Look, this is properly a… life science post… because I think it at least approaches what must be a biological hard limit, for human speed, at four hundred meters — over hurdles.
Consider that the prior world record stood for 33 years, then along she comes — and knocks a full second off of it (at the last Olympics!), on her first “real try” — and then proceeds to better her own mark, in three more successive world stage outings, over just the last two years.
But now, as of yesterday, at 2022 Worlds — in Eugene Oregon’s glorious facility, she’s taken it to where each of her successive 100 meters… would have been a world record on their own, just two decades ago, in womens’ competition.
And she does it for 400 meters… straight. At some point, as a once in a generation athlete, she is likely to show us where the biological limit is, for speed, in this event — as Usain Bolt had, about 15 years ago in the mens’ 100.
Here is to all the great things, both on-, and off- the track — this gifted young human will achieve. Grinning ear to ear.
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