gypsy wrote:
I read interview with Kratochvilova in todays slovak papers.
In 1983 she expected that the WR would last only 1 season.
After few years, when the number of top meetings increased and with introduction of the golden leag, which forces the top athlete to compete years around, she realized, that teh WR will stand much longer.
As she said, teh top athlete these days just do not have enough time for uninerupted preparation for the long lasting proper training, it is from races to races from qualifiers to finals etc. In her days it was months and months of nonracing just hard training without worrying to be in top shape, allowing to work on nonrace specific issues, strenght etc.
In Kratochvilova's opinion, You cant get WR in the situation like this, Yopu need long period of training and nonracong as well as the rest and be fresh.