EL G 3:26

Full throttle EPO for 10 straight years, with added roids and hgh, has got to be worth 6 seconds at least.

nearer 10-12 seconds actually.the gains made using cocktails are massive.

Do you know the reason for the rules changes that have allowed "Cheater shoes, fake lights and trampoline tracks"?

World Athletics doesn't want to tackle the 1980's era of rampant steroid use, or the 1990's and early 2000's era of rampant EPO use, and try to retroactively void all those records.

So World Athletics came up with rules changes to try to get current generation of athletes fast enough to be able to break those old drugged records.

So far the new shoes, tracks, and lights haven't helped enough. So even bouncier shoes and tracks will be allowed going forward. Maybe eventually they will be advanced enough to enable athletes to break the drugged records.

Really. The time I did that I fell over on the track.

Just think how impressive is 3:26.00

1:49.8 first 800m then 96.2 final 700m.

I’ve never understood this argument because it requires you to believe that current athletes are mostly clean.

A lot are but the drugs aren't as effective (surprisingly).

So a clean 3:32 guy would run 3:20 on it?

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Don't you mean that you do understand it, but you disagree with its premise?

Yeah. But Jeff Tallon thinks everybody is on cocktails anyway, so in his view, nobody has run faster than 3:50 clean. (side note : Jeff Tallon's 1500m pb was 3:50).