Dibaba 14:11.15 WR!!

What kind of formula do you use to determine "equivalent" male and female performances? I've always been curious about that.

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Still behind

Female performance of 13:52 would be an equivalent performance to a Men's 12:37

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Getty has nice pics of the WR

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=1&language=en-US&family=editorial&p=dibaba&src=quick

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trollism wrote:

I lost interest in these little pharmaceutical experiments a long time ago.

So all you "the africans are all doped" naysayers, state the only logical conclusion that you can come to based on your reasoning with me: RYAN HALL IS DOPED OUT OF HIS MIND. I'd just like to hear some of you say it.

( I don't believe that, but it is the logical extension of the arguments against the best africans).

only you say "the africans are all doped" the other poster doesn't mention race at all!!! I personally can't think of any 2:06 runner that I feel is clean. So yea I honestly believe that Hall is dirty, and I wouldn't be surprised if Ryan was the last to know. But it is also reasonable to believe that someone who is very poor would do something that is only slightly immoral(doping) in order to make a better life for themselves and family.

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Congratulations to Tirunesh.

Mr. three question marks,

You come out as an ogre. At least that is the image you portray. Seriously.

There is nothing you can take away from this wonderful gal, NOTHING!

Please give the devil his due. (In this case her due).

Dibaba is clean, that is how it'll eventually come out, and she'll be the WR holder until Defar trashes it.

AND THEN YOU'LL POSE THE SAME QUESTION AS TO WHETHER SHE WAS CLEAN.

How sad!

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What was the previous 5k record held by Meseret Defar? I know Defar set the old 5k WR last year.

you answer your own question idiot!!!!!!!

geger wrote:

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What was the previous 5k record held by Meseret Defar? I know Defar set the old 5k WR last year.

you answer your own question idiot!!!!!!!

14.16:64 at the same place.

Do any of you remember the last time an ethnical group i.e. (Eastern Block) dominated a sport like this, it came out that they were all doped out of their mind, as some of you say. It all resorts back to money, and prestige. The Soviets did it to show their world dominance. East Germany was a failing nation, and showing they could WIN grew support from the general East German public. Just as many Americans as Europeans as Africans are taking performance enhancing drugs. Not all, but I will bet most are. So don't tell me that this woman is clean, and don't tell me that Ryan Hall is clean either. Yea they haven't been caught, YET!!!! Time will tell

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Just as many Americans as Europeans as Africans are taking performance enhancing drugs. Not all, but I will bet most are. So don't tell me that this woman is clean, and don't tell me that Ryan Hall is clean either. Yea they haven't been caught, YET!!!!

Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they are NOT out to get you! Please, take your childish conspiracy theories back over to DyeStat. They still manage to appreciate trolls over there!

Yes, with all that extra money in the treasury in Ethiopia and Kenya, of course they can fund a technically skilled program, and simultaneously leave no evidence of their tracks.

Could you do me a favour and provide a link supporting your statement that an identical number of drug cheats hail from North America, Europe and Africa?

Several different formulas out there. I just use 10% for 800 to 10000 (should work for marathon as well a 2:02 is about a 2:14 for women) Currently the women's WR is about 87 seconds better then the men's, although I suspect a 2:03 in the next couple of years.

Of course some may disagree. Women are catching up to men in terms of performances and are only a few years behind. Once we see less then a 10% difference- then that performance is superior in my mind.

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Everyone faster than me is doping, and everyone slower than me is a penguin.

They do exactly what blood expert and head coach Woldemeskel Kostre tells them.

Surely he wouldn't do anything like dope them? I know how highly you Americans think of people who were involved in the sport in the 80s from communist countries.

Poker, darts, curling, sailing, nascar, walking, chopping down trees. There are still plenty of sports for you to watch if you can't deal with black people winning everything and breaking all the records.

You honestly think I only focus my attention on black athletes?

You must be new here.

trollism wrote:

You honestly think I only focus my attention on black athletes? You must be new here.

Actually, I think that he was simply trying to give you a taste of your own medicine! Good job taking the bait.

Let me get this straight trollism:

You think that because a man studied exercise physiology in Hungary during the Cold War (one of the few locations available to him because of this government) that he MUST be a corrupt and cheating individual. There's no other possibility to consider. Nevermind the fact that you've never met him, and haven't been able to read much about him and, unlike Trevor Graham or John Smith, has never had an athlete test positive, and this coach just happens to work in the part of the world that's be lived to house the greatest wealth of distance running talent in the world (greatest genetic variety and highest oxygen carrying capacity found in any large population of humans anywhere in the world). Is that right? Did I get all?

So is everyone of Woldemeskel's callmates from Budapest equally as sinister? Like Borris and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle?

Please; your 'Deep Throat' level insight is eagerly awaited.

Ironic wrote:

Actually, I think that he was simply trying to give you a taste of your own medicine! Good job taking the bait.

Not sure about that at all. It was an accusation of racism that I thought I took rather well.

trollism wrote:

Ironic wrote:

Actually, I think that he was simply trying to give you a taste of your own medicine! Good job taking the bait.

Not sure about that at all. It was an accusation of racism that I thought I took rather well.

so you feel shafted now