I am pretty sure that the US has a more competent Anti-doping agency than Jamaica. However, Mullings for example was caught, by the jamaican antidoping agency during the Jamaican champs despite that he lives and trains in the US and compete mostly in Europe. He only seems to come back in Jamaica to compete for his trials. This is surprising that he was never caught by the USADA or by any doping agency in Europe.
@Dre217is not an idiot
More interesting is when you look at the record books before the 1980s is white and black athletes had similar numbers on the clock and in the number of medals in international meets. However, the black athlete began to dominate after that time period? Why I wonder.... Could it be drug usage? Winning at all costs? Or now on drugs they are faster than whites on drugs. I don’t know the answers but something to ponder as we look back.
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If we look at the record book even since fully electronic timing (FAT) was implemented 1960 European sprinters haven't broken any World Record in the 100m unfortunately.
I have another theory, this is common knowledge that drug testing became much more stringent in 1980s and this is mainly because of that, that dopers began being caught (even tough quite a few managed to escape it). Anti drug policies were much more lenient before (when was blood doping outlawed ?) Pretty much every steroids that were available in 1980s were already available before and anabolic steroids were already used in the 1950s in weightlifting (testosterone).
"Benoid" Johnson's Stanozolol is a drug that was on the market for at least 25 yrs and I cannot believe that we had to wait 1988 to have the first publicized abuse of that PED.
I have read on some "weird" boards, some ridiculous drivel that "roids" were invented in the 1980. Out of competition were nowhere to be found before the 1980s . That gives the false impression that drugs era only began in 1980s, the level of testing was simply a joke.
Interestingly, this is then than East German an Soviet male sprinters (where came from the majority of European sprinters) became largely irrelevant despite the fact that they had pretty much every drugs at their disposal.I don’t know the answers but something to ponder as we look back.