TrackCoach wrote:
Typing Dynamos wrote:
What did Dafne run in 2011 for the 200 in Daegu when she was 18? You know, a good 4 years before the world championships while still training to do the shot put! And way before you 2014 yr.
She also ran 11.19 as a 18 year old. amazing potential for an 18 yr old.
Both of those times are not far from what any world class athletes would have ran as an 18 yr old.
Now Thompson is a whole other deal.
Perhaps your background is distance running and you I don't fully understand how fast 21.63 is. To put it in perspective, that time is faster than the doped up East Germans of the 1980s. Btw, Candace Hill ran 10.98 at age 18, I would be surprised if she ever runs 21.63. There is absolutely nothing in Schippers talent assessment to suggest she was remotely capable of running that fast. And the argument that Schippers was previously focusing on the heptathlon, that means she is a novice and actually makes her performance even more unlikely. Btw, this has absolutely nothing to do with her physique, acne, race or nationality; in fact would love to see a European women go toe-to-toe with the Jamaican and the Americans.
This was TrackCoach explaining his views on Daphne a couple of years back.