A 62 closer lap, from a person born in a country at altitude where everyone runs everywhere.
That's generation upon generation upon generation upon generation of running.
I know its easy to point at someone and cry doper but if its so far ahead then why isn't their more competition for her?
Dr RVT - you are correct. There are a LOT of people on this site that have no idea how dirty T&F is right now.
Yep. Which means if Rupp or Farah win tommarrow. I BETTER see you accusing them as well....Prick
I can't tell if you guys are trolling hard or just stupid.
The top female runner for the last several years just won a race in a not-very-fast time and she's being accused of doping.
A sign of drug use is usually crazy performances out of nowhere or faster performances when they're older. She's BARELY 27 and ran about 30 seconds SLOWER than her last Olympic win.
Other than that, she has consistently been a very fast runner, since her early teens.
Get a clue. I'm all for fighting drug use but a young, accomplished runner being consistent isn't the same as an early 30s sprinter suddenly improving by half a second.
*correction: she's barely 26.
Listen, I am not happy being a cynic, as a frustrated idealist. I WANT everyone to be clean and pure. I WISH I lived in ignorance and naïveté, believe me!
Dr RVT wrote:
I WISH I lived in ignorance and naïveté, believe me!
I live in ignorance. I'm pretty sure you'd be welcome here if you mind your manners and don't get uppity.
Pretty sure naivete is a small village in southern France, though. It ain't in these here parts.
All I've heard any of the haters on this thread say is that she was impressive, therefore she HAD to be doping. Sounds like a great way to never be able to enjoy great running.
Sore loser kenyans! Kenyan athletes neither have the power nor the grace. They look like mosquitoes!
closing in 62 is not a big deal. Drugs or no, she's run a 56 last lap before. Winning by 8 sec has the 2 Kenyans finishing rather slow. The table was set for the finish during the last 3-4 laps.
Take your epo shit to the american swimming forum. American girls breaking records like left and right and accusing others (china) for doing the same.
Totes wrote:
I can't tell if you guys are trolling hard or just stupid.
The top female runner for the last several years just won a race in a not-very-fast time and she's being accused of doping.
A sign of drug use is usually crazy performances out of nowhere or faster performances when they're older. She's BARELY 27 and ran about 30 seconds SLOWER than her last Olympic win.
Other than that, she has consistently been a very fast runner, since her early teens.
Get a clue. I'm all for fighting drug use but a young, accomplished runner being consistent isn't the same as an early 30s sprinter suddenly improving by half a second.
Pharmelita JETER
Still don't understand if T&F is so dirty why aren't their more impressive and competitive races?
If you dare use the argument that they're still talented then you just proved that drugs only produce a fast time, they don't actually give you an advantage over anyone unless they aren't doping and if you actually think that completely removing drugs from a sport will bring back America prominence in a sport where American's were never prominent then you are the one living in ignorance.
Race was boring. Very weak field and Diabab was so far beyond every other runner. How about the US females fighting it out between themselves :(
Seems to me Dibaba made her move just as she was passing a group of lapped runners in the second lane, while Vivian Cheruiyot was still boxed in behind her and unable to respond.
That's intelligent running, wonder what drug she's taking for that. I'll have whatever she's having.
o.O wrote:
A 62 closer lap, from a person born in a country at altitude where everyone runs everywhere.
[B}That's generation upon generation upon generation upon generation of running.
I know its easy to point at someone and cry doper but if its so far ahead then why isn't their more competition for her?
So your mom ran when she's young, she'd pass the fitness to you when you're born?
troll detector wrote:
tacomafan wrote:Interesting that a 62 400 is now considered aerobic.
lol are you trolling? A 62 400m IS aerobic for someone who can hold 62 400m pace for over a mile.
Really?
I thought the top aerobic pace is at which one can run for ~11min. No?
You may be right. Good points made. I'm a hopeful believer at heart.
That's 1 generation not 2 or even 3
Why do you think times get better every so often? Why are the Olympics every 4 years instead of yearly?
People aren't just randomly being born with the natural ability to run 12 minute 5ks(or 14 minute 5ks doped down)
There is a reason Americans aren't winning these events and its not because other sports are pulling all those distance runners away.
And yes, if my parents both held a running pedigree, that would almost certainly guaranteeing that I'd be a successful runner myself. Just look at all the running family in the sport today.
EPO_pian wrote:
Limey wrote:Two years? She was ranked number one in the world at 5000m and 10000m in 2010. She was injured last year. She can probably run 29:30 or better so running 31 minute pace and kicking the last 400m isn't going to do much to her.
Yea exactly, 2 years ago! She comes back and makes the field look like shmucks. Expecting bekele or one of the others ethiopians to be back to their 'best' in the mens 10km
what I watched was a racing clinic. there is running and there is racing and that was racing at its finest. The three US gals were running, not racing and they each ran a PB. In fact 9 of the top 14 runners ran a PB. The front pack in the latter part of the race were racing. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I will not be surprised if Bekele does the same thing.