We at LRC believe drug cheats should have all of their previous marks struck from the record books. It might serve as a deterrent and why should the cheats get the benefit of the doubt?
However, that currently isn't how it is done. Yet in writing our women's mile recap from Brussels we had this sentence: Simpson’s 4:22.18 puts her at #5 behind Slaney, Rowbury, Regina Jacobs and Ruth Wysocki.
Slaney and Jacobs both got major drug bans. Should we at LRC strike them from our own internal record books? Just because WADA or the IAAF does something one way doesn't mean everyone else has to follow.