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In September the 2011 Belgacom Memorial Van Damme will certainly have a world first in staging a "reverse" 400.
This idea was suggested by Professor Dirk Huylebrouck. Along with one of his students, the athlete Nils Duerinck, he is intrigued by the fact that track races are always run counterclockwise.
Could this also be reversed? And, if so, will the athletes run faster or slower. On 16 Sep some Belgian 400m runners will try out the event in the King Baudouin Stadium.