Seb Coe: We are powerless to scrap records set by 1980s dopers

Seems a bit weird. How can they be sued for no longer recognising a record?

I worry more about the future implications. If an athlete can beat testing today, their record is good to go forever.

All records will fall, the dopers edge is not infinite.

We have better shoes, better training plans, better nutrition.

That's lame. Real world records should start in around 2005 when they starting their current biological passport system.

He could always have co-world record record holders. A pre passport (pre 2005) record holder and a passport (post 2005) record holder.

Change all the events to a tiny degree and start the records over. I am in the camp that says they are all doping now too though, most of them.

Marita Koch is welcoming the sayings of Lord Coe.

Track records yes. Field records no.

and better drugs......

That's nonsense. They set their own rules and can change them. My view is that some powerful European nations, including Germany and, when they were still eligible to compete, Russia and Eastern European countries, have stopped them from striking down the proven doped records of the 1980s and early 1990s.

Lord Coe is welcoming it for himself too. In the all-time lists of all track events, athletes from the 80s are:

1) on place 1: Griffith-Joiner + Koch + Kratochvilova

2) on place 2: Kratochvilova + Ozilarenko + Donkova

3) on place 3: Reynolds + Coe + Zagorcheva

That's not a very big group...

Can't you copy and paste it? It's behind a paywall for most.

Coe allowed cheater shoes largely to scrub the old dirty WRs away. Do you think he cares more about having the 3rd fastest time than the finances of the organisation he runs?

No need to scrap them. They’re being broken by 2022’s dopers.

Why is one of the most suspect 80's record holders saying this and being taken seriously?

You're either ROFL or delusional, no middle ground here. Okay let's hear the clean-Coe arguments, I'm in the mood for a laugh

The arguments for clean coal are environmental in nature.

Can someone cut paste the text of the article?

Yeah the thread title is like a headline from the Onion. Who the hell does Seb think he is kidding?

Hahaha, yes. This one here was also priceless, when they were debating whether or not to remove the old dirty records:

theguardian.com

Paula Radcliffe and Jonathan Edwards to lose world records after rules tweak

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/seaningle

Paula Radcliffe and Jonathan Edwards are set to be stripped of their world and European records under new rules relating to testing

Link:www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/may/01/...

bbc.com

Athletics world records 'to be rewritten'

Most of athletics world records could be rewritten under a "revolutionary" new proposal from European Athletics.

Link:www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/39774233

This is what he said in 1998:

Britain's Sebastian Coe, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1,500 meters and former world record-holder in the 800, also said it was unfair to conclude that Griffith Joyner used drugs.
"I set a world record that lasted 18 years," Coe said. "People do make progress at rates that raise eyebrows. It would be wrong to suggest because an athlete makes a startling breakthrough in a performance, they're cheating."
"It's always a balance of judgment and I'm wary of knee jerk reactions," Coe said. "The final arbiter has to be a positive test."

Source:

cbsnews.com

'Flo Jo' Passed All Drug Tests

Link:www.cbsnews.com/news/flo-jo-passed-all...