I wonder what Phil McMullan started out as?
Dan Kaplan wrote:
NONE was ever a 800 m specialist. Obviously, no women decathlete will
ever arise from among the skinny 1500 m runner.
It isn't uncommon at the college level, so there's no reason it can't
happen at the pro level. Runyan went the opposite direction with very
good success, so there has to be *some* cross over potential there.
Dan
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The 1500 m table is obviously meant at heptathletes, hence the
relatively easy limit.
In reality, Heptathletes are of different stocks. Some are excellent
printers/jumpers. Others were very good at the shot or the javelin with
acceptable performance in the sprint/hurdles.
NONE was ever a 800 m specialist. Obviously, no women decathlete will
ever arise from among the skinny 1500 m runner.
That is a major reason reason why this interesting statistical
manipulation bears no similarity to the reality of an actual
one-competitor multi-event.
If so, why use the table for combined events? If one truly wants to
compare ability overall between countries, other tables, not those for
combined events, should be used.
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