18 year old Russian kid clocks stunning 1:18:50 in Russian 20 km walk championships. Monster!

Full results of these Russian championships in Cheboksary here:

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World Athletics

Link:worldathletics.org/competition/calenda...

Better bodies through chemistry!

TO. THE. GILLS. Also, probably very lax or non-existent judging. The kid may have lifted the whole way. It's Russia.

Why do you call everyone a monster

What is amazing about the Russians is how they do not even try to pretend that they aren't doping. I remember a Russian national 800m championship before the big doping bust where everyone was running world leads and massive PRs. If you are going to dope systematically, you at least need to send a memo out to keep the times from getting out of hand.

He cheated faster than the rest.

Why do all Russians look like they're developmentally disabled?

Why do most Americans look like they are chimps?

Looking at the total domination of race walking by Russian men and women and it's absurd. And Rekrunner claims that EPO doesn't work because Russians don't dominate the marathon? You may as well say EPO doesn't work because Ethiopians don't dominate race walking.

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20 Kilometres Race Walk - women - senior - outdoor

Link:www.worldathletics.org/records/all-tim...

This reminds me of the Soviet women's relay championships--gosh, maybe ~40 years ago?--wherein a 4x800 broke 8:00.

And placed third.

40 years ago? This is happening now with Ethiopia, Kenya and such. US is not far behind Russia. The sprint world is rife with dope. Looks so stupid to point fingers to one country. Do you think the world is that naive?

Russia has been combining blood doping and steroids for the last 4 decades.

Why would you attribute Russian race-walking success to EPO, without considering any other factors?

Why would you link EPO to Ethiopians? Because of their lifelong exposure to high altitude naturally stimulating EPO production? It's like continuous micro-dosing since birth, naturally.

Even when "EPO works", we know other things "work" too.

What is lacking is:

- an established correlation

- fast non-African (not just Russian) performance during the EPO-era

It's walking so who cares.

No video?