Remember that distance runner that said he does 100x400 meters for a workout and coaches had their kids doing it? No bigger sign of juice than doing 100 400s at a practice but not a peep. Crazy
Obviously she was totally juiced and how she got away with it would make a great read. Had to have been some master plan to pull it off like they did. This is the best example of what PED's can do for an athlete.
You would need a master plan now for such hard-core doping, but not in the 80s. Back then, one could dope to the gills all year long, except right during international competitions, and be totally fine. Recall that of all the juiced East German dopers, only one got ever caught. Also if you did get caught here, USATF would come to the rescue and cover it up.
It was 35 years ago. Yes, you're right, but at this point, nobody cares. Much like the German and later Chinese women. We know they were doped. It was decades ago. Move on.
100m Florence Griffith Joyner (United States) - 10.49 (7.0 m/s) 16 July 1988, US Olympic Trials, Indianapolis, United States
This race was the quarter-final of the U.S. Olympic trials in 1988. It was wind-aided and drug-aided!
The wind gauge was faulty for the race in which Florence Griffith Joyner set this record.
A 1995 report commissioned by the IAAF estimated the true wind speed was between +5.0 m/s and +7.0 m/s that day in Indianapolis, rather than the 0.0 recorded.
You can clearly see her hair blowing in the wind at the start line and after the race.
Florence Griffith Joyner (aka ‘Flo Jo’) was on Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) big time in the 1980’s. As a result she started to grow facial had, her voice deepened, her muscles became bigger and she started running super fast.
A workout she did in 1988 involved a time trial of two 600m runs. Where she had to go through the first 400m in 49 seconds. So she was approaching the world record even in workouts. Crazy.
Because she did PEDs to such an extreme extent, she died of the long term side effects in 1998 at the age of 38.
Anyone who has truly studied T&F knows that Flo-Jo was a disgrace. It’s of course not a coincidence that the second they started compulsory drug testing that she retired, at 29 years old and literally months after she broke world records? Who does that? Dopers.
Let’s add some context. There are and were leaked reports of several (7-8?) positive tests from the ‘84 LA Olympics. These were American medalists and covered up by the testers. Flo Jo was late to the party, but when she arrived, she stole the limelight.
Yup-only difference between FloJo and Benroid is that Ben got caught-that Seoul 100m final still one of the best of all time-only clean runners were Robson DeSilva and Calvin Smith...
The only thing you said that was true was that the race was wind aided. You could actually hear the wind on the microphones and their bib numbers were flapping when they were in the blocks. In addition all the marks in the LJ which was also in the same direction were wind aided that day in Indianapolis.
Flo Jo repeatedly broke the previous 10.76 world record in 1988 when there was virtually no wind.
If she was doping, please provide the evidence and proof of that. She had already won the silver medal in 1984 Olympics.
49876 You are delusional and no doubt American. You say provide the proof. The fact that she had such a marked improvement in her times, in such a short time span, is one of the many things that prove she was "juiced to the gills". She was also built like a man when she broke the record. Did you see her legs? She was built like a smaller version of Serena Williams who has cheated her whole career. The USDA simply had no desire to ban her for any length of time, just like the time when she threatened the poor line judge who dared call her for a foot fault in the final against Kim Clijsters. They did fine her $100,000 which is a drop in the bucket for the girlilla. She should have been banned for at least a year!!!! Both her and Ben were on the juice back in 1988, the difference being Ben got caught, even though most of the runners in the men's final were juiced. Interesting too how she retired only month's after the drug testing program went into full effect. She knew she could NEVER match her time of 10.49 clean. How could a female athlete who was supposedly in great shape die at such a young age? Get you head out of your ass 49876!!!!
Interesting how no other country has had as many track athletes banned as the U.S. The list is too long to list here. Shericka's name may appear on the list, however, jealousy will get you nowhere!!!!
49876 You are delusional and no doubt American. You say provide the proof. The fact that she had such a marked improvement in her times, in such a short time span, is one of the many things that prove she was "juiced to the gills". She was also built like a man when she broke the record. Did you see her legs? She was built like a smaller version of Serena Williams who has cheated her whole career. The USDA simply had no desire to ban her for any length of time, just like the time when she threatened the poor line judge who dared call her for a foot fault in the final against Kim Clijsters. They did fine her $100,000 which is a drop in the bucket for the girlilla. She should have been banned for at least a year!!!! Both her and Ben were on the juice back in 1988, the difference being Ben got caught, even though most of the runners in the men's final were juiced. Interesting too how she retired only month's after the drug testing program went into full effect. She knew she could NEVER match her time of 10.49 clean. How could a female athlete who was supposedly in great shape die at such a young age? Get you head out of your ass 49876!!!!
and they ban runners like Caster Semenya or Salwa Eid Naser for almost nothing simply because they dont like their profil.
She was a doper racing against dopers. Drug testing was less frequent and less sensitive back then, so runners were able to get away with more intensive doping.
For those who think that doping is "worse" today, we need only look at the hard data on the track to disprove that notion. The events most affected by the crude but potent steroids of the era are those that require the most strength and explosiveness. Furthermore, women see a more dramatic result from such doping than men, because of their naturally lower baseline testosterone.
The women's data:
100m: record set in 1988* (arguably finally surpassed in 2021 when you discount the 0.0 wind day)
200m: record set in 1988
400m: record set in 1985
800m: record set in 1983
Modern runners were able to beat the 1985 4x100 time in 2012 (with very good baton passes), but the 4x400 from 1988 still stands.
Long jump, 1988. High jump, 1987. Shot put, 1987. Discus, 1988.
We have faster tracks, faster shoes, better and more comprehensive training and diets, and yet our women struggle to compete with their forebears, many of which came from countries that have largely fallen far off the top of track&field since then.
Part of me wonders what our modern best would do without having to worry about today's testing, using 80s-style doping. Sydney McLaughlin would be growing facial hair, but she'd be running 49.7 in the hurdles and 47.3 in the flat. Thompson Herah and SAFP would be sniffing at 10.3 high, though I'm not sure SAFP would have been fertile enough to have a kid afterward.
She was a doper racing against dopers. Drug testing was less frequent and less sensitive back then, so runners were able to get away with more intensive doping.
For those who think that doping is "worse" today, we need only look at the hard data on the track to disprove that notion. The events most affected by the crude but potent steroids of the era are those that require the most strength and explosiveness. Furthermore, women see a more dramatic result from such doping than men, because of their naturally lower baseline testosterone.
The women's data:
100m: record set in 1988* (arguably finally surpassed in 2021 when you discount the 0.0 wind day)
200m: record set in 1988
400m: record set in 1985
800m: record set in 1983
Modern runners were able to beat the 1985 4x100 time in 2012 (with very good baton passes), but the 4x400 from 1988 still stands.
Long jump, 1988. High jump, 1987. Shot put, 1987. Discus, 1988.
We have faster tracks, faster shoes, better and more comprehensive training and diets, and yet our women struggle to compete with their forebears, many of which came from countries that have largely fallen far off the top of track&field since then.
Part of me wonders what our modern best would do without having to worry about today's testing, using 80s-style doping. Sydney McLaughlin would be growing facial hair, but she'd be running 49.7 in the hurdles and 47.3 in the flat. Thompson Herah and SAFP would be sniffing at 10.3 high, though I'm not sure SAFP would have been fertile enough to have a kid afterward.
As doped as the runners were from the Eastern Bloc, the big 3 Yams are much more muscular than the various East German runners.
Granted the Yams have different doping protocols but the bad teeth bull necks are dead giveaways about the Yam doping.
Part of me wonders what our modern best would do without having to worry about today's testing, using 80s-style doping. Sydney McLaughlin would be growing facial hair, but she'd be running 49.7 in the hurdles and 47.3 in the flat. Thompson Herah and SAFP would be sniffing at 10.3 high, though I'm not sure SAFP would have been fertile enough to have a kid afterward.
LOL if you think the Jamaican women are clean I have a bridge to sell you.
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