3,000-meter gold medalist Romanova dies at 43

first drug post!

quickening wrote:

first drug post!

Damn straight!

sad.

great runner. thanks for the notice.

old news...btw, it was a motor vehicle accident

I thought the accident one was Cioncon from the weekend, this one is different.

There are just too many of these gals dropping dead around age 40 for this to be mere coincidence. Flo-Jo, Kim Gallagher, and now this chick. You gotta wonder if it's somehow drug related.

seit wrote:

You gotta wonder if it's somehow drug related.

I don't know for sure, but I'm definitely not wondering.....

Could be suspicious. Of course, if she were African, it would be chalked up to a 'brain' tumor or one of the other excuses they use for runners dropping dead in their 40's. Cheats are all over.

She was definitely from the dirty era. Expect to see more and more drop in their forties.

i remember her best in 1991, she was one of the leanest runners i have ever seen anyway but in Tokyo she was particularly so. it was the time women distance runners were beginning to run in one-piece uniforms and looking at her then she must have had one of the lowest body-fat ratios ever.

There were extraordinary stories about her mileage at the time, and when you consider the fates of several of her contemporaries from that era [Dorovskikh, Artyomova and others] then you must wonder. Yvonne Murray ran away from her only a year before at the 1990 europeans in Split but by Tokyo no-one lived with the Russians

Say what you will about whatever sins she may have committed, it's always sad when a 40 year old ides, and leaves a family behind.

Pushing up daisies wrote:

Could be suspicious. Of course, if she were African, it would be chalked up to a 'brain' tumor or one of the other excuses they use for runners dropping dead in their 40's. Cheats are all over.

While I also thought it sounded like the classic drug use early death, I came across this this morning:

People die for all sorts of reasons, whether they're African, European, whatever. A natural death can happen at any time.

do you think performance enhancing drugs caused the car crash? maybe she was so strong she was able to step on the accelerator too much, eh?

How come suggesting Bekele's fiance's death was drug related is greeted with such a huge uproar?

they should have kids first though.

nothing wrong with a woman dying at 40. if thats her choice. as long as she pops a few out. besides the husband can get a younger wife.

Mr. Journey...

Are you drunk or just a complete moron?

you are a f***ing retard.

kim g. died from stomach cancer after suffering for a really long time. get your facts straight before you say shit like that, unless you want to tell me that riods induces stomach cancer now?

Yes - I'm for clean sports but when you get guys showing no compassion for people's death, you do realize - it is lunacy that we are operating under!

A short life for a spirited competitor. Over turf or track Yelena always had a smile and a hug for her friends no matter what country they hailed from.