[crustaceansoup]

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.

[teruakohatu]

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.

[klyrs]

A bomb on a pair of deadman switches? You don't need modern tech...

[philipwhiuk]

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