Wilson Kipsang Takes Marathon World Record In Berlin
September 29, 2013
Just curious:
I am not too familiar with the drug testing policies and procedures of the IAAF and other regulatory authorities in the sport. I know that they are pretty big sticklers about frequent testing at competitions representing one's country like the Olympics and Worlds, but how often/thorough is the testing of elites when they are running for professional teams and not under their nation's flag?
2:13:55 1964
2:02:55 2014 -projected
11 minutes in 50 years
2.15 miles behind a pace of 2:02:55
Projected 2064- 1:58:37 (4:31.4 p/m) 3.5% improvement
broken arrow wrote:
One thing that struck me was how composed he was after the effort, not at all looking like a Man that run ran a WR.
That totally beats me too. Eliud Kipchoge just stopped for a few seconds to congratulate him, and both of them were running again the next instant! It seems to happen all of the time, but I just can't believe it.
wncmtnrnr wrote:
Just curious:
I am not too familiar with the drug testing policies and procedures of the IAAF and other regulatory authorities in the sport. I know that they are pretty big sticklers about frequent testing at competitions representing one's country like the Olympics and Worlds, but how often/thorough is the testing of elites when they are running for professional teams and not under their nation's flag?
Any race that pays this sort of money
Any race that has even a slight interest in ratifying a new world record
Any and all IAAF label races
Will all have drug testing. Anyone near the level of Kipsang or Kipchoge will be i the testing pool, as well.