damn sin wrote:
wow lots of anal oldies commenting on here.
Announcing your own arrival?
IF A WOMAN RAN A MARATHON IN 2 hrs, 15 MIN...SHE RAN IT IN 2:15. IT DOESN't MATTER HOW!!!
Sure, load her up with EPO, too, and run it on a course that gradually drops 1000 feet from start to finish. Hey, let's have guys paced by cyclists, too. Anything goes, it's a big circus of bullshit.
DontFeedTheTroll wrote:
You *don't* erase the record if the runner performed legally at the time but in a way that is a violation of the rules now. Athletes can not be expected to perform according to the standards of the future.
Sure you can. And should. What's with the "not fair!" tantrums going on? It's only a record and why shouldn't the record book reflect a decent level of integrity?
I fail to see the big difference between a man or a woman setting the pace. The only difference I can think of is that more men are in the shape required to help a woman set a new record. No woman could have come close to running with Paula. If anything is unfair it's that Paula would have had to set a WR without a pacer when all the men are allowed to.
If a potential male world record holder or the agent of one is reading, listen up! Pay to have a woman pace your guy for like the first mile or two before he goes on to set the record. You'll get a firestorm of attention and womens rights people will love you. Paula, go pace Farah in a road 10k for a few yards and have some fun with the media attention it gets.
TheShane wrote:
so they changed the american record...is Paula's world record now invalid too?
Has USATF always distinguished between mixed and women's only reocrds, or is this new since the decision happened?
Shoebacca wrote:
I fail to see the big difference between a man or a woman setting the pace. The only difference I can think of is that more men are in the shape required to help a woman set a new record. No woman could have come close to running with Paula. If anything is unfair it's that Paula would have had to set a WR without a pacer when all the men are allowed to.
Any number of men can escort women from start to finish of a record attempt, as Radcliffe's posse did in '03 in London. Men being able to do that for each other is a whole lot rarer, I can think of only one instance in the past 2-3 decades. And in that instance, said pacer nearly upset the star (Tergat) making the record attempt. I've never seen any male brought right into the finish by 3+ pacers on a record attempt. Show me evidence that that's ever happened if you believe that what Radcliffe did was simply a "fair" version of what men do. Male pacers simply cannot take a women's record attempt for themselves, thus they are not a legit competitive challenge to women, ever. Radcliffe could surely have found several (Kenyan, Ethiopian) women to pay to pace her through 30K, just like the men do.
If a potential male world record holder or the agent of one is reading, listen up! Pay to have a woman pace your guy for like the first mile or two before he goes on to set the record. You'll get a firestorm of attention and womens rights people will love you. Paula, go pace Farah in a road 10k for a few yards and have some fun with the media attention it gets.
Put down the crackpipe, or at least get out of your own head a little. At least your little non sequitur is a little amusing.