Let's make a WILD assumption (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) that Florence Griffith-Joyner was on something when she set those unreal times in the 100 meters.
Now that Marion Jones has admitted using PEDs, what do you consider to be the real women's 100 meter world record?
Christine Arron's 10.73 in 1998 (currently #12)?
Merlene Ottey's 10.74 in 1996 (#13)?
Evelyn Ashford's 1075 in 1984 (#16)?
If you believe Jones' story,she ran faster times before the PED's. Are you throwing out her whole career or just when she admits to taking PED's?
I guess you could just eliminate the whole career of a cheater.
This must be great vindication for the clean athletes, but imagine how thay feel knowing years later that they lost to a cheater. Frustrating.
Tears with an admission of guilt are fine, but unless she could turn back the clock and give back what she stole they are useless.
Arron's time is the record. The other two were aslso clean. However, any time run behind a cheater's time must be discounted as well. Lord knows the cheater might have dragged the 2nd place runner toa faster time. How about that for a wrinkle, maybe rewriting the record books isn't as easy as it looks?
If you go that route, you probably have to discount all the times from every race after said cheater's career started. People probably started training harder to try to beat her too.
In the 90's someone said we should just start over with records. Start from scratch at the beginning of a season. Not fair to the clean runners from the past and very radical, but maybe it's a viable solution.