North African Magic wrote:
Deanouk wrote:
Sief was busted for doping, so his performance shouldn't really be recognised in my book.
Too funny - a lot more were also doping back in that era, Ali Saïdi-Sief just happened to get caught.
Though it's a mile - nothing can top the dream mile at the 2001 Bislett Games in Norway. A loaded field where Ali Saïdi-Sief amazingly beat Kenyan's best at the time (Lagat, Ngeny, Rotich) with a sizzling 3:48.23.
A North African performance to be remembered! ?
https://youtu.be/jn6OlocVgTA
Exemplifies what I mean when I say that the period 1995 - 2010 was the weakest era since likely the 1920s.
Last year there were four North Africans in the world 's top forty 1500m runners, and all four were over 30 years of age except the guy in 39th place (25 yo - 3:35.7). Yet this little region of Africa dominated the event in the full throttle EPO era.