Just the first prank? Sydney McLaughlin aims to break the 400m world record this Friday.
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Will Marita Koch break the 400m world record? In an interview, national coach Jörg Möckel talks about the effect of the shoes, competitive pressure in training and deficits in sports funding in Germany.
Mr. Möckel, you are the national coach for the women’s 400 meters. Is the women’s 400m world record due this year, maybe even this week? Sydney McLaughlin, who broke the world record in the 400m hurdles three times, eventually to 50.68 seconds, aims to run the 400m flat in Paris on Friday.
Actually, that’s impossible. We all know what an incredible athlete Marita Koch was…
She has held the world record of 47.60 seconds since 1985.
For me it would be absolute madness to break it. We don’t have to talk about the sports system of that time.
