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Are middle lanes fastest in track and field? Data from 8,000 racers shows not so much

  • Written by David R. Munro, Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury
imageThe fastest runners are usually rewarded with the middle lanes. Michael H/Stone vie Getty Images

As a short-distance track and field runner in high school and college, I often found myself wondering which of the eight or sometimes nine lanes on the track was the fastest. It was conventional wisdom that the middle lanes – lanes three through...

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