Why do people question FloJo’s WR…

Because Flojo was "doped to the gills." Duh.

nothing to see here wrote:

But not Joanie Benoit’s 1982 WR 2:26 run? It’s nearly 3 minutes faster than the previous WR mark, it stood during the drug fueled Athletics West/Eastern Bloc period (she was a part of AW with AlSal and Mary D Slaney after all) and then she ran 4 minutes faster seven months later to set the WR again shaving seven minutes off the previous mark. If she was a black woman, setting those marks, LR would have an asterisk next to her accomplishments just like FloJo.

Occum’s razor, folks. You can’t trust anything a boomers do…

Benoit ran during the pioneer days of women's distance running. The women's Olympic marathon wasn't run until 1984 and in that same Olympics, the longest track event for women was 3000m.

In one year, Flojo went from being a medal contender in only the 200 to smashing the WRs in both sprints. She also had a drastic change in her physique and abruptly retired when out of season testing commenced.

I question the wind reading, the numbers don't add up

1) the 0.0 wins reading for Flojo when it was blowing over 4 m/s for the other races that day.

2) I don’t think 2:26 is still the current marathon record.

Wind.

Uh, I don't know, maybe because "She looked like a man, baby".

Every time this gets brought up, it’s LetsRun gold. Always 100+ responses. 10/10 for having the arrogance to start another thread about it.

the flojo WR is bs because of the faulty wind reading, not because of her doping

nothing to see here wrote:

But not Joanie Benoit’s 1982 WR 2:26 run? It’s nearly 3 minutes faster than the previous WR mark, it stood during the drug fueled Athletics West/Eastern Bloc period (she was a part of AW with AlSal and Mary D Slaney after all) and then she ran 4 minutes faster seven months later to set the WR again shaving seven minutes off the previous mark. If she was a black woman, setting those marks, LR would have an asterisk next to her accomplishments just like FloJo.

Occum’s razor, folks. You can’t trust anything a boomers do…

Ageism strikes again in OP’s mere assertion.

Because it was windy as f*** and the wind reading was 0

I think most think she ran 10.49 but it was blowing like crazy

duck sauce wrote:

the flojo WR is bs because of the faulty wind reading, not because of her doping

EXACTLY.

On the video you can see the their bib numers moving before they start and the flag the official is holding behind them is completely straight. Every single horizontal jump and every other race before and after was wind aided.

She died young from doping too much. This is just a fact.

nothing to see here wrote:

But not Joanie Benoit’s 1982 WR 2:26 run? It’s nearly 3 minutes faster than the previous WR mark, it stood during the drug fueled Athletics West/Eastern Bloc period (she was a part of AW with AlSal and Mary D Slaney after all) and then she ran 4 minutes faster seven months later to set the WR again shaving seven minutes off the previous mark. If she was a black woman, setting those marks, LR would have an asterisk next to her accomplishments just like FloJo.

Occum’s razor, folks. You can’t trust anything a boomers do…

Was there even doping for distance runners in the early 80s? I'm seriously asking. I know there was "blood doping" like Lasse Viren did, but that's not PED. And I know Salazar (who else?) was messing around with DMSO. But I don't believe EPO existed for distance runners, or anything else PED-like. Am I wrong?

In any case, the OP's posts is idiotic in general - FloJo's records are the most bogus in sports - and the race card at the end is just the usual lame stunt idiots pull.

One of our coaches was on the staff for the 88 Olympics. When he returned he said that Flojo had gone to see the doctor about the hair growing on her chest.

The doctor takes a look at it and asks, "OMG, how far down does it go?"

Flojo says, "Right down to my balls!"

Bahhhahhah good one!

Star wrote:

1) the 0.0 wins reading for Flojo when it was blowing over 4 m/s for the other races that day.

If 10.49 was legit run in 0.0, had she instead got the same wind nearly every other athlete in every other event got (+4 to +5) she would have run somewhere in the 10.25 to 10.3 range. Let that sink in for a second.

She had been running at about 10.69 basic that year. Guess what 10.69 basic with a +4.5 tailwind gets you?????

Hmmmmmmmmmm

drdr wrote:

One of our coaches was on the staff for the 88 Olympics. When he returned he said that Flojo had gone to see the doctor about the hair growing on her chest.

The doctor takes a look at it and asks, "OMG, how far down does it go?"

Flojo says, "Right down to my balls!"

LOL!

DMSO isnt a PED, its a solvent, but unlike 99% of solvents this one is safe on organic tissue. so you only have to have the IQ of the brojos to not understand whats going on here.

grind up oral steriods, anti-inflamitories etc then mix together with DMSO and apply to specific areas of the body....basically the forerunner for the "cream" aka the designer roid that was applied as a lotion.

as i showed years ago, then all my comments from said thread were magically deleted....in 1977 the precursor for synthetic EPO was being used in clinical studies. They were using blood from sheep to isolate EPO then inject that into people or something of that nature, but there was a big issue, glandular toxoplasmosis.....the same exact thing seb coe came down with. as you can see, this is why my comments, medical papers etc all got deleted.

further in that post i had shown that EPO was being mass produced by 1984, being used and talked about with road bikers by 1988, and then rosa moved to kenya in 1992 and by 1993 they became beyond dominant.

so lets say benoit was going to blood dope or try the scary sheep blood EPO precursor....ummm dont think so, she was in a marginalized event and she was a woman, not some photogenic feel good story either.

you take benoits time of 2:21:21 from 1985 and it was 2nd all time only 2:21:06, and this was to last for 13 yrs before kenyan women were given the EPO only a few years after their men has used it to great success.

now ingrid being from norway was prob privy to blood doping, something benoit might not have had access to. i mean she only had 32:07 10k best, but 2:21:21. how pathetic to think so many years later it took grey area deceiving, better shoes, thyroid meds, etc to have a few american women run faster than that, with 30 min 10k times! hahaha