这些孩子们：田径成绩膨胀背后的代价

lighting the most ludicrous examples of trackflation, lose his mind. “Nah, bro, nah, bro, no way!” he began his Instagram post. “Bro, nobody was even in the camera with her, bro. There was other people in the race. I didn’t see nobody.” (“She was in my heat,” wrote one commenter, a seventh grader from North Carolina who ran her personal best in the race. “I didn’t see her once, she was so far ahead.”) To many longtime track observers, however, the video was a cause for alarm. Multiple coaches and researchers told me this particular world record crystallized their fears for the safety of young runners who feel compelled to keep topping their peers. …