Originally posted by Spartacus Sully
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If you put Jesse Owens in those light weight shoes and tight aerodynamic uniforms its only going to make him faster. A modern runner going into Owens cumbersome gear would lose speed and control.
In most scenearios Id favor the old timer with new equipment over the pampered contemporary with crude old stuff.
Imagine if you gave old Issac Newton access to a calculator? Hed lap every modern mathematician in less than a month.
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