El G's level of dominance remains unsurpassed

bnbnm wrote:

But how many did El G have when he was Jakob's age?

get a life... wrote:

straightshooter wrote:

Of course many will claim he doped before EPO testing. Even so, he stands alone.

Umm, you'd have to be a drooling moron not to think that El G was a doper. As blatant as Marita Koch, Jarmila Kratochvílová and Waldemar Cierpinski.

ELBULL wrote:

get a life... wrote:

Umm, you'd have to be a drooling moron not to think that El G was a doper. As blatant as Marita Koch, Jarmila Kratochvílová and Waldemar Cierpinski.

^^100%

El G probably took more EPO than any elite athlete in history. As well as the hgh that was causing his jaw to explode out of his face in Sydney.

Not to mention that if EPO testing had been introduced 12 months earlier he would be remembered as the dominant doper who always choked at the Olympics.

Not hard to be dominant when even your teammates in major championships have been scientifically doped to the gills just to act as your pacers.

big daddy wrote:

https://imgur.com/VMFL4jY

Please find attached an extremely crappy graph I made showing all who have run sub-3:30 more than once. (There are 18 others who ran under 3:30 a single time, which I excluded only because it would have stretched the graph out way too far and cluttered up the names. Sidenote: Daniel Kipchirchir Komen is different than Daniel Komen, who only ran sub-3:30 once!)

It's fun to see a superstar wipe the floor with everyone like Jakob has been doing, but here is a great visual reminder of how far he (or anyone) has to go to surpass El Guerrouj. Jakob will need at least another 5 years at the top with multiple Olympic and WC wins, not to mention WRs, before the conversation will be worth having. As of now it's hard to say he has even completely surpassed Cheruiyot!

ELBULL wrote:

get a life... wrote:

Umm, you'd have to be a drooling moron not to think that El G was a doper. As blatant as Marita Koch, Jarmila Kratochvílová and Waldemar Cierpinski.

^^100%

El G probably took more EPO than any elite athlete in history. As well as the hgh that was causing his jaw to explode out of his face in Sydney.

Not to mention that if EPO testing had been introduced 12 months earlier he would be remembered as the dominant doper who always choked at the Olympics.

Not hard to be dominant when even your teammates in major championships have been scientifically doped to the gills just to act as your pacers.

John Wesley Harding wrote:

bnbnm wrote:

But how many did El G have when he was Jakob's age?

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