Wang Junxia would have lapped Dibaba tonight

Wang Junxia may have also lapped Mo Farah, but who cares?

Canova says drugs don't help distance runners, so her times are legit

Edward Snowman wrote:

Canova says drugs don't help distance runners, so her times are legit

Why don't you actually quote what he has stated?

LM wrote:

I'm not sure if I would say that is totally impossible, but it certainly doesn't seem likely. It would also indicate that she could have gone significantly faster in a more sane race.

Isn't the record 3:50? I don't see what's so impossible about running 3:56 after starting way too fast. She clearly suffered for it. If she had gone out slower, then she surely would have run closer to 3:50 (a time that has been run). Also, sprinting at the beginning of a race is a lot less taxing than sprinting at the end of a race.

LM wrote:

The male equivalent of this would be roughly a guy opening his race in 37-38, then the next 1200m in 2:48 (3:29 1500m pace).

I don't know how accurate your male equivalent time is, but (assuming it's accurate) that seems like a performance that El G or Lagat could have done. A 3-4 second penalty for going out 2-4 seconds too fast.

ytvytv wrote:

LM wrote:

The male equivalent of this would be roughly a guy opening his race in 37-38, then the next 1200m in 2:48 (3:29 1500m pace).

I don't know how accurate your male equivalent time is, but (assuming it's accurate) that seems like a performance that El G or Lagat could have done. A 3-4 second penalty for going out 2-4 seconds too fast.

Ah, maybe I wasn't clear. The 42s start was IN the 3:50 race. In other words, ran 3:50 off of 42s first 300m.

In the male equivalent, its El G running 3:26, off of first 300 in 37-38.

For equivalent performances I just used 1200m times that would result in a WR, and then just assumed for 300m portion the mens pace was 800 WR pace - 1s per lap, so 49.5 400m pace for first 300m.

I would think if Hicham or Lagat or whomever could start the race in 37.5 and run 3:26, it would indicate they are capable of much faster.

LM wrote:

ytvytv wrote:

I don't know how accurate your male equivalent time is, but (assuming it's accurate) that seems like a performance that El G or Lagat could have done. A 3-4 second penalty for going out 2-4 seconds too fast.

Ah, maybe I wasn't clear. The 42s start was IN the 3:50 race. In other words, ran 3:50 off of 42s first 300m.

In the male equivalent, its El G running 3:26, off of first 300 in 37-38.

For equivalent performances I just used 1200m times that would result in a WR, and then just assumed for 300m portion the mens pace was 800 WR pace - 1s per lap, so 49.5 400m pace for first 300m.

I would think if Hicham or Lagat or whomever could start the race in 37.5 and run 3:26, it would indicate they are capable of much faster.

Oh Ok I thought you were talking about the 3:56 race. I'm not sure that comparing that 3:50 race to a 3:26 race is fair. Are 3:50 and 3:26 really equivalent performances?

ytvytv wrote:

LM wrote:

Ah, maybe I wasn't clear. The 42s start was IN the 3:50 race. In other words, ran 3:50 off of 42s first 300m.

In the male equivalent, its El G running 3:26, off of first 300 in 37-38.

For equivalent performances I just used 1200m times that would result in a WR, and then just assumed for 300m portion the mens pace was 800 WR pace - 1s per lap, so 49.5 400m pace for first 300m.

I would think if Hicham or Lagat or whomever could start the race in 37.5 and run 3:26, it would indicate they are capable of much faster.

Oh Ok I thought you were talking about the 3:56 race. I'm not sure that comparing that 3:50 race to a 3:26 race is fair. Are 3:50 and 3:26 really equivalent performances?

Yea, that get's nebulous. I just used both of those since they are the current world records. Same for the 300m paces, which I used as 800m WR pace - 1s per lap

Probably a better way to do it, but this gives some baseline. I guess it doesn't rule out the performance being legit, but it's impressive enough to make me wonder.

J.R. wrote:

No, she did not.

Wang Junxia is by far the greatest woman runner of all time.

You are not contributing anything to this site by trolling every day.

Three Things -

1) Damn, I miss the Chinese

2) What does all this say about Sonia O'Sullivan (clean athlete beating dopers??)

3) The Chinese have been pretty impressive the last few World Champs over the Marathon, if anyone has noticed, in the new era of testing -

2011 - 6th, 8th

2009 - 1st, 4th, 5th

2007 - 2nd, 4th

2005 - 5th

Check this video to see the running style of the Chinese, making the other top runners of the time look like hacks.

That is all talent and training, nothing to do with doping, and this can easily be seen by watching the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6UDXW8Uckg

Wang Junxia does have the best form of any female Asian runner I've seen.

She may have lapped Dibaba, but then Dibaba would have come back for the win. Especially if it was a...MARATHON ON THE TRACK

800 analyzer wrote:

How foolish does the IAAF look still touting those absurd Chinese times as legitimate WRs?

Sure others are likely dirty too, but those are, IMO, beyond Any possible doubt, filthy and illegitimate.

Embarrassing.

On what basis would the IAAF overturn those times?

Dibaba just ran 30:43.

In the 1993 World Championships (Wang's only global championship at 10,000m) Wang ran 30:49.

How do you figure that Dibaba would have been lapped by Wang?

Mr. Obvious wrote:

On what basis would the IAAF overturn those times?

When I created this thread I already knew which turn it would be taking.

My point is, there are many speculations about what's wrong with these records, short track, faked clock, moved starting line, drugs or even males competing as females. Yet we don't have any proof for it. Therefore it is rather arrogant of the British (BBC) to pronounce Dibaba the greatest female distance runner when she is over a minute slower than Wang.

Dibaba was as much slower than Wang as Farah was slower than Bekeles WR. Is Farah the greatest distance runner of all times? Would he have had a chance against Bekele in his prime? NO WAY.

it's pretty obvious Wang would have lapped Dibaba and then cracked her skull open and feasted on the goo that's found inside...

I think a clean women's WR would look like 3:56 or so, maybe a tad faster.

Sonia O'Sullivan has had an exceptional career and is definitely a world class athlete. Still holds a WR I think. Probably denied medals by doping athletes, similar to Kathy Cook (BBC had a piece on her today), who still holds loads of UK Women's sprint records. Her 400m time would have won Gold at London 2012. She wasn't even a full time athlete, and was running against doped to the gills by the federation East Germans. Definitely denied many Gold medals and a full time athletics career.

Why didn't Wang move to Marathon after she was done with the track?

Anyone with a logical mind can see the Chinese did in 93 and 97 games at home massive cycles, maybe EPO, maybe 'turtle soup', a natural form of the same effect. No testing at home I imagine (probably like Spain it was not illegal there).It seems they toned it down a bit for the OGs but coming off such big cycles still enough to win Gold. If they could have a team there to measure the track, why not a team there to administer a doping test to say the top 3? Although for that race you would need to try the whole field, haha.

* wrote:

In the 1993 World Championships (Wang's only global championship at 10,000m) Wang ran 30:49.

Alone. In the rain. With a 2:43 last km.