Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone does it again - 47.78 as Paulino also breaks 48 (live reaction show 11:15 am ET)

Race of the century

Paulino is the ultimate competitor, she always knows how to peak for championships. 47.98 from Lane 9 in her last race of the season

Naser 48.19, her second best time ever.

Amazing race. Does that erase USA's poor outing in the distance events so far?

Can't be arguing a German is dirty and a Kersee trained athlete with all the rumours around him is somehow squeaky clean.

We either doubt all records or believe them all.

He's talking about Paulino!

Entire field under 50. First time ever?

F*ck the weather gods! On a dry track, that's a WR run

In shock at Paulino's run blind in lane 9, so impressive.

According to the Stasi archives, Koch took steroids - there's not much of a "doubt" about it. Her 47.60 does have a what if - what could she have run that day from a better lane than 2?

This isn't a question of "doubt." Koch doped. There is detailed documentary evidence from the GDR about her regimen, covering years.

Terrible result. Total piss take. Struggled to break 49 and comes out and runs 47.7? Puhlease. The actual audacity.

Anyone that thinks that was a clean win is off their rocker.

This is the first time I see Paulino running through the line.

Anything done by American is artificial.
See how I'm classy and not accuse of doping.
None will convince me she is an authentic.

To Flo-Jo, Marion Jones, Michael Johnson, .... league of US Bebe Eprouvettes.

Edit.
Added a downvote.

11.71/22.95/34.87/47.78

11.71/11.24/11.92/12.91

I feel like that 300m split might have been faster. Koch went 34.14 during her WR.

Paulino

11.92/23.09/34.97/47.98

11.92/11.17/11.88/13.01

Naser

11.84/23.13/35.00/48.19

11.84/11.29/11.87/13.19

There isn't a question of "doubt" about Kersee either. There is plenty of publicly available evidence available. There's no evidence against Sydney herself, but given who her coach is, trying to claim that this is the real world record is ridiculous.

In the distance events? I still have faith in Young, Fisher, and Hocker in the men's 5 and Andrews & Houlihan in the women's 5.

I am not counting Napolean's 9th place in the steeple as a poor outing. She's also only 20 and is the future of the event for women in the US.

According to athletes associated with Bobby Kersee, he's been in and around drugs his whole life and supposedly cant coach a non-drugged athlete.

See why we either doubt both or believe both?

When SML breaks the WR and it stands for the next 40 years, future generations will ask the same questions you're asking of Koch.

Through the rounds, I eyeballed 23.9, 23.2, and 22.9 at the 200 mark.

Everybody can assume some level of doping going on, but there's a difference between controlled doping that easily beats testing, and doping that turns a woman into a man with ZERO testing.

Sydney will win the hurdles and flat in 2028 and become the greatest track athlete of all time - male or female

I might buy your first sentence, but not the second one. Seems to me like there's plenty of room to think about this probabilistically, with some records having a bit more doubt than others.