The fastest human on the planet might be a quadrupedal runner at the 2048 Olympics, which may be achieved by shifting up to the rotary gallop and taking longer strides with wide sagittal trunk motion. More generally, investigation of quadrupedal running will not only result in the development of new techniques that allow biomechanists to study locomotion in natural settings but will also reveal the underlying principles of how these runners accomplish their astonishing performances.
I imagine that would be really tough on your hands, unless you had weird shoe-like gloves.
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Boxing gloves, with track cleats on the knuckles.
good luck with those wrists
Yeah, an olympic-class quadruped runner is going to have gorilla fists.
I think they would need a hard, form-fitting, elbow-length glove, to move as much force as possible off of the fingers and wrists.