New Mary Cain of Sprinting

Whitney is coached by Dennis Mitchell. Just to recap who he is:

1) Banned for 2 years for high testosterone levels in 1998

2) Testified in 2008 BALCO trials that Trevor Graham was injecting Mitchell with HGH, with Mitchell knowing he was taking a banned substance.

3) Testified under oath that he acted as an adviser to Marion Jones on how to properly dope.

That is not the coach I would choose for my sprint prodigy daughter.

More self-righteousness typical of nearly all lrc posters.

Give it a rest.

lol both Cain and this girl are coached by known drug peddlers.

I wouldn't let my kids either. I also wouldn't let them train with Salazar. You think everyone is clean in the Salazar camp?

I hope Kaylin stays clean, bc she is so talented, but it's goin to be hard to believe it if she reaches super stardom with the coach she chose.

With all the testing going on, you have to start nano-doping at a very early age.

Are athletes under the age of 18 legally responsible for any doping violations (ie should the receive doping violations)? It's one thing for elite adult age athletes being responsible for knowing what they should and shouldn't be taking, can the same thing be said for younger athletes that don't have the where-with-all or maturity to know.

I started this thread to talk about Kaylin's performances and to see what all of the Mary Cain fanboys would say...but of course it went to PED'd...smh.

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I started this thread to talk about Kaylin's performances and to see what all of the Mary Cain fanboys would say...but of course it went to PED'd...smh.

So far nothing like BALCO has blown up around AlSal. If it does, AlSal and his athletes will become as radioactive as Trevor Graham and his athletes did become.

Anyway, Cain is great in her particular world - US junior mid-d running - but she isn't close to being dominant on the world stage the way US junior swimmer Katie Ledecky is or even to being dominant on the world junior stage the way Kaylin Whitney is. None of that stops me from being a Cain fan, it's just reality.

p.s. speaking of Ledecky, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/katie-ledecky-returns-to-her-summer-swim-league-to-sign-autographs--and-set-records/2014/07/05/023f7b54-0392-11e4-8fd0-3a663dfa68ac_story.html for a fun article about a small meet she participated in the other day. Seems like a nice kid.

Her problem isn't with Cain, it's being coached by two high profile coaches who were banned as athletes for drug use.

It's like when Marion Jones was working with Charlie Francis, the coach of Ben Johnson, the most high profile athlete ever banned.

Whitney, then, is getting world class coaching advice from an early age. We know that sprinters tend to develop earlier than distance runners. You need years of aerobic development. 11.10 is an incredible time. I would sincerely hope that there is not thought of doping a high schooler, though we do know that it is very common among high school football players, wrestlers and weightlifters, according to studies. But times that concern me for women are 10.9 and under. Maybe Whitney will run a clean 10.7 in a few years, but the record of Dennis Mitchell would put a cloud over all that, at least when she is an adult.