Bad Wigins wrote:
msft wrote:They don't all burn out. Slaney hit her peak in 1982-83 and set the world record in the mile in 1985, 12 years after she set her first world record.
Tirunesh Dibaba was a teen prodigy and won a WC Gold in 1983 at age 18. She is still going strong.
Maybe not all, but the vast majority.
Also Slaney is a known doper and doesn't count. And Dibaba races dirty.
So what are you suggesting that she slows down, doesn't pursue her maximum potential and just gradually approaches the level that she could have been at years earlier with proper training?