• LRC historian
      • What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 12:19AM
      • LRC historian
      • Wilson Kipketer losing to doper Schumann and then doper Borzakovskiy, never getting the gold.
    • Jim and Frank
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 12:28AM - in reply to
      • Jim and Frank
      • Jim Ryun getting robbed in Munich.

        Shorter getting robbed in Montreal.
    • Noduce
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 12:34AM - in reply to Jim and Frank
      • Noduce
      • Ryun was not robbed. He took a risk running in the pack and has to accept that it was not the smartest tactic. He should have led, pushed the pace, stayed ahead, and avoided the hustling in the pack. His fault for lacking the courage to front run.
    • Track Town is Eugene
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 12:36AM - in reply to LRC historian
      • Track Town is Eugene
      • When Pre was cheated out of the 3rd Gold Medal at the Olympics.
    • EPOpians
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 12:37AM - in reply to LRC historian
      • EPOpians
      • Doping Morracans, especially El G.

        Doping Russians.

        Doping American Sprinters.
    • The Romny
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 3:10AM - in reply to EPOpians
      • The Romny
      • EPOpians wrote:
        Doping Morracans, especially El G.

        Doping Russians.

        Doping American Sprinters.
        Doping Americans in general.
    • I speak American
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 3:39AM - in reply to LRC historian
      • I speak American
      • Wasn't there a guy or two who made the Oly team in 68, I'm thinking 5 or 10k, but then they re-ran the distance events at altitude and they got bumped?
    • Bad Wigins
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 3:46AM - in reply to LRC historian
      • Bad Wigins
      • The officials cheating Francesco Panetta to WC silver in 1987 by messing with the lap counter.
    • Ackley
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 5:51AM - in reply to LRC historian
      • Ackley
      • The Kenyans/Ethiopians left off their Olympic Marathon teams.

        I specifically thinking of Kebede in 2012.
    • opinionated guy
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 7:35AM - in reply to LRC historian
      • opinionated guy
      • John Carlos & Tommie Smith having their medals taken away after the ceremony.
    • Wang
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 7:49AM - in reply to LRC historian
      • Wang
      • IAAF recognizing Chinese 1993 results as valid. Sure there are other frauds, but these fail the smell test so miserably that they should have been discounted right away and not legitimized by our "ruling body".
    • Haha, YO (super cereal)
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 8:19AM - in reply to Wang
      • Haha, YO (super cereal)
      • Webb never winning Oly gold in the 15.
    • Edward Teach
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 8:30AM - in reply to LRC historian
      • Edward Teach
      • Russia and Turkey being allowed to continue in international competition.
    • Cronje
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 8:48AM - in reply to Noduce
      • Cronje
      • Noduce wrote:
        Ryun was not robbed. He took a risk running in the pack and has to accept that it was not the smartest tactic. He should have led, pushed the pace, stayed ahead, and avoided the hustling in the pack. His fault for lacking the courage to front run.
        He's talking about Munich when he was fouled in the semi but not reinstated to the final
    • fisky
      • RE: What is the biggest injustice of track and field history? 1/24/2015 8:58AM - in reply to LRC historian
      • fisky
      • Ben Johnson winning the World Championships in 1987 and the 1988 Olympics was the biggest injustice in US sprinting history.

        Most posters on LetsRun weren't around in the 1980s, but that was back when sprinting was big in the USA... Carl Lewis, Calvin Smith, FloJo, Evelyn Ashford, Jackie Joyner-Kersee. School kids who weren't runners knew who these sprinters were.

        Carl Lewis spoke out against Johnson, without naming him by name, and caught a huge amount of flack for it. Ironically, Johnson's doping tarnished Lewis's image. He never recovered even after Johnson was outed.