 So So It's gonna be real here. I hope no one in the room is a race walker And I know there was a PAX keynote where you're not supposed to shit on anyone else's joy I'm gonna shit all over racewalk And it deserves it. Racewalking is a sport Technically, where you walk as fast as possible And by walking the rules are that you have to keep your front legs straight and at least one foot has to be Touching the ground then you get the point. That's the difference between you know like a horse a horse has like a gallop and a tree You know about horses in Texas, right? So horses have different gates a human has different gates to We have walking we have walking skipping jogging running just like, you know a horse right so all of them except for walking Involved at some point during the leg motion both feet being off the ground at the same time when you skip you have a little jump When you jog you sort of have that moment where you switch legs and there's a time period and they were both legs And when you run you're basically jumping forward right with each step only with walking are both feet always on the ground at all Times or at least one of the two is on the ground so and people might have already noticed this thought what's going on here What is going on there zoom and enhance? That is the picture on Wikipedia About race walking It turns out that everyone cheats at race walking because if you truly walk and keep one at least one foot on the ground at all times There's a limit to how fast you can go obviously you can calculate it by the length of your legs So race walking without cheating would simply be a leg measuring contest who has the longest leg We can do that a little bit faster with a tape measure. We can indeed I Mean you might get tired if the race walk is really long Okay, it is actually pretty tiring Sure be fair it is but depending on the marathon length the rules of a race walking He's not got bad officiating and soccer soccer is fine compared to this The judges are not allowed to bend over to look more closely the judges are not allowed to use cameras They're not allowed to use mirrors They're not allowed to use binoculars and they have to like go talk to each other and use this flag system To even detect that someone's cheating and report it up and disqualify someone and of a cheating person crosses The finish line before the judges take action. They win you can't do anything about it So if you're here to finish line of a race walk just freaking sprint What are they gonna do race walking is an Olympic sport