Catch Me If You Can

Bazile | 15:09 Sun 13th Aug 2017 | Sport

15 Answers

How do they determine if a walker is not jogging in the walking race ?

Do they look at a sample in slow motion of each athlete?

Hurry Bolt Pulled-Up And Won Nothing In The Relay!

Oodersfield Toown Lead The Premiership, Who'd Have Thought It?

Answers

1 to 15 of 15

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by Bazile. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.

dannyk13

Experience I suppose.The walker must have one heel and the other toe on the ground at the same time. Not easy to spot, I've tried it.

Mamyalynne

https://www.economist.com/blogs/gametheory/2016/08/running

dannyk13

http://www.racewalkingassociation.org.uk/Rule230.html

Bazile

Question Author

Do they make a judgement at normal speed ?

Bazile

Question Author

No video review ?

Mamyalynne

IAAF may be able to answer more in depth queries or a Racewalking Blog.

ToraToraTora

they must be touching the ground at all times but it's well known that many times they are not if you slow down the video.

ToraToraTora

it seems that to be running leaving the ground must be discernable to the human eye.

fiction-factory

I'm not sure why this event has survived, but some must enjoy doing it and I suppose it's no more unusual than say the pole vault, although the latter is entertaining and the skills are to be admired- whereas this fast walking just looks silly

douglas9401

It's always looked like a recipe for arthritis in later years to me.

To answer the question posed though, I believe the key criterion is that a contestant must appear to be looking desperately for a toilet but unwilling to stop if they find one to be judged to be walking.

ToraToraTora

PMSL Doug, they always look like their hips are coming out of the sockets to me

Old_Geezer

Surely no more unusual than the hop, skip, and jump. Wonder what they opted to leave out when designing that event. Headstand ? Cartwheel ? Backwards flip ? Pirouette ?