heartbreak Hill and other monuments of suburban Hopkinton Boylston Streetseemed relevant.
Mutai time does not count as a world record because the course of Boston is not a race of point to point and the overall decrease in the elevation of the course is greater that the Association of Athletics Federations, governing body of the of the track and lawn world, allows a way forward. Technical aspects and inconsistencies, seems, are always strange partners in the sport of athletics. Even in high schools, the standard distance for the equivalent of one mile run is a 1,600 metre race, not the distance metric internationally recognized 1,500.
"There are standards for records," Robert M. Hersh, vice President of the I.A.A.F. said Monday evening by telephone in the defence of the policies of the association. "There is the criteria for the records."
But a rule stipulates that a start and end can be separated by more than 50 percent of the race (to deter raids and tracks wind-assisted courses) or have a decrease in altitude exceeds 1 metre per kilometre hardly acknowledges the history of Bostonhills or relatively constant winning times (difference) of recognized as flatter, faster in Berlin, London or Rotterdam.
A more likely explanation behind the events of Monday is that today ' hui accomplished Marathon, especially Kenyans and Ethiopians train altitude, over mountainous terrain and punishing training sessions, were behind the course and negated even the need for leaderswhich are inadmissible in Boston, to cushion their workload at the beginning.
This emergence has not really begun by before the 1968 Olympic Games, which took place at high altitude of Mexico City. Yes, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia had run barefoot along the way to Olympic gold in Rome eight years earlier. But when Kipchoge Keino buried American middle-distance wonder boy, Jim Ryun, in the 1,500, and other African swept the marathon and the steeple, the pendulum had begun to move.
The American Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers and Alberto Salazar retained a measure of order in the marathon until the introduction of prize money and riders introduced African youth races on road in even greater numbers. African women carved even their own identity and despite previous cultural boundaries.
Mutai was winner of the 18th Kenyan men to Boston in the past 21 years. No American, man or woman, has won in Boston since Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 1985 while Ryan Hall also beat the record Monday with the fastest run by an American, 2: 04: 58, finishing fourth.
"When I was coming to Boston, I not trying to beat the world record," Mutai told journalists after the race. "I was not trying to beat the world record." "But I see it as a gift of God."
Interestingly, Salazar, a three time champion of the Marathon in New York and a respected coach of some of the best marathon runners in America, took position of purists on the question of whether time Mutai should be certified as a world record.
"I accept in fact should not be counted," Salazar said by e-mail. "The descent of the course nature coupled with the wind today (a tailwind of 21-mile-per hour) which helps only on a point to point course gives an advantage of two minutes.". If this time has been allowed, soon marathons could be formulated with these benefits in mind and times would be much faster.
"It is a course in Utah already which is about four minutes faster than a legal tender." It would be wrong in this sport with lower athletic performance considered best. ?
Boston officials were satisfied with the race and the content to leave the "definition" of cases as of Monday.
But the real beneficiaries of record-setting Monday Boston will be among the nearly 27,000 runners who came from afar with personal Records that they can carry with them without concern of asterisks, certifications, testing or governing bodies. Of countless others who were shut out when the race field in eight hours will be wonder if.
"I was angry today," Dr. Stephen Brunnquell said by telephone Monday evening at his home in Park Harrington, N.J. Brunnquell, 55, who had planned to run for a third time Boston, it stop me despite having a qualifying time and sign hours from Boston after registration opened last October.
Brunnquell has something hastily, however. Him and her son, 22 years, Chris, who is a graduate of Tufts University, have been accepted in the New York City Marathon in November.
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