Nutella1 wrote:
Mr. Obvious wrote:It still doesn't fully make sense of the 1993 records, which were outliers for so many of these athletes, including Wang.
That's an understatement:
3000m
Athelete Beijing Time Best time outside of Beijing
Wang Junxia 8:06 8:27
Qu Yunxia 8:12 8:28
Zhang Linli 8:16 8:29
Ma Liyan 8:18 (no other recorded time)
Zhang Lirong 8:22 8:31
I think everyone here can agree that the total distance covered in China was probably around 2850m, not 3000.
In other words, the track would have to be exactly 380m long.
The naked eye would not be able to tell a 380m track from a 400m track.
End of thread.
Ridiculous. There is no chance on earth the track was short. Answer me on these points to convince me that it wasn't a 400m track.
1. The same track was used for the 1990 Asian Games. Nothing out of the ordinary.
2. The men ran ordinary times. There's not one standing men's Chinese national record from the 1993 games, while there are ten Chinese women's records from the 1993 National Games.
3. The women did it again to a smaller extent in Shanghai in 1997. The same venue for the Diamond League. They didn't shrink it just for the women.
4. Omega timed the meet. You don't think they would notice?
5. How the hell would the hurdlers hit there marks? Setting up each hurdle 5% closer would completely throw them all off and the events would be ruined.
6. Ma Miaolan set huge personal bests in the long jump, high jump and javelin during her heptathlon national record at the 1993 National Games. Did they use a short tape to measure them?
The results from 1993 and 1997 are from drugs and training. Why has no one done it before or since? You can't do it. They had a large group of women that Ma literally beat into shape and they ran 25 miles a day, really hard and took every drug imaginable. Talent + drugs + training no one else would do.