For once I have to agree. As talented as the E. Africans are (and the drug revelations are showing they aren't as talented as everyone has been led to believe) the fact is that the E. Africans were filthy, disgusting cheats with easily 90% of their entries being well past the age for Youth Championships, and the same goes for the Junior Champs. And many other winners were merely those who matured earlier than their competitors.
LetsRun.com wrote:
We just read that the championships were cancelled in Rio starting after the 2017 Wold Youths in Kenya.
We always felt the money they spent on the event was a total waste.
The champs were really about who had hit puberty the earliest of doctored their birth certificates the most.
http://trackalerts.com/Article...act/22487?
Hopefully their next move is to ditch the worthless road race championships and world cross. Those events have no meaning.
C'mon now wrote:
Fantastic! One less track meet to follow. We must all be happy!
Pretty sure that was at a world juniors.
stater of the obvious wrote:
but with the youth world champs this moment in time never would have happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdexkdpkIgk
The champs weren't just about that. There was also a question of who at 15-16 was already training like an adult.
LetsRun.com wrote:
We just read that the championships were cancelled in Rio starting after the 2017 Wold Youths in Kenya.
We always felt the money they spent on the event was a total waste.
The champs were really about who had hit puberty the earliest of doctored their birth certificates the most.
http://trackalerts.com/Article...act/22487?
The Australian standards for the mid and long distance were ridiculously faster than the IAAF standards. All it did was foster overtraining to get them, and some nasty bickering between the two leading 1500m guys.
Karma Police wrote:
The champs weren't just about that. There was also a question of who at 15-16 was already training like an adult.
Euros have just started a European Youth champs. For those of the right age and training age appropriately, the meet could be a springboard to bigger things. Trouble is, there might not be many of them.
I'm not from the US and around here, the standards are tough to qualify - because our national body has found that being good at youth level does not give you a higher chance of going on with it.
LetsRun.com wrote:
We just read that the championships were cancelled in Rio starting after the 2017 Wold Youths in Kenya.
We always felt the money they spent on the event was a total waste.
The champs were really about who had hit puberty the earliest of doctored their birth certificates the most.
http://trackalerts.com/Article...act/22487?
The Brojos have no shame.
LetsRun.com wrote:
The champs were really about who had hit puberty the earliest of doctored their birth certificates the most.
Great news. Get rid of world Juniors next please IAAF. Then when you have sort outed the age cheat problem please can you get rid of the women's category to stop the sex cheats like Semanya taking advantage. And finally to solve the drug cheat problem please can you get rid of any IAAF competition or championship! The world will then be a better place.
C'mon now wrote:
Fantastic! One less track meet to follow. We must all be happy!
He ran 20.13 as U-18, and months later, he signed with Puma.
kitty bar the door wrote:
I think winning at the Youth level can be more a curse than a blessing, and confers pubertal advantages that really shouldn't be recognized. While Bolt won as a Youth (2003 Sherbrooke), was it really necessary for his long-term development?