Already bored talking drugs, don't you guys ever get tired of this?
Unless an athlete actually gets popped for using they are clean, just how it goes. Accusations simply don't work.
Not when they're black or women, no, not on here.
This god forsaken site is so overrun with tiny dick incel racist losers, it's truly remarkable. T&FN is so dry, so as bad it is, this is somehow, someway the lesser of the two evils.
I've heard off and on for years on this board that Bobby Kersee is widely suspected of drugging up his Olympic athletes, going back to JJK in the 80s (whose records still haven't been touched, by the way). Wasn't Flojo coached by Kersee too?
However, over the years, I've heard very little suspicion of Allyson Felix and none regarding Sydney McLaughlin. Now, it's true that both of these athletes had very gradual progressions since being ultra-elite high school athletes. They haven't blown away records like Flojo or JJK. Maybe Kersee has backed off in recent years?
Regarding McLaughlin, however, I submit to you the story Rojo linked in another thread this morning. Look at Sydney's facial features in the photo.
Something's changed a little there, similar to what we've seen in other steroid athletes. Has Kersee administered some levels of the stuff that's boosted her just enough to lower those hurdle times this year like she has? I just don't understand why she (and to a lesser degree, Felix) gets a free pass when Kersee is widely suspected of doping his athletes from a previous generation.
Mclaughlin shows zero visible signs of usage....
She just has a minimal difference between the 400 open and hurdles.. Probably around 1.3 seconds.. Unless she breaks 48.75 in the 400 open then it's not a big deal.
All of the fastest 400 runners run the 400 and not the 400 hurdles. Shaunae Millers 48.36 is the better run out of the two.
She would have to break 50 in the 400 hurdles and run something like 49.75 to be able to run faster than 48.36 in the 400 open.
She just has a minimal difference between the 400 open and hurdles.. Probably around 1.3 seconds.. Unless she breaks 48.75 in the 400 open then it's not a big deal.
All of the fastest 400 runners run the 400 and not the 400 hurdles. Shaunae Millers 48.36 is the better run out of the two.
She would have to break 50 in the 400 hurdles and run something like 49.75 to be able to run faster than 48.36 in the 400 open.
Sydney differential between the 400 and the 400h is more than 1.3 seconds, probably more like 1.7 seconds.
But in any case, you make a good point about Sydney's 50.68 vs Shaunae Miller-Uibo's 48.36. Miller-Uibo's time is a much higher quality time than what Sydney just ran, by about .6 or .7 seconds.
She just has a minimal difference between the 400 open and hurdles.. Probably around 1.3 seconds.. Unless she breaks 48.75 in the 400 open then it's not a big deal.
All of the fastest 400 runners run the 400 and not the 400 hurdles. Shaunae Millers 48.36 is the better run out of the two.
She would have to break 50 in the 400 hurdles and run something like 49.75 to be able to run faster than 48.36 in the 400 open.
Sydney differential between the 400 and the 400h is more than 1.3 seconds, probably more like 1.7 seconds.
But in any case, you make a good point about Sydney's 50.68 vs Shaunae Miller-Uibo's 48.36. Miller-Uibo's time is a much higher quality time than what Sydney just ran, by about .6 or .7 seconds.
She was, until her jaw massively widened (very suspiciously) around the age of 20! Bobby may be up to his old tricks, but he's just much better at hiding it now..
She was, until her jaw massively widened (very suspiciously) around the age of 20! Bobby may be up to his old tricks, but he's just much better at hiding it now..
I used to be a fan of hers but, like Felix, her face is like a commercial for HGH.
Sydney differential between the 400 and the 400h is more than 1.3 seconds, probably more like 1.7 seconds.
But in any case, you make a good point about Sydney's 50.68 vs Shaunae Miller-Uibo's 48.36. Miller-Uibo's time is a much higher quality time than what Sydney just ran, by about .6 or .7 seconds.
That's not the differential we're talking about. What we're talking about is the differential between what Sydney can run in the flat 400 vs the 400h.
Her 50.68 in the 400h means that she can run the flat 400 in around 49.0, which is very good, but not nearly as good as Miller-Uibo's 48.36.
I agree that Sydney's 50.68 doesn't translate into an open 400m time faster than 48.36. I thought "higher quality time" was referring to Uibo's 48.36 as a higher quality performance in an absolute sense. In other words, it was a claim that the women's 400mH WR is still soft. My mistake.
She was, until her jaw massively widened (very suspiciously) around the age of 20! Bobby may be up to his old tricks, but he's just much better at hiding it now..
I used to be a fan of hers but, like Felix, her face is like a commercial for HGH.
I noticed yesterday that Felix's gums look dead from about halfway down her jaw to as far as you could see, which in the film was a very long way, I have one spot like that near my first and only crown about from about 3 decades ago. Just that all this talk made me wonder,
That's not the differential we're talking about. What we're talking about is the differential between what Sydney can run in the flat 400 vs the 400h.
Her 50.68 in the 400h means that she can run the flat 400 in around 49.0, which is very good, but not nearly as good as Miller-Uibo's 48.36.
I don't doubt that Syd's differential has improved since her last year (2018) of competing both, but from 2.7 to 1.6? Not buying it. Two seconds, MAX. And back to 2.5-2.7 if she focuses on the 400.
That's not the differential we're talking about. What we're talking about is the differential between what Sydney can run in the flat 400 vs the 400h.
Her 50.68 in the 400h means that she can run the flat 400 in around 49.0, which is very good, but not nearly as good as Miller-Uibo's 48.36.
I don't doubt that Syd's differential has improved since her last year (2018) of competing both, but from 2.7 to 1.6? Not buying it. Two seconds, MAX. And back to 2.5-2.7 if she focuses on the 400.
It's obvious that you don't fully understand the math of what you wrote regarding differentials. (I know you think you understand, but you actually don't.)
If Sydney now has a 2 second differential between her 400 and 400h, then that means she is in 48.68 shape today. (50.68 - 2.00 = 48.68). That's not the case. You will see what I mean when Sydney runs a flat 400 sometime in the next few weeks. She won't be running 48.68 or faster.
And a 2.5 to 2.7 differential would mean she would run a 400 in the 48.18 to 47.98 range. That's unlikely to ever happen. But even if it did at some point in the future, all that means is that Sydney could run a 400h much faster than her current 50.68, which would then reduce the differential back to around 1.7.
Once Sydney learned how to hurdle really well leading with either leg, got her steps right, and started taking 14 steps between hurdles up to hurdle seven, that 2.7 second differential of hers went out the window permanently.