I think most experts put him at 37.12 for a projected PR.
I think most experts put him at 37.12 for a projected PR.
just another guy wrote:
I think most experts put him at 37.12 for a projected PR.
umm explain...?
FWIW The race where the commentators (British) speculate/ insinuate about Viren blood doping is an Olympic final (I think 1980 - I saw it on youtube.) To hear them talk it really was an open secret. The fact that he wouldn't take the $1mil to "reveal" the truth - well, if you bent the rules (not broke them - tranfusions weren't banned at the time, as others have established) would you want to permanently tarnish your achievement to suit someone else's publicity stunt, even for that amount of coin?
The point about blood doping not being of benefit if a person's hemoglobin count is already high enough may well be true, but consider that even today doping isn't an exact science, even with substantial knowledge; ie the right combination/timing etc. can only be found by trial and error (hence people even trying male enhancement products) - so maybe even back then people were doing it in the hopes that it would bring something extra. Didn't other Finnish distance runners at the time (late 70s/early 80s)admit to/get suspended for blood doping or other infractions? True Viren may have been head and shoulders above all others, except maybe for Keino in 1972, but if people nowadays are willing to take such risks to seek an edge and keep it, they probably weren't too different back then.