But what makes the spectacle work is the combination of a medium-paced court with a fast ball and fast athletes.
Speaking ahead of this week's London World Cup, which could see Hoy and Kenny go head to head at the Olympic Velodrome for the first time, Sutton said: "You've got a very speedy, young athlete, super-fast athlete, current world champion.
Nobody minds that cars can outrun the fastest athlete, or that cranes can lift heavier weights than the strongest man.
Tyson Gay is the USA's 100m record holder and is the second fastest athlete ever, after Usain Bolt.
The first major sprint showdown of the season will take place at the Gateshead International Stadium tomorrow afternoon as the fastest man in the world this year, Asafa Powell, takes on the second fastest athlete of all time, Tyson Gay.
Instead Chambers has been performing consistently and winning medals – world indoor silver over 60m in 2008, and European indoor gold last year with a European record of 6.42 that confirmed him as the third fastest athlete over 60m of all time.
Usain Bolt is used to surfing a wave of teenage-crush adulation from packed crowds but the muted apathy of a half-empty stadium failed to distract the world's fastest athlete as he cruised through to the semi-finals of the men's 100m.
The women's 100m on Saturday will see another intriguing clash when Carmelita Jeter, the second fastest athlete of all time at the distance, takes on Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the fastest woman in the world over 100m in 2012.
His 200 m time of 19.58 makes him the fifth fastest athlete in that event.
