Everywhere you looked on this deliriously balmy Parisian night, world records were being attacked, toppled, torn apart.
Officially there was a 20,000-capacity crowd in the Stade Charléty. But as the fans stood and stomped and roared while Faith Kipyegon, Lamecha Girma, and Jakob Ingebrigtsen powered to three world records – although Ingebrigtsen’s one is technically regarded as a “world best” by World Athletics – they sounded like three times that. All in all, it made for an astonishing hors doeuvres before next year’s Olympics.
