Jamaica is producing more top sprinters than any other nation and this from a population of less than 3 million people. One small US city. If you buy that you will buy anything.
Of course FloJo was clean. So was Marita Koch, Jarmila Kratochvilova, Marion Jones, Ben Johnson, Justn Gatlin, Asafa Powell, Elvan Abeylegesse, Mariya Savinova, Antonio Pettigrew, Jerome Young, ... and all the rest. Nobody has ever used drugs at the Olympic level.
rupp, doorbell mo, bobblehead paula, centro, rowbury, hasay, sleazy sal were all every bit as clean as flojo, koch, kratochvilova
So you have absolutely no opinion on why they defend Houlihan to the hilt despite her positive test, conviction and lost appeals?
Yet make ugly insinuations about a an un convicted Jamaican runner?
Nothing in that makes you uncomfortable?
Are you a bit dense? I just said I don't endorse the defense of Houlihan. I also happen to think most top runners are doping and tests don't catch them. Nothing about that makes me uncomfortable.
I also think most top runners are doping.
However, once more, don’t you think that is slightly hypocritical on Gault and LR’s part? A huge contrast in their actions and words.
Most of us are capable of wrapping our heads around both concepts.
Jamaica is producing more top sprinters than any other nation and this from a population of less than 3 million people. One small US city. If you buy that you will buy anything.
unfortunately most people don't care. I stand by Gault for asking a question that is easy to answer, unless you are also cheating.
Are you a bit dense? I just said I don't endorse the defense of Houlihan. I also happen to think most top runners are doping and tests don't catch them. Nothing about that makes me uncomfortable.
I also think most top runners are doping.
However, once more, don’t you think that is slightly hypocritical on Gault and LR’s part? A huge contrast in their actions and words.
Most of us are capable of wrapping our heads around both concepts.
They aren't related concepts. One more time: I don't support the defense made on this board of Houlihan. However a question about what is commonly regarded as a doped world record is not contentious in informed circles. It isn't an accusation being levelled at Jackson, but is whether she accepts that her performance is likely - by implication - to be the fastest "clean" time recorded. The question has no relationship to the Houlihan case.
Jamaica is producing more top sprinters than any other nation and this from a population of less than 3 million people. One small US city. If you buy that you will buy anything.
unfortunately most people don't care. I stand by Gault for asking a question that is easy to answer, unless you are also cheating.
However, once more, don’t you think that is slightly hypocritical on Gault and LR’s part? A huge contrast in their actions and words.
Most of us are capable of wrapping our heads around both concepts.
They aren't related concepts. One more time: I don't support the defense made on this board of Houlihan. However a question about what is commonly regarded as a doped world record is not contentious in informed circles. It isn't an accusation being levelled at Jackson, but is whether she accepts that her performance is likely - by implication - to be the fastest "clean" time recorded. The question has no relationship to the Houlihan case.
They ABSOLUTELY ARE when the discussion is about Gault’s line of questioning and attitude as a ‘journalist’
You do get that this discussion and thread title are in large part about Gault’s behavior?
They aren't related concepts. One more time: I don't support the defense made on this board of Houlihan. However a question about what is commonly regarded as a doped world record is not contentious in informed circles. It isn't an accusation being levelled at Jackson, but is whether she accepts that her performance is likely - by implication - to be the fastest "clean" time recorded. The question has no relationship to the Houlihan case.
They ABSOLUTELY ARE when the discussion is about Gault’s line of questioning and attitude as a ‘journalist’
You do get that this discussion and thread title are in large part about Gault’s behavior?
They aren't related concepts. One more time: I don't support the defense made on this board of Houlihan. However a question about what is commonly regarded as a doped world record is not contentious in informed circles. It isn't an accusation being levelled at Jackson, but is whether she accepts that her performance is likely - by implication - to be the fastest "clean" time recorded. The question has no relationship to the Houlihan case.
They ABSOLUTELY ARE when the discussion is about Gault’s line of questioning and attitude as a ‘journalist’
You do get that this discussion and thread title are in large part about Gault’s behavior?
No, they are not. Your assertion doesn't make that true. Gault's question is a fair question - even if it makes fans like you bridle.
They aren't related concepts. One more time: I don't support the defense made on this board of Houlihan. However a question about what is commonly regarded as a doped world record is not contentious in informed circles. It isn't an accusation being levelled at Jackson, but is whether she accepts that her performance is likely - by implication - to be the fastest "clean" time recorded. The question has no relationship to the Houlihan case.
They ABSOLUTELY ARE when the discussion is about Gault’s line of questioning and attitude as a ‘journalist’
You do get that this discussion and thread title are in large part about Gault’s behavior?
How in the actual f is a usually good poster missing this most obvious point?
The conversation is as much about Gault as it is Jackson, arguably even more.
They ABSOLUTELY ARE when the discussion is about Gault’s line of questioning and attitude as a ‘journalist’
You do get that this discussion and thread title are in large part about Gault’s behavior?
How in the actual f is a usually good poster missing this most obvious point?
The conversation is as much about Gault as it is Jackson, arguably even more.
What Gault has said in the past about Houlihan has no relationship to his question to Jackson. He didn't accuse her of doping. His observation about Flojo's record is a commonplace.
He doesn't have to be right about all issues to be able to ask a valid question. No one does.
The concerns in this thread are of over-sensitive fans. The journalist is not the issue; it is always the athletes.