Why did Peter Snell never break the 1500m world record?

Coevett wrote:

As far as I know, every middle-dostance Olympic finalist from 60, 64, and 68 are still alive.

John Davies and Josef Odložil have passed away.

Same as it ever was... wrote:

Coevett wrote:

No middle distance runner before the African EPO explosion is known to have used peds and nearly all lived into their. 80s or 90s.

Stupid post tough guy: "No" mid-d runner before the EPO explosion? Yeah, right...try Wenzel (Ephedrine) & Silai (roids) for starters. And there's the East German roid machine used by a lot of their runners, both male & female, which very few ever tested positive for. And considering how lame drug testing was back then Wenzel & Silai must have been glowing like a New England lighthouse on a foggy night to get popped.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Silai

Really? East Europeans were on roids? Are you being serious? Well you learn something new on this forum every day. I would never have suspected that.

What about Olef Beyer? Surely he was clean?

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

Archduke Charles wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64xx0qwYXNE

Elliott stating he would have demolished Snell if they ran in the 1500m in 1964.

I think he was joking but said it would have been quite a race.

Yes, click bait attempt lol.

Here is the full video -

Features Roger Moens, George Kerr, Arthur Lydiard, Murray Halberg, John Davies and Herb Elliot.

Lord Altrincham wrote:

Coevett wrote:

As far as I know, every middle-dostance Olympic finalist from 60, 64, and 68 are still alive.

John Davies and Josef Odložil have passed away.

George Kerr and István Rózsavölgyi as well.

Same as it ever was... wrote:

Coevett wrote:

No middle distance runner before the African EPO explosion is known to have used peds and nearly all lived into their. 80s or 90s.

Stupid post tough guy: "No" mid-d runner before the EPO explosion? Yeah, right...try Wenzel (Ephedrine) & Silai (roids) for starters. And there's the East German roid machine used by a lot of their runners, both male & female, which very few ever tested positive for. And considering how lame drug testing was back then Wenzel & Silai must have been glowing like a New England lighthouse on a foggy night to get popped.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Silai

Silai's PB in the 800m and 1500m in the 70's are still world class times today.

Those steroids must have been good.

Same as it ever was... wrote:

Coevett wrote:

No middle distance runner before the African EPO explosion is known to have used peds and nearly all lived into their. 80s or 90s.

Stupid post tough guy: "No" mid-d runner before the EPO explosion? Yeah, right...try Wenzel (Ephedrine) & Silai (roids) for starters. And there's the East German roid machine used by a lot of their runners, both male & female, which very few ever tested positive for. And considering how lame drug testing was back then Wenzel & Silai must have been glowing like a New England lighthouse on a foggy night to get popped.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Silai

800 m – 1:57.39 (1977)

1500 m – 3:58.5 (1979)

In 1979 Silai was banned for 18 months for taking anabolic steroids.[4][5] After 8 months she was reinstated[6] after IAAF President Adriaan Paulen of the Netherlands said that an 18-month suspension in the steroid case would have kept the women out of the Moscow Olympics, which would have constituted "an extra penalty." He said that the IAAF Council had therefore reinstated them for "humane reasons."

No wonder her times were so fast.

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Looks like he hit you pretty hard in the earlier pages of this thread. ? I bet you're one poster who doesn't miss him one bit. ? Haven't heard from him in a while - conspicuous by his absence as they say.

Plastered wrote:

Looks like he hit you pretty hard in the earlier pages of this thread. ? I bet you're one poster who doesn't miss him one bit. ? Haven't heard from him in a while - conspicuous by his absence as they say.

Sure.

It was a rather foolish act though, a bit of a Faustian deal. I suspect that he is on here under another name like xvzxvz or something.

(Better layoff those all nighters, especially at 11,000 feet)

lydiard explained, the athletes tuned to their taste!