Actually, it's pretty shocking that Kiptoo is the first person to set an age record in super shoes of anyone over 47, of which he is only 48. Perhaps it's possible that the older runners are as masters, the less likely they are to get the gains from super shoes that younger runners get. Perhaps related to the reduction in resilience of the tendons (Achilles) and the significant loss of strength in key muscles (soleus) seen with aging. Still, it looks like Kiptoo has the potential to re-write the age WR list for who knows how many years to come. It is interesting, as well, that none of the runners on that list are of East African background. That right there suggests to me that those records could be threatened in years to come.
Hugh’s ran 2:28 at 59. And 2:30 at 62. You really want to say the shoes didn’t help him run faster? We have only had the new shoes for a half dozen years and the age group phenoms don’t come around that often. Guy like Piet van alphen are athletes that show up every 50 years. Eventually things will line up and some dude will smash a bunch of those records. But it might take another decade or two.
Do you think Piet Van Alphen progression suspicious?
If it were that simple, the most reasonable AIU would have charged and convicted Katir with an "Use or Attempted Use" (Article 2.2) rule violation. They do not make that leap because it would be irrational.
No, they wouldn't. They didn't have a drug for which they could charge him with use or attempted use - you don't understand the rules - but they could show he failed to meet his testing requirements and that he attempted to tamper with evidence. Any reasonable person would know he had no reason to do that unless he was doping. But antidoping doesn't need to show that and you aren't such a person.
They didn't because it would be irrational -- the opposite of reasonable -- to do so, without any reasons.
As I said before, there is always some likelihood that any athlete doped.
In quantum electrodynamics that’s called the superposed wave state. But the thing is we know about El G more than enough to collapse that superposed wave state into a clear and definite outcome of clean. He passed the 8 year statute of limitations so any last relic of EPO present would have been sussed out by WADA if he doped in Athens 04.
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