Koch, as a 47.60 open 400m runner, obviously had the potential to run better than 47.7 on a relay. An amazing run from Felix, that can raise the question of PEDs, but I'm also not sure comparing relay splits is the best comparison. Felix's open race performances are amazing, but nothing like Koch or Kratchilova.
How dare you suggest that? She is from the US!!!! Only those that do amazing things and are foreigners are on drugs like Dibaba and Usain Bolt....Allyson Felix and Ashton Eaton are clean, clean, clean....Havent you seen their pretty smiles, their humble attitudes, and their all American personalities???? How could they ever!!!
She has been running really fast for a long time and has never had any sudden off-the-chart performances. She ran 22.11 at age 18 and her 400 times have slowly come down over a 10 year period. I member when she was running 50x 400s, then 49s several years latter. There is really nothing in her performances which suggest doping. Alyson's claim to fame isn't incredible times, but doing consistently well at global championships. Btw, if she was doping, the biggest improvement come in the 100 and it hasn't.
in training, even something common OTC like Hydroxycut or even Redline (in formerly ephedra and now evodiamine) or even the old Nitro2go pills (based in Ephedra) are banned by WADA and USADA so technically, while legal to buy in the USA, I would still be not clean having used Nitro2go and Redline in the past. Many of the legal supplements sold at GNC or other nutrition retailers may be letter of the law legal but not sport legal.
As a result, to call an athlete clean would mean they have tried NO supplement that is sport illegal.
I've never tried a steroid, a testosterone enhancement, epo or anything that Balco would vend.
I pride myself in my participation in clean athletics.
But if my use of redline and or nitro2go ephedra based pills in the past meant i wasn't clean, then neither is Allyson because nobody gets those times taking nothing. It can be legal but it's still something.
The minute one person ingests one diet pill that contains one cc of a banned substance, though legal,they are no longer clean as i used myself as an example. Refute my argument with facts.