From letsrun.com's summary of the Brussels meet:
"In the end, Simpson prevailed in fourth in 8:29.58 – the second fastest time ever run by an American, a mark only eclipsed by the drug cheat Mary Slaney’s American record of 8:25.83."
People can, of course, speculate about whether Mary Decker Slaney was engaged in doping at one or more points during her remarkable world-class running career, from her victories as a 14-year-old prodigy through her repeated comebacks from injury to win world championships and set a boatload of world and American records at a wide range of distances, but it's tiresome and a bit unfair for her to be constantly singled out and labeled by letsrun.com as "drug cheat Mary Slaney" based on a T/E ratio urine test conducted many years after her world-class career was over. I welcome candid discussions and criticisms of dopers and doping, but letsrun's highly selective and single-minded characterizations of Slaney, even going so far as to criticize a very young Mary Cain for her choice of an athletic hero, seem way over the top, and (in my view) detract from the level of objectivity to which it generally appears to aspire. In this regard, I note that, in the same article on the Brussels meet, letsrun.com repeatedly refers to Essa Barshim's ascension to second place on the all-time high jump list without ever referring to the world-record holder as "drug cheat Javier Sotomayor," who tested positive for both stimulants (cocaine) and anabolic steroids (nandrolone) during his career, and who avoided a lifetime ban only by announcing his retirement before the final sanction was issued.