I thought Christian Taylor would get the TJ record eventually, he got close. The fact that he did get close makes it a lot less sus to me.
LJ, TJ, and PV are the only ones I think have any chance of being remotely clean. Maybe not a high chance but a chance. If something like the 100 or 1500m was clean we would all be stunned.
Funny how most of the drug chests tout God and religion excessively. Probably because they believe in repentance of their (PED usage) sins.
If you think most elite athletes are drug cheats then it follows that some of them would be religious... they don't occur in any larger proportion than the wider population.
He was also ambivalent about his faith during his career. The decision to compete on Sundays was evidence of this. The notion that faith has any part to play in doping politics or the decision to dope is, frankly, odd.
Later he gave up a good presenting job for Songs of Praise a religious program on the BBC
If he was morally suspect enough to do doping it would not bother him claiming to be a Christian when he had started to have doubts.
Current triple jumpers seem to have poor runway speed on both the mens and womens side. I don't think there is anyone near his athletics talent. They have gone back to powering through rather than the skipping stone on water technique.
It needs the equivalent of someone like Duplantis to threaten his record
Aouita - Ultra Lower Conditions > Coe (the hiding coward) + UK Support and Conditions
Aouita trained at the French national sporting institute in Marseille (on the understanding that he would represent France) and still couldn't break 3:40. When he went up two levels immediately after moving to Italy, the King of Morocco financed him, just like he did El G and the rest. He was able to train in Italy, France, Morocco, the USA, and Mexico.
Coe had dreadful support, especially medical, which is why it took so long to correctly diagnose his blood infection. All the British runners in the 80's were breaking down from injuries that would have been correctly diagnosed and fixed today, or even back then in countries like the USA or Germany. Cram, Elliott, Moorcroft.
Not sure the situation has changed much today with Max Burgin's problem finally diagnosed correctly after 3 or 4 years of missing 90% of training and races. Or Matt Stonier, Jed Heyward, Gourely, Wightman etc
Anyone who has been to visit a GP in the UK will understand this especially when it comes to running injuries ...
I thought Christian Taylor would get the TJ record eventually, he got close. The fact that he did get close makes it a lot less sus to me.
LJ, HJ and TJ records are some of the oldest records because of several factors. First, jumpers are not making the $ that sprinters command due to lack of sponsorships. Which leads to talented young jumpers with leg speed droping the event. Second, and somewhat related, expert jump coaches are retiring and leaving a shortage in expertise. This is especially true in the United States where our international jumpers are underperforming (exceptions Davis-Woodhall, Moore, and McEwen.) Lastly, media and internet coverage of the jumps is rare. This site for example, rarely covers the jumps. Let alone that there are international proposals to liven up fan appeal for the jumps. The idea of changing the takeoff board to a takeoff zone because fans don't like foul jumps. Hopefully, the frenzy that Mando Duplantis and Yaroslava Mahuchik have generated in the vertical jumps can be duplicated for the horizontal ones.
I thought Christian Taylor would get the TJ record eventually, he got close. The fact that he did get close makes it a lot less sus to me.
LJ, HJ and TJ records are some of the oldest records because of several factors. First, jumpers are not making the $ that sprinters command due to lack of sponsorships. Which leads to talented young jumpers with leg speed droping the event. Second, and somewhat related, expert jump coaches are retiring and leaving a shortage in expertise. This is especially true in the United States where our international jumpers are underperforming (exceptions Davis-Woodhall, Moore, and McEwen.) Lastly, media and internet coverage of the jumps is rare. This site for example, rarely covers the jumps. Let alone that there are international proposals to liven up fan appeal for the jumps. The idea of changing the takeoff board to a takeoff zone because fans don't like foul jumps. Hopefully, the frenzy that Mando Duplantis and Yaroslava Mahuchik have generated in the vertical jumps can be duplicated for the horizontal ones.
Another factor I would add is a lot of talented high school jumpers in the US go on to play other sports in college. Our Colorado state record holder in the long jump is currently playing football at Washington State. I've seen it more times than I can count actually. 7' high school high jumpers that were D1 basketball commits, 6' girls high jumpers that were volleyball commits...But football is the juggernaut here, a boy capable of long jumping over 23' or triple jumping over 48' can probably run a 40 yard dash in the mid 4s, so many of these boys are taking full rides to play football when the best they could hope for from track would be a small partial scholarship. Of course college football is a meat grinder that chews up and spits out the majority of these kids never to be seen or heard from again.