A new drug hit the sprinters sometime in 2007/2008 - that's pretty obvious looking at the all time list.
On the other hand, the distance runners have leveled out with no new breakthroughs since the nineties.
Check out the high jump - nothing much happen there at all.
Thanks for the link:
It's a better event for steroid doping than distance events, as it's still essentially a power event. I think it's gotten pretty hard to escape detection with steroids, which means that even people who are doping have to use less effective drugs and probably not shorten their cycles.
Compare women's times of today to those in the 90s. I'm sure some people are doping today, but they're not close to the freakish 80s-90s times. There hasn't been a women's world record under 5000m since 1996.
lost in Boston wrote:
A new drug hit the sprinters sometime in 2007/2008 - that's pretty obvious looking at the all time list.
Another possibility is just that the Jamaicans arrived on the scene-- that there was a ton of untapped potential there that explored 5-6 years ago. It's a similar situation to when the Kenyans and Ethiopians started erasing the Finns and the Brits from the all-time distance lists.
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lost in Boston wrote:A new drug hit the sprinters sometime in 2007/2008 - that's pretty obvious looking at the all time list.
Another possibility is just that the Jamaicans arrived on the scene-- that there was a ton of untapped potential there that explored 5-6 years ago. It's a similar situation to when the Kenyans and Ethiopians started erasing the Finns and the Brits from the all-time distance lists.
Jamaicans have been sprinting for many years.
haha I just keep thinking about ppl 20 years from now, looking back at those alltime lists. Can you imagine what they'd be saying about Bolt? probly the same things some of us say: "that guy was CLEARLY doped to the gills, nobody's come close since!"
In my opinion, all these athletes are clean. Every athlete is clean until an A and B sample come back positive.