HRE wrote:
Nike wrote:
I wonder why East Germany didn't have more good marathon runners.
Tom Osler commented on this in his last book, "Serious Runners' Manual" or some such title. His quote was something like "the men in the white lab coats will never out perform an enjoyable run in the forest." I don't have either the title or the quote completely accurate but his point was that they were overly analytical and missed the enjoyable more artistic aspect to running marathons. I liked that quote, whatever it actually was.
Katrin Dörre-Heinig.
Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, London, Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt marathon winner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrin_D%C3%B6rre-HeinigUta Pipping competed for East Germany.
3 x Boston winner
2 x Berlin
1 x New York
I knew I'd seen the 1980 confession, the athlete was Aleksandras Antipov(as), the real source is the interview with the journal Sovietskii Sport in 1989 reprinted as a telegraph item in some western outlets:
https://fasterskier.com/fsarticle/limiting-factors-a-genesis-of-blood-doping-part-four/I also know today that Michael Kalinsky knew N.I. Volkov personally very closely from his Soviet days, so it is very possible that Kalinsky knew in person many details of the Soviet blood doping program and the praxis of the method and wasn't just speculating about the widespread blood doping culture.
Do you have any source of Alberto Cova's confession to blood doping?
I think Cova admitted the use of blood doping to journalist Oliviero Beha in 1982 even when I've seen a source from 1984 claiming he later denied having used the method.
Who would look best running topless - Trump, Hillary or Putin?
American men regularly now run sub 13 5k and sun 27 10k but marathons stuck at 2:07. What gives?
Gjert did it again - produces another Diamond League champ. Nordas over Lobalu and Grijalva 7:33.49
2024 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion
Nordas running 3:34 with one shoe is proof that supershoes don’t work