Breaking: Athing Mu to L.A. to train with Bobby Kersee

Not apples to apples but, Tokyo 2021 Olympic 4 x 400 final splits:

McLaughlin 50.20

Felix 49.30

Muhammed 48.94

Mu 48.32

On the bright side, maybe Kersee can coach her not to run so wide on the 1st lane every single time.

And Sydney split 47.9 this year

Great move - she and Syd will both run 47low next year, breaking Koch's record and done CLEAN, like ALL of his athletes. Then she can obliterate Kratch's record going out in 53 and coming back in 56 (for the first sub-1.50 for women.).

Someone used Koch's record and clean in the same sentence. Obviously Mu saw that no one was questioning Sydney and decided the heck with it.

Tooth Ugg Eels!!!

Mu goes over to the dark side with McLaughlin.

The 800 is roughly the length of two 400s back to back. So Kersee should just double what he has his 400 runners do. Should work out fine!

I feel like I missed something. Did Kersee coach an athlete who was doping? Who was it?

Have you heard of FloJo and Jackie Joyner Kersee?

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Yes, Kersee will definitely do that. He is very focused on little details like that.

Mu's Texas A&M coach let's his athletes figure our how to run races however they feel like it which isn't good.

But on the other hand, Texas A&M has 800 training down pat, and Kersee has very little 800 experience. Hopefully Kersee teams up with someone who has experience training 800 runners at a high level.

This does bode well for getting our two best 400m runners into the event for a shot at the world record. It would be even better if McLaughlin joins Mu in the 800m, but even with little experience coaching the 800m, Kersee's 400m training will be enough for Mu. I think that she had a health problem of some kind this year, accounting for a bit of a drop in performance, so if well, she should be back to her prior form next year.

This sums it up. No hard proof, but some old allegations-

honestsport.com

The past steroid allegations against McLaughlin, Felix coach

Edmund Willison

An American sprinter claimed that coach Bob Kersee provided him with anabolic steroids before the Seoul Olympics. Yet in more recent times, doping suspicions have been more fairly directed at two sprint coaches favoured by th...

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Check this out - Jackie Joyner Kersee in the heptathlon:

1984 - 6579

1985 - 6718

1986 - 7158 (world record! ) - Not even the heavily drugged East Germans could break 7000

1987 - 7128 (3rd best in history! )

1988 - 7291 (world record! ) - At this point she had the only 5 scores in history above 7000!

Out of Competition Drug Testing Starts

1989 - She doesn't do even one heptathlon.

1990 - 6783, more than 500 points below her previous heptathlon in 1988. (It sucks being off drugs.)

1991 - 6878 (Not much better than the year before. It still sucks being off drugs.)

Right. If one included the start, is that about the differential you'd expect? Maybe this year's is objectively better accounting for the start but probably not a lot. On the other hand, we see the USA again winning in spite of the boat anchor on leg 2.

Any woman who can run sub-50, even with a relay start, is not a boat anchor.

There goes the flat 400 and 800 world records