Seriously, Dennis?
This was a shot heard around the world.
Seriously, Dennis?
This was a shot heard around the world.
Beto O'Ruiz wrote:
She is an African American athlete, so in true Letsrun fashion make focus of the thread the possibility that she might be doping. And dont forget to include the "pardon me for being suspicious, but given the fact that......"
dude she's coached by a convicted, unrepentant doper.
Convicted, unrepetant.
Nothing more needs to be said.
We should just turn our backs on Richardson.
Yeah I am disinclined to include windy runs in basic lists. It doesn’t matter in this case, as the 2-year progression from 11.4 to 10.8 remains intact.
If you want to keep it, the 1-year progression from 11.28 to 10.82 is even more bombastic, a 0.46 improvement in a single year. There’s that 0.50 signature again, from credible to great, IN HALF THE USUAL TIME.
😮
She is on fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
agip wrote:
Beto O'Ruiz wrote:
She is an African American athlete, so in true Letsrun fashion make focus of the thread the possibility that she might be doping. And dont forget to include the "pardon me for being suspicious, but given the fact that......"
dude she's coached by a convicted, unrepentant doper.
Convicted, unrepetant.
Nothing more needs to be said.
We should just turn our backs on Richardson.
That’s one path forward, meantime she will enter history and maybe re-write some records.
Much better to pay close attention to her, as people are now doing. I think they have really gone out on a limb here, and that it will snap. Remember Rollins, who ultimately had 3 whereabouts violations? You just know something is coming, like with Rollins and Coleman. I think they took things too far. There is no more Diack, there is no more Bolt. This will be much more difficult.
There are many $ flying about, the critical thing is where they land. Covid has been a boon, to some.
The progression is 10.84 to 11.28 .44 secs, how much do you expect a high schooler running off just talent to improve when they go to a college with world class coaching.
She probably never even peaked for a season in high school or even knew what peeking was, and her mechanics weren't great, but very few kids have great mechanics.High training for sprint in America is bad you just run nothing else, not much thought behind the training.
I find the 10.84 to what she might run now more suspicious.
Put it in context.
She goes from 300-400th spot, that year, to #5 the next season, behind,,.the Jamaicans...and tied for #32 performance all-time, and the 9th best performer, ALL-TIME.
For anyone to go from a decent also-ran to top-10 all-time in a single season, improving by a massive .5, strains credulity. Yes those conditions you pointed out may lead to improvement, but that type of improvement is greater than even that which has become emblematic among those athletes who have ultimately been suspended, because it was achieved in a single year, not two years.
Its .44 secs and you are not looking at the full context.How old was she when she ran both prs?What type of training did she have?Was she taught anything about proper sprint mechanics in high school?Could she consistently execute a good race.
With LSU'S training and coaching I'm confident she could have ran 11.05 in 2018
Sprintgeezer wrote:
Yeah I am disinclined to include windy runs in basic lists. It doesn’t matter in this case, as the 2-year progression from 11.4 to 10.8 remains intact.
If you want to keep it, the 1-year progression from 11.28 to 10.82 is even more bombastic, a 0.46 improvement in a single year. There’s that 0.50 signature again, from credible to great, IN HALF THE USUAL TIME.
😮
She is on fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It's 1988 all over again ...
fasterrr wrote:
Its .44 secs and you are not looking at the full context.How old was she when she ran both prs?What type of training did she have?Was she taught anything about proper sprint mechanics in high school?Could she consistently execute a good race.
With LSU'S training and coaching I'm confident she could have ran 11.05 in 2018
1-It’s not .44, it’s 0.60 because I don’t include windy times as the effect is non-linear and there are increasingly important confounding variables involved.
2-Even if you want to use .44, .44 vs .5 is splitting hairs. It is effectively a half-second—just the same as 0.60 is a half-second.
3-That half-second over 2 years is emblematic. I have detailed it on this board.
4-Even if we use 11.12 in 2018, that’s an improvement of .44 over effectively 2 years, because the non-year of 2020 doesn’t count.
5-Sure she might improve—even by a half-second—legitimately, but that is a tall order. Furthermore, it’s not just how much she improves, but where she starts out, and where she ends up, and what company she ends up in. She went from a credible lane-filler to the fastest of all-time, in the company of 2 sanctioned athletes, an athlete with a newly spread jaw and teeth, an athlete whose voice cracked like an adolescent boy’s, and an athlete who retired suddenly at her peak, and who died at an extremely early age.
Again, the world is now taking a close look.