20 years ago today. Wejo 'escorted' Paula Radcliffe to her WR in Chicago.

Bruv, Another guy made a much better escort joke before Steve.

Yer game is crap.

WTFU!

Is that Brian Sell looking like the ghost of Steve Prefontaine???

Paula also recorded two of the highest off-score jumps in 2003 and 2005, and was flagged as "likely doping" in 2012. So I suggest to change "no evidence" to "not enough evidence for a ban".

I didn’t start watching track and road racing until around 2003, so I never saw Weldon run.

My humble opinion is that a male elite has to beat every female in their specialty. Yeah, I’d call him elite in the 10,000. Didn’t mean any disrespect with that comment.

Maybe so, but Steve consistently makes escort jokes, which is why I called him out specifically.

I know what I'm doing here, get off my back.

No one cares

And not the last *cough cough* Shelby Houlihan

As well as the pile of dodgy blood test results with no convincing explanation given ...

Weldon was only 29 years old at this time. Did he ever run faster or is that his lifetime pb?

Just catching up on this thread.

I would have bet a lot of money I didn't wear a nasal strip and lost! Perhaps I wore it because Paula did and I wanted to be a cool kid!?

Clearly I should have been wearing them all the time in my marathons as this was my PB.

That would have been funny if it happened. It was probably written into Wejo's contract that he would be expected to 'shield' her from the cameras while she did it.

I think in London that spring she did have to stop and take a pee break.

It wasn't written into my contract but I gladly would have shielded her. Most I ever got paid in running by far. All-in-all a $10,000 day for me. $2,500 starting contract plus bonuses if she got world record and then if I finished.

So who has the clean WR? Takahashi?

Ok Wejo. We need an encore. Who's next on your escort list to a record?

Next is his esteemed brother. If Wejo can escort Rojo to a sub 3 marathon they will both deserve black pages and they should be granted 10 whereabouts failures in drug testing.

LOL. I hope not. She is only number 48 on WA's best list, faster so far were:

23 Ethiopians, 16 Kenyans, 3 Americans, 2 Japanese, 1 Brit, 1 Romanian, and 1 Chinese.

Title should be changed to "20 years ago today Paula escorted Wejo to his PB"

From that pic, dude had some of the jankiest form I’ve ever seen running that fast.

likely doping says who? extract from The Guardian:

"“This case is a good example, then, of how dangerous it is to insinuate that an athlete has doped based simply on the raw and incomplete data in the leaked database. Ms Radcliffe should never have been forced to come out and defend herself against such insinuations. When all of the necessary information is considered … there are clearly plausible explanations for the values in her profile that are entirely innocent.”
UK Anti-Doping backed the IAAF’s stance and said Radcliffe had “no case to answer”. A spokeswoman said: “Ukad has reviewed the data concerning Paula Radcliffe which, upon our request, was shared with us by the IAAF. After careful review, and in consultation with an independent expert, Ukad has come to the same conclusion as the IAAF review that there is no case to answer. The data does not provide any evidence that any anti-doping rule violation proceedings should be brought.”"

"Additionally, the IAAF said it had tested “Ms Radcliffe’s urine samples for EPO, and her blood samples for evidence of blood transfusions, and all of those tests came back negative”.