Remeber now Bk was ranked 4th in the world in 1994 and 6th in 1996. That means he was the equivalent of Eliud Kiphcoge in todays racing scene. How is that for perspective? AND this was goin on while the African runners had already taken a firm grasp on distance runners. I wish I were older so i could I have actualy cared about track so I could I have watched him.
jama wrote:
There is no need to slam anyone and compare them to BK or the Kenyans!!! Let their results speak for themselves.
Ok. Looking at the results, the best Americans are still slower than we we're 10 years ago and still much slower than the Kenyans. But still a good and exciting race by all.
Wow, I wonder what people started to do differently in their training from 1990-1995? During the 1990-1995 time frame, the 5K WR dropped 14 seconds and the number of people sub-13:20 went up by %350. The biggest jump before that was 1978-1982, 6 seconds and %115.
Silverback wrote:
Wow, I wonder what people started to do differently in their training from 1990-1995? During the 1990-1995 time frame, the 5K WR dropped 14 seconds and the number of people sub-13:20 went up by %350. The biggest jump before that was 1978-1982, 6 seconds and %115.
Nothing different in training, just different people from different countries.
but we're faster than we were five years ago. and probably much deeper than we were five or ten years ago. you have to start somewhere.
We could quite easily have 6 athletes (Broe, Hall, Dobson, Lagat, and hopefully Ritz and Goucher) at sub 13:20 this year...the most ever!
To the Petercopter wrote:
Silverback wrote:Wow, I wonder what people started to do differently in their training from 1990-1995? During the 1990-1995 time frame, the 5K WR dropped 14 seconds and the number of people sub-13:20 went up by %350. The biggest jump before that was 1978-1982, 6 seconds and %115.
Nothing different in training, just different people from different countries.
DRUGS, specifically EPO! no other explanation needed.
and Torres