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In 2021, one athlete specializing in this distance controversially called out his rival for wearing “bullshit” super spikes made by Nike. Edwin Moses changed the conventions of an event of this distance by pioneering a uniform “13 step” stride pattern. At the 2016 Olympics, despite “running blind on the outside”, (-5[1])Wayde Van Niekerk (15[1])won a gold medal in a race of this distance. At the 2020 Olympics, Dalilah Muhammad broke the (*) world record in a race of this distance but lost to an even better time from (-5[1])Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. At the 2012 Olympics, Oscar Pistorius qualified (10[1])to compete for South Africa in a solo event of this distance. The Norwegian Karsten Warholm (-5[1])holds the world record in, for 10 points, what distance equal to one lap (10[1])of an Olympic (10[2])regulation track? ■END■ (10[3])

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