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Heytherede wrote:Delilah is a drug cheat?
Let me see, went from career also-ran to world team member this season, dropped a huge chunk of time off all her PR's.
Oh I forgot, dramatic improvement is only valid at accusing sprinters and anybody who is not an English-speaking white.
We are the first to admit that we believe anyone who pulls out of Daegu should be seriously examined. That doesn't mean everyone who pulls out of Daegu is a drug cheat.
Delilah should be examined as they all should but what you have written is simply not true. Your lack of information needs to be correct.
Delilah hasn't dropped a huge chunk of time off her PBs this year. She's PRd in zero events this year except for the steeple where she has a very modest pb:
2008 9:41.68
2009 9:48.36
2010 9:59.18
2011 9:40.63
Considering she has 9:02 flat 3000 pb, 9:40 seems about right. Delilah, in many ways, is pretty much the same runner she was in 2008.
She made world's really because the event is very weak in the US right now. If Barringer or Pierce are in the race or if Garcia doesn't wipe out, she wouldn't have made the team. She made the team by running 9:46 at USAs. That would have made the Olympic team in 2008 if Barringer and Pierce weren't in there as well.
If I were here, I might try to run world's on a stress fracture as the odds of her making it in 2012 aren't great if Barringer or Pierce come back to the event. But then again, if you are an athlete and thinking that realistically, then you probably shouldn't be in the sport as you don't believe in yourself.
Delilah making the team this year is a great story. It's just sad that you are casting drug accusations at her with false information. Her performances really aren't a whole lot better. The results are and America is a very much results only culture.