MA JUNREN IS BACK wrote:
3 world records (or all-time world bests) in the same night, has anything similar been done before?
Also, all of these from athletes with the same coach (Jama Aden)!
This smells all like a week of September '93...
Not sure this is the best way to prepare in an olympic year with rounds late in the year! I will go out on a limb and say we will not see any of these 3 on the podiums because they are either burnt out or injured!!
Umm not even close. 2 of the WRs were in rarely contested events that no one cares about. Dibaba's performance was very impressive though.
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Primo Numero Uno wrote:
Umm not even close. 2 of the WRs were in rarely contested events that no one cares about. Dibaba's performance was very DOPED though.
Rodger Kram Ph.D. wrote:
Jesse Owens tied/set 4 world records in 45 minutes in a dual meet.
http://www.si.com/more-sports/2010/05/24/owens-recorddayand he was not doping
An easy deduction to make, that fewer drugs were available and they were less sophisticated, but incorrect.
Soldiers in both world wars were given concoctions to make them stronger or keep them awake/focused: anabolics had been researched beginning in the 1920s, and testosterone by the 30s.
Unlikely that those protocols filtered to athletes for several years, but they had their own methods. Lots of brandy and coffee dosed with more caffeine, sugar or ether. Morphine too. Even at the end of the 1800s, cyclist in 6-day races were taking caffeine, cocaine, even strychnine (a pesticide normally) as stimulants.
To assume Jesse Owen's purity just because it was a long time ago would be wrong headed. The drugs existed, and were seen as solutions to a problem. There was not the same moral attitude against doping, and the science was new and exciting. A different discussion is the availability or affordability of these programmes to a black man, for example.
Isn't Stockholm where Bekele complained of a headwind?
Not sure this is the best way to prepare in an olympic year with rounds late in the year! I will go out on a limb and say we will not see any of these 3 on the podiums because they are either burnt out or injured!!
Dibaba did the same thing last year and went on to be world champion and beat one of the records nobody thought a mortal could get within 4 seconds of.
If you're right, it will just be luck.
MA JUNREN IS BACK wrote:
3 world records (or all-time world bests) in the same night, has anything similar been done before?
Also, all of these from athletes with the same coach (Jama Aden)!
This smells all like a week of September '93...
hell ya.
it is time to bust ethiopia.
our little princess that can run the 4 minute mile needs go go go.
after everybody is busted, what are they going to do?
athletes - 80% of top guys are completely dirty, another 10% on the line
ustf - idiots, dirty
og comittee, dirty
federations, selfserving, dirty
iaaf, dirty
coe, nice competitor turned into liar, bullshitter.
what is left? nothing. elite track is a fantasy, just like most other pro sports are a drug induced fantasy.
time for freedom. time for transparency.
let them take PEDs, and report what they do. under doctor supervision and prescription.
lets get some benefits out of the sport. rather than a big and or fake ego trip.
Here is the best 15 minutes in track history.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/04/sports/smith-and-miss-ashford-set-world-records-in-100.html
Maybe the track was short? :)
The meet was on tape delay, on BEIN Sports, at 8pm on Wednesday. They show the Diamond League Meets (that other stations don't have rights to). Available on SlingTV, and I had on my last cable package. I think you can still watch "on demand" on Sling.
8:22.50 3k for Dibaba !!! #2 All Time !!!