400meteroval.com Poll: Should the 60m ZigZag Be An Olympic Event?
Posted by Jimmie R. Markham | July 31, 2008
An Oregon man has invented a new track event that he claims measures quickness:
With the idea of fitting his event into the current track and field setup, Da Silva eventually created what he calls the 60-meter zigzag.
The design Da Silva decided on can fit into four lanes on a standard track.
And while it is only 60 meters long, it involves much more than just sprinting in a straight line. Each lane consists of markers on the track that the competitors have to cut back and forth between.
“It is sort of like a sprint slalom,” Da Silva says. “So it would be very fast, and it would involve cuts to the right and left and variations on how they would cut, so it’s not just left-right, left-right.”
He estimates that 34 seconds would be a very good time in the event.
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