Ok, after having slept (poorly) on it and in the spirit of an "old man shouting at a cloud" I've decided to not recognize any of the WRs including and since the breaking2 sham on 12th October 2019 for several reasons, namely;
So as much as I'd like to bring 'data to this values fight', it boils down to this ... all the WRs for <5000m are >5 years old (with most actually 10-20 years old) and using pre-breaking2 tech, yet all the ones >=5000m were >10 years old until they all got broken this year by dudes wearing new / secret shoe tech and without any out of competition drug testing. How much it is the shoes or doping we'll never know but because I have access to neither, and because I have to draw a line somewhere lest condoning the erosion of what was a once beautiful and symmetrical 'breaking50' goal, I will consider all the times including and since 12th October 2019 to have an asterisk (*) next to them and I am ignoring them. There, I've said it. Damn you clouds!!!
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