Because the outside lanes are longer than the inside lanes.
And no, being in the outside lane is certainly not an advantage, it is in fact a disadvantage which is why in finals the slowest qualifier gets put in that lane. When you're in the outside lane you can't see how anyone else is doing, first time you see someone will be as they pass you and then they're well ahead of you.
The best lanes are the middle ones where you can see more of the race, and those go to the people who qualify fastest.
In all races around a curve where the runners stay in their lanes the outside lanes must get a head start on the inside lanes because they run a longer distance. When they get to the finish line they have all run the same distance.
It is a disadvantage, to be in the far outside lanes, or the first lane, however, people have won from those lanes.
The starting blocks have to be placed with lane eight through one so that the inside line of each lane is the same length from start to finish, The finish line has to be straight across the track, the same for each runner, so each man or woman runs the same distance and ends at the same line as all the res
of the runners.
can someone explain why do they put some people ahead of others doesnt that give some advantage to them? i know that the since they are running in circles it doesnt matter but i don't know..
