Most Bogus WR??

Fojo's 100 WR was both wind and chemical aided.

If you use any of the recognised charts, which tend to be pretty accurate, Radcliffes is the one record which is off the graph...

FLO JO's records and that says a lot since the Chinese records are bs too.

Men's 200M.

The cynic in me says they're all bogus, every last one of them.

i'm gonna have to say pam reeds 300 mile run wr(or whatever it is)

Anyone who has seen a picture of Jarmila knows that the 800m record is the most obviously bogus. Absolutely no way, 100% positive bogus.

6pj wrote:

the 1500 meters.

i understand 1000 or 5k or 10k, why that distance? other than it is close to a mile and moved to something that divides into a factor of 500.

drop it from the records.

To the rest of the world that uses the metric system, running 1.5 km probably makes a lot more sense than 1.60933 km

I think the most World bogus record is the "World's Biggest Ball of String" and the "largest air sickness bag (ie barf bag)collection"

newbalance wrote:

If you use any of the recognised charts, which tend to be pretty accurate, Radcliffes is the one record which is off the graph...

And if you use basic proportionality mathematics to plot a speed decay curve, all of Paula's times (3k, 5k, 10k, half mar and marathon) all fall right in line with each other.

The marathon record only seems "off the chart" compared to other women's WRs because the marathon is still a rapidly developing event, much like the women's PV. A few years ago (say, in 1999-2000), a 4.90m vault would have been rated so highly on the women's 'graphs' - probably higher than most of the other WRs. Yet nowadays a 5.00m vault doesn't seem so other-worldly.

Wait and see - in another 5-10 years, we'll have plenty more women running sub-20, and some will probably get within 45-60 seconds of Paula's WR. Then the graphs will be recalculated and Paula's WR won't seem to out-of-line with the others.

Any record with the name FLOJO by it...you think someone of her athletic prowess died so early because of natural causes? Yeah right...

Hold on guys, the chinese women were legite.

They were eating worm fungi, with perhaps a dab of turtle blood.

Did a report on it with my teammate in high school. At least we said we did. A final project report, which involved 20 minutes of reading and discussion, and then BS'ing a class that had no idea what we were talking about for a B+.

Not bad for a couple of nationally ranked state champs, we deserved a D.

agreed. Flojo had dope coming out of her ears. And she was wind aided in that 100m. It'll be a loooooong time before we see another female run under 10.5

With Flo Jo you can't help but wonder, with Paula the sheer

unbelievability of her 2:15 makes you wonder, however she has neither Flo Jo's thighs, the german girls penis or the -I came from nowhere to obliterate world records and then disappeared- trend to her performances. Clearly it wasn't just turtle soup those china gals were sipping.

29:31?!?! Ludicrous. The chinese records should have been stricken a long time ago.

Like this one?

biettttttt wrote:

Anyone who has seen a picture of Jarmila knows that the 800m record is the most obviously bogus. Absolutely no way, 100% positive bogus.

You can pretty much rest assured that if any track world record was set by any Chinese athletes, it has drugs all over it.

PandaExpress wrote:

Any record with the name FLOJO by it...you think someone of her athletic prowess died so early because of natural causes? Yeah right...

With pathologically enlarged organs....HGH baby.

I'm not saying they didn't dope, because the DDR program is well documented. I'm just saying I danced with Marita K. and Marlies G. in a disco in Karl Marx Stadt in July 1982 and there weren't no penises. Kratchlikova was a beast, but Koch was kind of a hottie.

Stater of the Obvious wrote:

Men's 200M.

The cynic in me says they're all bogus, every last one of them.

Then by default wouldn't the 400M record be tainted as well? I wouldn't go as far as saying they are all "bogus", but I'm sure most are.

MacGyver wrote:

You can pretty much rest assured that if any track world record was set by any Chinese athletes, it has drugs all over it.

That goes for Russia and Germany as well.