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by crustaceansoup 704 days ago
It's an open secret that "cheating" (i.e. not having both feet planted) is ubiquitous, to the point that since 1996 the official rule is now "not naked-eye visible loss of contact, or visibly bent knee". You can watch any slow-motion video of racewalkers and they seem to lose contact on every stride.
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And they seem to break that break even that very loose rule when they think they can get away with it. With cheap modern tech I am sure they could enforce the contact rules.
A bomb on a pair of deadman switches? You don't need modern tech...
Yeh there was a lot of consternation in the sport the other year because it's now very easy to enforce but all the current pros would be DQ'd