Issam Assinga 10.41(w) in 2022, 9.89 legal in 2023. Shame on us not to question

The rest of us questioned.

I immediately assumed he was doping once i saw the 9.89

I knew he was on drugs when he ran that super quick time.Teenagers cannot run 9.89 naturally.I dont even believe a clean fully adult man can run that fast,naturally.

There were probably threads questioning him, but were deleted by the mods for being discriminatory.

The one to which I contributed is still up.

This board is very low IQ when it comes to doping. No matter how unbelievable or suspect the performance, some yahoo on here will insist it is clean.

Carl Lewis ran 9.92 in Seoul. Wasn't he covered up by USADA at the time? And Asinga ran faster than that.

lewis had something like cough medicine ingredients covered up. i think it might even be the case that whatever he had in him wouldn't even be illegal today.

I agree even for teenager growth at that speed you don't just drop time like that, half a second is around a full 5 meter gap...

I personally believe that one day there will be a genetic freak raised in the right environment with a well to do upbringing with good modern nutrition, etc... who probably will run that fast, most top tier sprinters were teenage prodigies

Assinga's case is going to loom large over all high school athletes for awhile, truly a shame, though also someone needs to get to the bottom of how someone so young got access to such a compound, he definitely wasn't alone and it makes you wonder what kind of rabbit hole there might be with very unethical coaches at this level of the sport, not that I trust the authorities to actually get to the bottom of it

You are not thinking clearly

No meaningful competitions until this year and background in the 300/400

He isn't just faster this year, he is also maintaining speed better.

I believe 200/400 is his future and most progression beyond this point will be due to better conditioning not improvements in his top speed.

All the US <20 records from 1mi down are 3% slower than the open division world records.

Fresh out of Peter Bol’s testing mess up I’m surprised you’re so quick to judge. The AIU is going to be testing his B sample before the world champs next week before a final verdict is made.

It's a potent counter to those deniers here who insist drugs aren't performance enhancing, it's just a "placebo" effect.

One thing to consider is he was 16 and in the middle of puberty

I downvoted due to your use of "of" instead of "have." Take some pride in your grammar, please.

If you don’t think 9.89 is possible clean by an adult then you are very delusional and if you apply the same bar to every other event then I wonder why you’d be interested in the sport at all!

His first name is Arabic:

Issam = support/relief

Lol at believing that whole bol farce and thinking he’s clean. You lot are gullible.

What authorities? Doping agencies have no power when it comes to investigating these things, and GW1516 is not illegal in the criminal sense, since it's not approved for human consumption. I have a feeling Asinga's lawyers will magically turn up a contaminated supplement, and all will be "normal" again.

I agree. A female running 8:35 for a 3k who is also built like a sprinter should be very suspicious