El G's level of dominance remains unsurpassed

Pointless and Useless .You just go back to 1995 and look what Hicham El Guerrouj ,then 21 years old, and look what was his curriculum back then . Then just open Wikipedia and look what Jakob Ingebrigsten has done and win till now 21 years old . Nothing more to say. period

Yeah - Morceli saw what Cacho was having and decided he was having some himself. The rest is history.

Age reasoning which is clueless.
If we follow your reasoning Mohamed Ali will never be considered the greater of all since Tyson came to fame younger than him.
Don't ask people to come to fame at the age 17 or 18. It's not a criteria.

You have your
Mo Farah, Sifan, Barega
to tell you about the complicated curve of athletics work.
Barega run 12:43 (5000m) at the age 18, and ranked 5 and the senior world champions at the 16. Did Ingerbrigsten do that?

Try to post also the graph the show the use of peds years 90's 00's, in those years before 1997 in cycling and other endurance sport it was common to have HCT near 60% and hemoglobin 18,5g/dl, plus strenght hormones let me tell you fly but also risk your health . Then compare the graph nowdays especially in track and field. You will have your answer.

The book Running with the Legends mentions that Morceli dealt with a hip injury through most of 1992 so his training was hampered and he only really hit his peak after the Olympics. There were a lot of other alleged things happening in the Barcelona race too, lol.

Morceli was a 3:31:00 runner from 1990 to 19 August 1991.

He did a big jump to 3:28:86 in 6 September 1992.

He never past to the level 3:29 before that.

Morceli was a 3:31:00 runner from 1991 to 19 August 1992.
He did a big jump to 3:28:86 in 6 September 1992.
He never past to the level 3:29 before that.

Myself I was surprised by the "harsh" jump few weeks after Barcelona Olympic final.

He was actually 29 when he ran his last race in 2004. Retired mid summer 2005, without having raced.

Seriously you should consider smarter option instead of this retirement nonsense theory.

I will tell you more: try to blackmail El G. entourage maybe someone like Benzriguinat or Kada betray the hided truth (of complot theory of your imagination).

NSA INTERVIEW - Abdelkader Kada - World Athletics (2003)

link

The poor standards from Seoul 88 to Barcelona says a lot about the competition that Morceli faced. A few of them, probably starting with Cacho, went on the new sauce in 92-94, and the times started tumbling down.

Between 1990 - 1993 (four years) Morceli had the top 7 times, and the next best was Simon Doyle 3:31.96. Peter Elliott looked like breaking through to the level of the greats he was following, but got injured after that fantastic spell he had in the first half of 1990, and then got old.

Morceli had no competition until El G, other than a juiced Cacho at Barcelona. Even leaving aside EPO suspicions, any of the great 80's runners would have dominated that era just as much as Morceli did. Up until his sudden improvement after Barcelona, Morceli hadn't broken 3:31.

You can't rank Morceli above Coe just because he had faster times (almost certainly EPO aided) and 'dominated' for more years. Coe won two golds, and had the Olympic record for decades. He was 1 or 2 in 1979 and his narrow defeat to Bile showed he was number 2 in 1989.

I think the point is the charts compare someone near the start of their career (21) with people after their careers so from that sense it is a bit pointless since it's not like with like. It shows how much Jakob would need to do which is a ton, and nobody would bet on him catching El G in terms of achievements (whatever your feelings about El G and doping). He may never be THE greatest, but he will always be A great, which is a heck of an achievement for a Norwegian reality TV star 🤣

I hope I'm wrong but I would be surprised if Jakob has a long career ahead.. his brothers peaked early and he has an incredible volume of work done since age 13.. hard to sustain that mentally as well as physically!. As I say I hope I'm wrong, he is great fun to watch and the sport needs people like him.

Another point I want to bring, is that El Guerrouj unlike Aouita is someone that have very few contact with the milieu. As Berkani temperament he should be very reserved in his relations.
This is the reason you will find very few breaches for his private life or methods of training. Or find some leaks about him.
I'm almost certain he was someone serious in the trainings.

Image:i.imgur.com/cuwYtZq.jpg

Coe has had not a single season where he was the dominant Miler. In 79 and 81 he set records but hasn't raced his main rival.

Morceli was dominant in 90, 91, 93, 94 and 95. In his two not dominant seasons during his prime, he set a 1500m WR and became Olympic champion. It's not a question that he has to be ranked ahead of Coe.

Are you not supposed to be mourning your queen? Another Brit on this site saying Brits didn't take P.E.D.s but Africans took P.E.D.s. It is logical to assume S. Coe was on The Clear or steroids more powerful than The Clear. For S. Coe to have been able to defeat north Africans from 1990's, S. Coe would have to have been allowed to continue most likely using The Clear or more powerful steroids.

Cool pic. Centro, Lagat, El G, Makhloufi, Farah, Gebrhiwet, Coe…my only question is

That's Nawal El Moutawakel, first Arab/African women to get a medal in a Olympic game.

and here is the wife of El Guerrouj, her name Nouha Lahbil.

Image:assets.aws.worldathletics.org/large/f8...

(from her family name, it sound like she is from his region)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HICHAM!

"El G's level of doping remains unsurpassed"