IAAF Hall of Fame standards = ridiculous

toro wrote:

In the high hurdles, Renaldo Nehemiah, Greg Foster and Allen Johnson would not be eligible.

Allen Johnson has an Olympic Gold, four WC golds and missed the WR by 0.01 seconds.

If you used the criteria I proposed, then both Nehemiah & Foster could be included.

Nehemiah won the 79 World Cup, which should count as an equivalent to a World title. He also broke the WR twice. The lack of a 2nd global title can be replaced by the fact that he was world ranked NO.1 4 times.

Likewise Foster, who lacked a WR can replace this with the fact he was ranked No.1 5 times. He also acquired something like 120 world ranking points from 1977 to 1992!

Lets say that an athlete has to acquire 3 No. 1 world rankings to replace each global gold or world record they lack. Or else, say over 100 world ranking points.

So, rather than get rid of the 2 global golds plus 2 word records criteria, keep them but include 2 further criteria. Thus there are 4 criteria from which to draw from.

DontFeedTheTroll wrote:

Paula Radcliffe is not eligible under these rules (unless she gets a Gold in London, which I think we have to agree is a bit of a long shot). Neither are Joan Benoit, Ingrid Kristiansen, or Grete Waitz.

So, the rules exclude four of the greatest female marathon runners ever. The rules are, therefore, nonsense. They are crap. They are bogus and foolish.

Radcliffe is not eligible as she is still competing, as is Catherine Ndereba, but Ndereba will meet all the criteria after she retires.

In an event with such a short Olympic and world championship history as the women's marathon, we shouldn't expect as large a number of eligible candidates as in other events.

There are probably a number of men and women, that might have been able to improve their chances of eligibility, if they ran in more world championship races. But instead, they ran for the money in big city marathons. It is not the job of the IAAF Hall of Fame to reward those runners that made that choice. I'm sure they were well rewarded at the time.

someone had to do it wrote:

No Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter, Roger Bannister, Bill Rodgers, Joanie Benoit, Mary Slaney....

Slaney won two world championship gold medals in 1983, and set world records at virtually every distance from the mile to 10,000 meters.

DontFeedTheTroll wrote:

Paula Radcliffe is not eligible under these rules (unless she gets a Gold in London, which I think we have to agree is a bit of a long shot).

I didn't see anything that limited the gold medals to the Olympics and the outdoor world track and field championships. If world championships in cross country, indoor track, and road racing are all included, then Radcliffe, Paul Tergat, and probably quite a number of other athletes will also become eligible.

This is a Joke. It's all planned to venerate the inmaculate and impollute(?) figure of Carl Lewis.

Except for his positive test covered by USADA prior to Seoul.

Beggers.

So Henry Rono, who because of politics, never will be eligible. 4 World records and all of them held for at least 4 years and one for 11 years.

And Said Aouita in 1984-1989 was the biggest 5000 meter star in the World, but he only has one Gold and one Bronze in the Olympics and one Gold in the World Championships.

Hall of Fame's are stupid.

BarakusObama wrote:

This is a Joke. It's all planned to venerate the inmaculate and impollute(?) figure of Carl Lewis.

Except for his positive test covered by USADA prior to Seoul.

USADA didn't even exist prior to Seoul.

Avocado's Number wrote:

BarakusObama wrote:

This is a Joke. It's all planned to venerate the inmaculate and impollute(?) figure of Carl Lewis.

Except for his positive test covered by USADA prior to Seoul.

USADA didn't even exist prior to Seoul.

break it up wrote:

So Henry Rono, who because of politics, never will be eligible. 4 World records and all of them held for at least 4 years and one for 11 years.

And Said Aouita in 1984-1989 was the biggest 5000 meter star in the World, but he only has one Gold and one Bronze in the Olympics and one Gold in the World Championships.

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Hall of Fame's are stupid.

So Aouita is éligible! Tout have go have 2 golden from either Olympic OR worlds. He has one from each, which makes 2. He also has 5 world records. So he's definitely in at some stage.

BarakusObama wrote:

I'm talking about Wade Exum anyways. He was at USADA years later and he said nothing about that. Sure...when USADA kicked his #ss off the chair, he said everything and now is a media star complaining about that uncovered positives.

This conspiracy theory is a silly tangent from the topic of the thread, but I don't think you're very familiar with either USADA or Wade Exum's relationship with USADA. Exum was employed by USOC, not USADA. Exum requested that USOC submit his name to be considered for the newly-created position of USADA CEO, and he later sued USOC and USADA, alleging race discrimination, when someone else was selected for the position. I don't know what "chair" you think USADA kicked kicked Exum off of.

Aouita is almost as much of a joke as Wang. The dude tried to force his athletes in austrailia to take steroids and who knows what else. No way he was clean. Just another dirty fu*kin Moroccan.

Ovett is eligible becasue in 1980 the Olympics were the offical world champs so when he won Olympic gold he also won the world champs.

Where do you get that idea?