Absolutely outrageous.
Absolutely outrageous.
top 3 all under 44. top 3 all dopers!!!
Crazy that Merritt, one of the greatest 400 runners ever, PR'd by .09 and still only finished 2nd (and it wasn't that close).
south african had too much adrenaline injection before race, heart palpatations, carted off track on stretcher.
The gold medalist, Wayde van Niekerk just got wheeled off on a stretcher...
Boy that must have been one heck of a 400.
Anyone know if Van Niekert is okay?
at this rate winner will run 41.xx in Rio and their heart will explode
hahahaha dirty cheat wrote:
south african had too much adrenaline injection before race, heart palpatations, carted off track on stretcher.
You know they test for that, you dumb twat.
Fried Rice wrote:
hahahaha dirty cheat wrote:south african had too much adrenaline injection before race, heart palpatations, carted off track on stretcher.
You know they test for that, you dumb twat.
Yeah you're right, no doper in history has ever passed a drugs test.
No person has ever collapsed after a hard race.
He should have been windmilling like Dibaba.
Assuming this is a joke. Sub 44 is not surprising. People have been running around 43 high 44 low for nearly 50 years. We know Merrit was on drugs but doesnt mean this time is suspicious.
A forth guy ran sub 44 in the rounds - the Saudi Arabian I think.
Only 1 of the 5 that broke 44 at Worlds was an American. The times they are a-changin'.
My thought after watching the heats was not about drugs, but about the track being at least .5 seconds faster than usual. Way too many guys ran sub 45 in the heats for all of them to be on drugs, and that is the lazy way out.
The guy who won has run sub 20. No reason to believe that he can't run 43.4
and a Kenyan won the 400h! soon other countries will soon be challenging the USA/Jamaican sprint dominance.
another canuck wrote:
My thought after watching the heats was not about drugs, but about the track being at least .5 seconds faster than usual. Way too many guys ran sub 45 in the heats for all of them to be on drugs, and that is the lazy way out.
The guy who won has run sub 20. No reason to believe that he can't run 43.4
a track cannot be 0.5 seconds faster than all other high level stadium tracks. any single track could be a lot slower than other high level tracks, but no track could be that much faster.
and since when does 19.9x (van nierkerk's 200m PR) point to 43.4? 20.00 is probably equal to about 44.25-44.40 IMHO, and you can have a tailwind in the 200m that helps you by tenths of a second.
Also, at least one more guy has done it this year so that makes five - possibly a record.
Personally I think Michael Johnson's 43:18 is one of the weaker records, Usain Bolt would already have gone 42:xx if he'd gone up in distance after London.
Also, don't be surprised if Team USA puts both Gatlin and Gay on the long relay team...
Peter Andersson wrote:
Personally I think Michael Johnson's 43:18 is one of the weaker records, Usain Bolt would already have gone 42:xx if he'd gone up in distance after London.
Also, don't be surprised if Team USA puts both Gatlin and Gay on the long relay team...
you're delusional
Is 43.47 really all that surprising? I recall in high school that we had a couple 400m guys at our below-average school routinely running 49s off of little more than pure talent and they'd get routinely beaten by a dude at our rival school that ran in the 48s. None of these kids were training that hard. If HS kids can run 48.xx on almost pure talent alone, I don't think that 43.47 many years after Johnson ran 43.18 is all that incredible. I do agree that Johnson's record is one of the weaker ones. His 200 was considered untouchable, and multiple guys have beaten it now, with Bolt's 19.19 going into a 0.3 headwind (Johnson with a 0.4 tailwind). The 400 is probably weakest because 200/400 guys end up in the 200 and 400/800 guys end up in the 800. If someone of Bolt quality ran the 400, or if Jeremy Wariner had even lived up to his potential, the WR would be 42.x. With a Bolt-esque talent, it could be well into the 42.x.
The biggest red flag performance has to be Dibaba closing that 1500 in 1:56.9. With that happening, I don't know why anyone is bothering to bring up any other performance as suspicious.
Most potential sub 44 Americans are siphoned off into pro $ports early on-