Let’s hear it from the horse’s mouth (f.ex from Karsten Warholm) who in an interview with Norwegian press a couple of years after his first WC gold (and about two years before his 45.94) said this (I recite after memory): “Benjamin and Samba are taller than me, and leaner, and more athletic and talented, but I am going to do my best…” (No sign of him joking).
Saying that I won’t even guess what the future holds, and we also got McMaster and Dos Santos among others. -Could also be fun if all the guys ran a 400m flat in peak form -think some pb’s here are grossly underperformed (Warholm lost his NR to a lean, tall, athletic 20 years old kn 2023 -who crushed his time with half a second in the WC semis).
And what about an 800m, given Rai’s 600m time as a seventeen years old, and Karsten’s endurance training… (He still thinks he can beat Jakob, given som specific training, and the latter still laughs, dissing him: “ He’s even struggling to hold a 400m; he’s just a sprinter!”…)