circumstantial evidence wrote:
From the Murieka paper on the effect of wind on 100m performances, the difference between 0.0 m/s and 2.0 m/s wind is about 0.1 second.
Factoring the wind in, Bolt has dropped the 100m WR (over Powell's 9.74) as much in this year as in in the previous 17 years.
Again factoring in the wind (which was NEGATIVE for Bolt in the 200), Bolt broke Michael Johnson's supposedly unapproachable 200m record by 0.1 second.
Veronica Campbell-Brown broke her own PB in the 200 (which was set 3 years ago) by 0.61 seconds. She had never even broken 22 seconds before this year, and she ran the fastest time by a Jamaican female since 1992 (remember the standard of drug testing back then). Her new time ranks her next to Silke Gladisch-Möller, Marlies Gohr, Heike Drechsler, Marita Koch (all from East Germany) and...Marion Jones.
All this coming from a nation that is:
(1) Perhaps the drug taking capital of the world;
(2) Does not have an active national drug testing agency;
(3) Opted to WITHDRAW from the Caribbean Regional Anti Doping Agency.
People have probably been sentenced to death with less circumstantial evidence than this.
So do you get fired for f***ing up so badly in the evidence department? VCB's pb going into the season was 22.05 from 2004. She ran, what, 21.71 or something like that (certainly not under 21.7). That's no better than 0.35 in my book. And that seems like a good PB correction, given that it didn't move for more than three years, to which a large portion can be blamed on her season ending quad tear from 2006. That's going to set her back a bit.
As for Bolt, we've never seen a 6ft5 man move his feet like Tyson Gay. He is a freak. And that's that. The OP's assertion reflects what most in the industry believe. The same doesn't go for all Jamaicans, but Bolt and especially VCB are to be believed.