Laura Muir 1:57.30

John Wesley Harding wrote:

Sally Vix wrote:

Jelimo feels like almost yesterday. Can't believe she was 15 years ago. Boy does time fly!

Pamela Jelimo should have two Olympic golds. She crossed the line 4th in London but the winner, Russia’s Mariya Savinova, was DQ’d and Jelimo upgraded to bronze. In 2015 WADA recommended that the now-silver medalist, Russia’s Ekaterina Poistogova, have her results annulled backdating to London, but CAS refused to backdate that far. The gold medalist/second finisher from the race is DSD athlete Caster Semenya.

The women’s 800 has always been a little messy. It actually seems to be in a good place now.

Spot the American wrote:

Disagree. What you probably mean is a good place now you have an American leading the current lists. But Coe said London was the cleanest games ever, didn't he? Who says the current bunch are any better? Maybe in a few years they'll have a test for whatever Mu and keely were on in Tokyo.

the truth.. wrote:

I read something here (I think Rojo wrote it, but I'm not sure - I can't find the link) that every woman under 1:55 is either from the Soviet state-sanctioned doping era or DSD. Nowadays it's fairer.

VoR wrote:

slippery slope wrote:

Bad form to allow this in a BMC meet. Not like this is an official time - or why aren't there male pacers in ALL the DL meets (that could go all the way as well)? If she had set a British record would it have counted?

It's always been very common for BMC meets to have mixed races. Makes it easier for everyone - and particularly the best women - to find a competitive race to take part in.

Of course times achieved by women in mixed races won't count as records or towards qualifying for championships. And everybody knows this.

guess what it is... wrote:

Muir > Mu