Horrorwill wrote:
Hard to argue this. Their book is full of prevarications and distortions, and Coe's current festering phony facade gives lie to his flawed nature. Machiavelli has a son in Britain.
largely traditional wrote:Because Coe is and was a liar and a doper.
The 3:29 rush over 13 months from 1985 to 1986 is one of the most suspicious things in athletics history, right up there with Flojo and Koch.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Horrorwill wrote:Hard to argue this. Their book is full of prevarications and distortions, and Coe's current festering phony facade gives lie to his flawed nature. Machiavelli has a son in Britain.
The 3:29 rush over 13 months from 1985 to 1986 is one of the most suspicious things in athletics history, right up there with Flojo and Koch.
Nonsense. Ovett and Coe should have been running 3:29's from 79 with decent pace to the bell.
Cram should have been close from 83 and Aouita from 84.
If Wessinghage could run a 3:31 in 80 and Scott a 3:47 Mile in 82, then superior athletes should have broken 3:30 by then.
The 3:30 barrier was long overdue in 85.
Psychologically its like the same thing that happened 30 years earlier with the sum 4 min mile. Once Bannister did it, Landy did it a few times within a year and then more got in on the act.
It's a normal historical phenomenon.
Also, nothing is said about the rest between reps. Makes a huge difference. In HS I did the Paavo system and anyone familiar with that systems knows you're running intervals a lot but the rest makes it manageable.
Alan