Helping you out on doping wrote:
People will lay off the drug talk when we hear an explanation of the EPO drug bust where Aden was arrested with an athlete of his in possession of a lot of EPO. The arrest was after a sting that was initiated because he was seen dropping syringes in waste baskets around town. Dibaba and her sisters were with many Aden athletes at the hotel when Aden was arrested and his athlete was found with many preloaded injections of EPO in his room.
Discussion of times alone is not dispositive one way or the other. Plus, I would expect lots of people to run near their 800 or with a running start after running 700 at 10k pace.
rojo wrote:I just put up the IOC's results which have every 100 on it.
Kipyegon 01:57.3 (15.7+14.7+14.5+13.7+13.9+13.8+14.8+16.1)
Dibaba 01:58.5
Simpson 01:59.0
Rowbury 01:59.3
Look how amazing those spltis are for Kipyegon. She tired up big in the last 200 as she ran a 55.9 from 600 to 200 out.
Simpson's 800 pb is 2:00.45.
This race needs to get people to calm down about the drug talk. Last year, half of the fans are like, "There is no way a clean woman can run an 800 pb in a 1500." Well Jenny Simpson - whom I assume everyone thinks is clean - just did it.
Amen