darkness wrote:
Wanjiru ... nice post. It expresses what I feel nearly every time I log onto letsrun.
As long as there are not a bunch of Anglos running 12:45-13:00 and 26:40-27:10 and similar times in the 1500/Steeple/3k then the people we sent to the Games are doing just fine.
I actually had a conversation years ago with a track nut around when Ritz ran 13:27 as a freshman. He said that he could see him in 5 years doubling that and running 12:50 and 26:50.
I told him that we had seen two Africans at the highest levels (Saidi-Seif and Mourhit) run 12:50 and 12:49 only to find out that they were doping and I said I would hope that Dathan never runs that fast because I couldn't see how someone with his talent level could run that fast without being heavy into doping.
I agree fully. With Rosa, Hermens, Kostre and others "directing" the Africans, there is obviously a lot of cheating - meaning drugs - pumping through the veins of some of these "genetic specimens". As long as officials feel they have to back off from popping these people on drug tests, letting them go because of political correctness, you are going to see a lot more shenanigans, like well past their prime guys who struggled to break 13 in their mid 20's finishing a 10k with a sub 13 5k.