Autologous Madness wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/apr/20/paula-radcliffe-london-marathon-record"Paula Radcliffe has put Britain on the map," agrees Hartmann. "She set a record that's so far out there, and it's already 10 years old, that record could become 20 or even 25 years old. That tells you everything you need to know. And hopefully with the clampdown in drug testing there won't be an athlete who can go near it. There's no clean athlete who can go near that in the next 10 years."
That part is very interesting! It can't get better than this...
Her own people and affiliates said that her record is so far out there and no clean athletes can approach her times!!!! Dammit!
And Hartmann's the guy who said she was once in good enough form to lower her WR by another minute and a half.
I think there comes a point where we have to recognise that most elite athletes 'tune' themselves, and Paula was by far and away the best at that in the women's marathon discipline.
By 'tuning', I don't obviously mean doping, I mean just getting your training, conditioning, and blood as optimal as possible.
Of course, doping could be a part of that, but it doesn't have to be. (But part of me thinks it probably is.)