Many track and field athletes have one outlier performance when everything clicks on a certain day, and they never come close to that performance again.
Your statement has nothing to do with Jackie Joyner Kersee. Jackie Joyner Kersee had THREE years of outlier heptathlon performances. It wasn't a one time fluke. She was destroying the other heptathletes from 1986 to 1988.
Then her heptathlon scores fell off a cliff.
She was finally able to get over 7000 again in 1992, which was her best non-drugged score.
Why do you assume she wasn't taking something in 1992? Seems likely that they just found something new to take.
No,jackie's best non drugged hepthathlon score was probably around 6'500,and thats being generous.she full throttle doped in the 80s,and kept up with it in the 90s.1992 she was full throttle doping again.
Many track and field athletes have one outlier performance when everything clicks on a certain day, and they never come close to that performance again.
Your statement has nothing to do with Jackie Joyner Kersee. Jackie Joyner Kersee had THREE years of outlier heptathlon performances. It wasn't a one time fluke. She was destroying the other heptathletes from 1986 to 1988.
Then her heptathlon scores fell off a cliff.
She was finally able to get over 7000 again in 1992, which was her best non-drugged score.
On the other hand…. Isn’t this very typical of athletics. You train until you hit a peak. after that sometimes you are able to break through and reach a new peak but sometimes that previous peak was the best you got… you get hurt, you get older, the same training stimulus doesn’t have the same effects. a 3 year peak is quite good actually. a drop in performance doesn’t necessarily equate to something nefarious going on.
If ever a thread was I have no idea what I am talking about! A few fun facts.
Check his troops out in the 800 during his time at UCLA.
If you knew how BK trains you would not be concerned about this.
For the JJK doping experts, a significant omission in your recounting of her career is her hamstring injury. Ultimately is was the injury that derailed her, not some switch in drug regimen. If it were, we would have seen a fall off in her jumping and hurdling too. FOr those of us old enough to recall those days, after that 200 pull, which was really bad, she started running tentatively off the turn, and it was clear and evident.
Do any of you even know Mu and Miller's training background, and how they were trained under Mallard? Reading these posts the answer is no. You never even thought about it. Trust me there is not going to be a hard transition for the kids in regards to training programs.
She did compete in 1989, over 400mh. Did that make her exempt from out of competition testing?
You totally missed the point. The point is that Jackie Joyner Kersee's heptathlon scores fell off a cliff as soon as out of competition drug tested started in 1989. She wasn't exempt from out of competition drug testing starting in 1989, which is why she never got close to 7291 again.
She scored 7291 in late 1988. Her next heptathlon after that she couldn't even break 6800. That's what happens when you go off the steroids that you had been taken.
The inference in your original post was that JJK did not compete at all in 1989 because random drug testing came in. But as other posters have pointed out, facts don't seem to suit your narrative. Comparing her post 7291 first heptathlon to the 7291 itself is, quite simply, asinine.
The records for the female 400 and 800m are about to fall. Adding the women’s 4*4 record. Watch and see. The chemist made a good pudding in the last batch. The same recipe will be used in the new batch.
You totally missed the point. The point is that Jackie Joyner Kersee's heptathlon scores fell off a cliff as soon as out of competition drug tested started in 1989. She wasn't exempt from out of competition drug testing starting in 1989, which is why she never got close to 7291 again.
She scored 7291 in late 1988. Her next heptathlon after that she couldn't even break 6800. That's what happens when you go off the steroids that you had been taken.
The inference in your original post was that JJK did not compete at all in 1989 because random drug testing came in.
You're still completely missing the point. Jackie Joyner Kersee's DID continue to compete in 1989, 1990, 1991 etc. There was NO inference that she didn't compete. Your reading comprehension is very poor.
The point is that her heptathlon scores went WAY down as soon as she started to get drug tested out of competition. That's what happens when someone stops taking drugs.
Is she transferring to another college then or dropping out of college? I hate it when young people do not complete their education.
She hasn't said one way or the other if she's going to school in LA.
But when she went pro after her freshman year she said that she wanted to get her degree. And she at least finished her sophomore year, so she's halfway there.
Thanks for this. Obviously I’ve heard of the allegations against Kersee’s athletes but the way this thread was going, I genuinely thought someone had tested positive and was a convicted doper and somehow I’d missed it.
No way marita's record will be broken by sydney or athing, unless they can get their sprint times down to 10.7/21.6.if marita's or even jarmila's records get broken,there will be a lot of questions.Or there should be.
Semenya was a full second off the record and almost a full second faster than Mu who couldn't even run 1.55.xx this summer. Mu is so out of chances that I agree, if she suddenly drops a low 1.53 it will raise more questions than answers.
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