By the end of humanity, we will have eliminated all PED assisted performances from the books and the WR will be somewhere around 3:49.
By the end of humanity, we will have eliminated all PED assisted performances from the books and the WR will be somewhere around 3:49.
You can't ignore doped times up until now. The dope artificially enhances the individual taking it, but also proves that the human body has the capacity to move itself at given speed over a given distance. It demonstrates at the very least a physical possibility for a body.
Doped times are indicative of potential times when a more gifted clean runner shows up. Given exploding populations of people with time on their hands, the likelihood of extremely gifted runners continues to climb.
Lenny Leonard wrote:
It took a guy like Bolt for us to realize that an ideal sprinter is 6'5".
Until someone comes along and makes us realize the ideal sprinter is 7'5".