Hull is not the only one - other Australian women with big drops this year

Sara Hall comes over to run Gold Coast Half Marathon and finds out what it is like to race aussie women.....She has was beaten by women she has never heard of. The Ladies are rolling!!

Its probably widespread, but you''ll never read, or hear about it. Australia,like so many other countries,protects its sporting stars very well. Sport is like a religion there. Also for a population of 27 million or so, the aussies will want to be as close to the top of the overall brisbane olympic medal tally as they can. That will mean a lot of drugs,and they''ll be pulling out all stops to see that they get there. Expect to see a lot of astonishing drops in performance times,and expect the aussies to churn out more world class athletes in the coming years.

If Australians are naturally elite performers who work hard, then why weren’t the women named in this thread running at their current level last year? They’ve all had massive improvements this year. Were they just not working hard enough before?

So progression is no longer allowed in our sport? Someone runs a pr in a perfectly set up race with near perfect conditions and all of a sudden its considered sus? How is this any different to the like of monson when she ran a 13 second+ pr, it's just the nature of the sport.

Going from 32:09 to 30:35 is more than just progression. That’s transformation. I’d love to drop more than a minute and a half off my 10K. Maybe I just need to look harder for “a perfectly set up race with near perfect conditions.”

don't waste your time looking for one, they don't exist for those looking to break 60min in the 10k

Jealous much?

Back to running her 10k pace in 5ks again…

Rose Davies and coach Westcott are based in Newcastle an hour north of Sydney. Jess Hull grew up and was based in, family still in, Illawarra region an hour to 90 minutes south of Sydney (apart from her years in Oregon, including Nike Oregon Project three months before Salazar doping scandal and NOP folded). Nothing of difference to note between Newcastle and Illawarra, similar climate, coastal, same, same. This year Hull moved to train in...Newcastle. Just saw Davies qualify strongly for Olympics 5k final, Australian tv commentator said 'she doesn't look like she's just run a 5k.'

Rose Davies and coach Westcott are based in Newcastle an hour north of Sydney. Jess Hull grew up and was based in, family still in, Illawarra region an hour to 90 minutes south of Sydney (apart from her years in Oregon, including Nike Oregon Project three months before Salazar doping scandal and NOP folded). Nothing of difference to note between Newcastle and Illawarra, similar climate, coastal, same, same. This year Hull moved to train in...Newcastle. Just saw Davies qualify strongly for Olympics 5k final, Australian tv commentator said 'she doesn't look like she's just run a 5k.

If they were cyclists no one would be asking how they are making these big jumps. Track and field are ahead of cycling for doping.

Incredible. Davies never made a global championship final before, and today she was right up there with Beatrice Chebet.

It is obvious to anyone but track fans what is going on. These athletes are doping, likely with the consent or at least willful ignorance of the Australian authorities. Chemistry trumps everything in this sport. I think today the US has something similar, but on a lesser scale.

Funny but that is what the commentator said about a US athlete a few weeks back. Never a more obvious red flag.

Hollingsworth through to semi finals in 800.

Don't forget 33 year old Linden Hall.

Hollingsworth ran 2:01.6 as a 15-yo back in 2021. Nothing unusual about going from 2:01.6 at age 15 to 1:58.4 at age 19.

Juliette Whittaker ran 2:05 at age 15 and 2:01 at age 17. She hit 1:58.4 at age 20.

Is it called ‘throwing shade’?

what about the Canadian sprinter?

Coach was a worry in 2018 with Celia Sullohern. Former triathlete, one year wonder for home comm games