MJ's 19.32 Legit or on Drugs

trackhead wrote:

I'm going to be seeing some of my sprint-friends in Sacramento (I'll be there for a few days starting today). I'll be interested to see what they say.

So:

I think that Young was enhanced, given his huge improvement and quick disappearance from the sport, and the consistent talk of his use --- but --- I think that Smith is an honest coach and wouldn't dope his runners. I'll be interested what I can find out.

Interested in what you found out.

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count me in wrote:

I vote legit.

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The 200 was mind bending, but enough about that. If he had been doping, I would expect he would've had a 42.06 400 or something similarly extraordinary. Remember, Ato and Frankie blazed the track at the same time, just slightly further behind MJ than usual.

I don't know what race you saw. Atl was half a second behind and Frankie finished about 1/3 second behind MJ. Neither of them dropped 0.34 seconds off their PB and both were in the shape of their life AND had someone to chase.

So, so disappointed.

Really thought this was going to be a thread about whether Michael Jackson could have ran a 19:32. Not another tired thread questioning drugs usage of a fellow American hero. I guess no one's ever going to ask about the real MJ...

The chances it was done cleanly are 0.0000000%

Subway Surfers wrote:

The chances it was done cleanly are 0.0000000%

Not even 0.0000001%? ?

Let's Get To The Bottom Of This wrote:

Subway Surfers wrote:

The chances it was done cleanly are 0.0000000%

Not even 0.0000001%? ?

Mathematical certainty my friend ?

Something like that. Like Bolt and Radcliffe etc.

Kucimat wrote:

With all the recent drug allegations, it is hard not to question the legitimacy of MJ's 200 meter world record. Does anyone know the facts? I definitely hope it's legit, but with hardly anyone breaking 20s this days, one has to wonder.

Unless tests were suppressed, we'll honestly never know. He was a childhood hero of mine, those gold shoes, the super human power for me to watch at 9 years old made me fall in love with running track.

It's only natural to wonder with him having a stroke at such a young age. Maybe it was something genetic too, that can't be dismissed either. Everything we know in present day, he passed his mandatory tests and his times stand.

casual obsever wrote:

Something like that. Like Bolt and Radcliffe etc.

Casual, funny story for you. This time last year I was down at my local track coaching my nephew and my old 400m coach from high school was there. We started talking about the state of the sport, then doping. This person was always "x is definitely doping" etc and then I said "as if anyone could run 9.5 cleanly," they interjected "Oh Bolt, he's clean, he was good from a young age." There's actually people out there that believe that Bolt can crush the cheats on nothing but hard training and reggae music. ?

I too believe that Bolt is the real deal.

It was just a matter of time before someone his size decided to go into track and field. I remember watching him live at the World Juniors in Beijing. Wow! Anyone who saw him then knew he would dominate the sport for years to come.

Britney wrote:

It was the Burger King Whoppers.

It was the golden spikes