shorter than frank wrote:
and obviously, the current wr of 3:50 was the result of drugs; but other than that, i don't see something that's out of the ordinary. what's the big deal?
You may be right but anytime someone finish a race in one of the fastest (or fastest) times in history and are not even breathing I always wonder how. I trained at a pretty high level and none of my peers were ever able to finish like that. In fact we couldn't fish within 3% of our best marks looking like that.
I mean this is 10 steps after the line and the same way she looked as she crossed it:
http://www.iaaf.org/news/photo/index.html#51861Honestly here, the majority of this list is suspect to me given the chinese and the number of postive tests out of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. And yes Slaney had a positive result. But even Slaney never looked easy coming across the line.
1500 Metres All Time
3:50.46 Yunxia Qu (CHN) - Beijing, 11/09/1993
Updated as at:02/06/2009 Mark Athlete Nation DOB Pos Venue Date
3:50.46 Yunxia Qu CHN 25/12/1972 1 Beijing 11/09/1993
3:50.98 Bo Jiang CHN 13/03/1977 1 Shanghai 18/10/1997
3:51.34 Yinglai Lang CHN 22/08/1979 2 Shanghai 18/10/1997
3:51.92 Junxia Wang CHN 09/01/1973 2 Beijing 11/09/1993
3:52.47 Tatyana Kazankina URS 17/12/1951 1 Zürich 13/08/1980
3:53.91 Lili Yin CHN 11/11/1979 3 Shanghai 18/10/1997
3:53.96 Paula Ivan ROU 20/07/1963 1 Seoul 01/10/1988
3:53.97 Lixin Lan CHN 14/02/1979 4 Shanghai 18/10/1997
3:54.23 Olga Dvirna URS 11/02/1953 1 Kyiv 27/07/1982
3:54.52 Ling Zhang CHN 13/04/1981 5 Shanghai 18/10/1997
3:55.0 Tatyana Kazankina 1 Moskva 06/07/1980
3:55.01 Lixin Lan 1h2 Shanghai 17/10/1997
3:55.07 Yanmei Dong CHN 16/02/1977 6 Shanghai 18/10/1997
3:55.30 Hassiba Boulmerka ALG 10/07/1968 1 Barcelona 08/08/1992
3:55.33 Süreyya Ayhan TUR 06/09/1978 1 Bruxelles 05/09/2003
3:55.38 Yunxia Qu 2h2 Shanghai 17/10/1997
3:55.47 Ling Zhang 3h2 Shanghai 17/10/1997
3:55.60 Süreyya Ayhan 1 Zürich 15/08/2003
3:55.68 Yuliya Fomenko RUS 30/08/1979 1 Paris Saint-Denis 08/07/2006
3:55.82 Yanmei Dong 4h2 Shanghai 17/10/1997
3:56.0 Tatyana Kazankina 1 Podolsk 28/06/1976
3:56.14 Zamira Zaitseva URS 16/02/1953 2 Kyiv 27/07/1982
3:56.18 Maryam Yusuf Jamal BRN 16/09/1984 1 Rieti 27/08/2006
3:56.22 Paula Ivan 1 Zürich 17/08/1988
3:56.31 Dong Liu CHN 24/12/1973 5h2 Shanghai 17/10/1997
3:56.43 Yelena Soboleva RUS 03/08/1982 2 Paris Saint-Denis 08/07/2006
3:56.50 Tatyana Pozdnyakova URS 04/03/1956 3 Kyiv 27/07/1982
3:56.56 Tatyana Kazankina 1 Moskva 01/08/1980
3:56.59 Yelena Soboleva 1 Moskva 10/07/2008
3:56.63 Nadezhda Ralldugina URS 15/11/1957 1 Praha 18/08/1984
3:56.65 Yekaterina Podkopayeva URS 11/06/1952 1 Rieti 02/09/1984
3:56.7 Lyubov Smolka URS 29/11/1952 2 Moskva 06/07/1980
3:56.7 Doina Melinte ROU 27/12/1956 1 Bucuresti 12/07/1986
3:56.74 Yelena Soboleva 1 Athína (Olympic Stadium) 03/07/2006
3:56.77 Svetlana Masterkova RUS 17/01/1968 1 + Zürich 14/08/1996
3:56.79 Maryam Yusuf Jamal 1 Rieti 28/08/2005
3:56.8 Nadezhda Olizarenko URS 28/11/1953 3 Moskva 06/07/1980
3:56.9 Zamira Zaitseva 4 Moskva 06/07/1980
3:56.91 Lyudmila Rogachova EUN 30/10/1966 2 Barcelona 08/08/1992
3:56.91 Tatyana Tomashova RUS 01/07/1975 1 Göteborg 13/08/2006
3:56.97 Gabriela Szabo ROU 14/11/1975 1 Monaco 08/08/1998
3:57.03 Jing Liu CHN 01/02/1971 6h2 Shanghai 17/10/1997
3:57.05 Svetlana Guskova URS 19/08/1957 4 Kyiv 27/07/1982
3:57.08 Yunxia Qu 3 Barcelona 08/08/1992
3:57.11 Svetlana Masterkova 2 Monaco 08/08/1998
3:57.12 Mary Slaney USA 04/08/1958 1 Stockholm 26/07/1983
3:57.15 Yinglai Lang 1h1 Shanghai 17/10/1997
I know it's a grey area but with the Chinese and the Russians the red flags are everywhere, and then you have Jamal who can run right in all those marks, looking like it takes NOTHING out of her and happens to represent the same country that Ramzi does, ohh, and she PR'd by 11 seconds from 4:07 - 3:56 in one year. I think it's fair to be a little suspicious.