Even if I was hungover for a home meet, I’d be shocked (if grateful) at my coach loading a syringe with B12 for me. Ditto the Tylenol, he’d tell me to just suck it up and make better decisions next time.
I ran in the big 10. College coach would NEVER administer a shot to an athlete under any circumstances. A coach is not a medical professional. Not to mention extremely unprofessional.
Is it just me or does the majority of doped runners tend to be 1500m runners. These Huntington girls, Lauren johnson herself, Alan Webb, dibaba, Shelby, mauhfouki, Lagat, kiprop. I could go on. I know I spelled some names wrong leave me alone you get the point.
Is it just me or does the majority of doped runners tend to be 1500m runners. These Huntington girls, Lauren johnson herself, Alan Webb, dibaba, Shelby, mauhfouki, Lagat, kiprop. I could go on. I know I spelled some names wrong leave me alone you get the point.
Exactly. It is the sheer credulousness when doping is discussed and the studied refusal to use common sense that always gets me. "Well we don't know if it was doping. Maybe this coach engaged in an incredibly unprofessional and reckless practice but he was only administering vitamin shots". I mean, are they trolling? That is an entirely new level of stupid. It is like with Houlihan and her crazy post-college progression and times and the response was "well maybe she was just undertained or injured or (fill in the prefabricated excuse here)". In this sport if it looks like doping, if the progression seems odd or unusual, if the performance comes out of no where, its doping. Period. When she made the world team there was a thread "Who the hell is Lauren Johnson?" When a certain unnamed athlete associated with the Johnsons recently broke a high school record the screen name of the person starting the thread was "Out of no where." When you see descriptions like that, it is doping, full stop, every time. Just need to be honest enough to admit it.
As for the women: Outdoor mile world record history since 1980: 2019 Hassan (banned drug cheat coach Salazar, only Dutch in the infamous 2016 likely doping list) 1996 Masterkova (Russia…) 1989 Ivan (Romania, Eastern Bloc state-sponsored doping) 1985 Decker (banned drug cheat) 1982 Puica (Romania, Eastern Bloc state-sponsored doping) 1982 Decker (banned drug cheat) 1981 Veselkova (Soviet Union, Eastern Bloc state-sponsored doping) 1980 Decker (banned drug cheat)
Outdoor 1500 m world record history since 1980: 2015 Dibaba (prosecuted drug cheat coach Aden) 1993 Yunxia (admitted drug cheat) 1980 Kazankina, 2x (Soviet Union, Eastern Bloc state-sponsored doping)
It is like with Houlihan and her crazy post-college progression and times and the response was "well maybe she was just undertained or injured or (fill in the prefabricated excuse here)". In this sport if it looks like doping, if the progression seems odd or unusual, if the performance comes out of no where, its doping. Period. ...
When you see descriptions like that, it is doping, full stop, every time. Just need to be honest enough to admit it.
When a certain unnamed athlete associated with the Johnsons recently broke a high school record the screen name of the person starting the thread was "Out of no where." When you see descriptions like that, it is doping, full stop, every time. Just need to be honest enough to admit it.
Just because some moran calls himself "Out of no where" doesn't mean it's true.
She was the #1 miler (4:38) in 2021 as a junior and #4 junior miler all time. That is not nowhere. She had super shoes as a senior along with all those boys who were running sub 4's. In 2022 seven senior girls plus a soph and a freshman made the all time top 20 list by running 4:38.xx or better. Both Frias and Cook dropped their PRs (12+) more than she did. As a freshman she was the fastest (2:10/4:47) of those seven seniors. Again, that's not nowhere.
By the way that 1600 PR was set by having her coach tow her around at perfect pace. Her best competitive race was the U20 1500 which was equivalent to about a 4:32 mile. So six seconds better than the previous year in actual competition.
If she believed God put Nick Johnson in her life to help her achieve her running dreams (that's what she told police), wouldn't she believe she was defying God if she refused Nick's injections.
It is now pretty well established that her coaches doped their athletes. And before the current revelations they were already enmeshed in doping controversies at OTC. It seems pretty clear that Johnson made a world team based on doping with the help of peds. And it seems equally clear that a certain unnamed athlete made the U20 world championship on the same basis. She had become so dependent on it and was so intent on following her coaches' path to success that she decommitted from a major university because she could not obtain the same edge from them. Sorry. Just the truth.
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