Every women's middle and distance world record should be
lower than it currently stands. In 1991 the Chinese women
toyed with the women distance barriers at their leisure.
The times the Chinese women posted and how they posted the
times where indictative of running under their capabilities. The onslaught of multi world class runners
should have signified great things to come; however, those great expectations slowy evaporated after 1991. In showing their great range in a short timespan the Chinese showed
that no other country were their equal; however, the
validity of those times are suspect. The closing stages of
most of those runs were ABSOLUTELY MINDBOGGLING; therefore,
with great pacing those runs could have been much faster.
In 2002 X. Sun boldly state she could have broken the
once thought untouchable 10000m women's world record.
The puzzling aspect of the Chinese women is how so many
could become SUPER ELITE runners and disappear so quickly.
Wang Junxia displayed sub 3:55 1500m, 8:06 3000m, 29:31
10000m ability in a 8 day span, which indicate she could
have run MUCH faster if she desired. Why the sudden disappearance of Chinese women and why only GREAT, GREAT
times on Asian or Chinese soild?
Vipam