You want proof that drug testing is working?
Running needs to stop this crusade and allow guys to dope without so many microscopes.
Want popularity? Let runners dope as much as the athletes in the big sports. People want to see 12:50 races and 9.7s and 9.6s 100ms. We want 19.7/.8 200ms. The way things are going now, the popularity of the sport is only going backwards...
rather clean than popular. Hey, leave us geeks alone!
the sport needs a new undetectable superped
a epo for the 21st century
we had 12 great years with the magic of epo
agreed. the epo era was incredible. the way the stadiums used to fill for golden league events was awesome. guerrouj coasting home in sub 3:30 efforts with 51-52 second last quarters. a slew of guys running sub 27, 12:50s. 3ks consistently sub 7:30. back then when there were rabbits, the guys actually went with them. it was a performance, an entertainment. that's what t&f needs, to be entertainment. thats what all major sports are essentially. ppl want to see guys that can time and time again toe that starting line and run inhumanly quick, just as ppl want to see consistent speed, power and production thru 162 games, or guys ravaging their bodies for 16 games, or hitting the hard court every other night for 82 games
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agreed. the epo era was incredible. the way the stadiums used to fill for golden league events was awesome. guerrouj coasting home in sub 3:30 efforts with 51-52 second last quarters. a slew of guys running sub 27, 12:50s. 3ks consistently sub 7:30. back then when there were rabbits, the guys actually went with them. it was a performance, an entertainment. that's what t&f needs, to be entertainment. thats what all major sports are essentially. ppl want to see guys that can time and time again toe that starting line and run inhumanly quick, just as ppl want to see consistent speed, power and production thru 162 games, or guys ravaging their bodies for 16 games, or hitting the hard court every other night for 82 games
Are you forgetting the men's 1500m in Doha this year? Or the ten men under 2:06 so far this year? Or the 21 men under 60 minutes for the half marathon so far this year?
You can't look at one evening of results from Scotland and claim anything about anything other than that one night of results.
The problem is that improvement can't continue forever, even with doping.
Who, exactly, would be sprinting 9.58 in still conditions?
Gay, Gatlin, Powell, Blake, Mullings, Montgomery, Johnson, Greene were all using, and none of them could touch 9.58
Who then? Nobody now, or in the foreseeable future.
That's the problem. So guys are going 9.9 this year to win...who would care if they were going 9.7, if there's a 9.58 out there? The never-ending quest for sensational new records would end at some point.
That point is now, with 9.58, 19.19, 43.18, 10.49, 21.34, 47.60, etc.
This reset is as good as any. In a few years those marks will be distant history and won't be used as current yardsticks. For instance, are any W400 performances actually compared to 47.60 these days? No. Ditto all the other marks.
It's time to clean things up and let those marks fade into history, to make a 9.8 sensational, and rare, again.
Keep in mind that Gatlin has run 9.80 and Thompson has 9.82 this year. It's only Jamaica being affected. But you might not see 9.6s for quite a while.
Kill yourself