I think we can all agree that the women's 400 and 800m records are tainted. Heck, the vast majority of the top 20 times in both are tainted. My question is - why just those? Did the Soviet bloc nations not work as hard on other events or did the doping techniques they used not work as well?
How about 100 and 200?
trollism wrote:
How about 100 and 200?
What about them? I don't see these events dominated by athletes from 20 years ago (yeah, Marita Koch appears on the 200, but that's about it). I'm not implying that the current records are clean, but why do Soviet era women dominate the 400 and 800 records even today but not other distances?
Does the name Flo-Jo ring any bells?