No, a larger stagger is needed. In a 400 m race, runners navigate two bends on a 400 m track but four bends on a 200 m track, requiring twice the total stagger distance.
In my school, the playground is too small to have a 400 m track, so the school constructed a 200 m track instead. Does this mean that we need a smaller stagger for the race tracks in my school (i.e., smaller than the stagger used in the Olympics), for the same 4 x 100 m relay race?
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