A few minutes. I am not at all jealous of Africans. What I am not going to accept are athletes from countries with national drug programs, like the Eastern Bloc, China, Turkey, and Morocco, countries with extraordinary corruption and non-existent or limited drug testing, like Kenya and Ethiopia, guys competing in the EPO era with ridiculously fast times that no one can come close to today in the era of micro-dosing, and Spaniards-Portuguese and other European athletes of the 1970s and 1980s, where blood doping was rife. That explains the absence of Coe from my list in the 800m and 1k. I don't believe in the recent fantastic and widespread South and Southern African sprint performances because there is very, very limited testing and a huge leap beyond their historical performances. I discount sprint performances from Americans like Maurice Greene because of drug worries. Bromell came up so quickly, so young, without an overpowering physique, so I thought it was quite possible he wasn't doping. Ato Bolden seems like a great guy, so it's possible he was clean. Christian Coleman, Jeremy Wariner, and Quincy Watts seem possible to me in so far as they did so well already in college, where I presume that runners have fewer resources to dope, but I may well be wrong. (Wariner obviously ran 43.45 years later, but I think he ran 44 flat in 1984 right after his college season.). Cram was the most liked guy on the entire 1500m circuit in the 1980s. Even Coe happily congratulates him. He started as a bit of a prodigy with 3:57 at 17 and made steady progress, though he didn't really go for time until 1985. I hate to say it but I don't really believe in El G, despite that 2001 anti-drug comment, because of Abdelkader, his coach, and his pacer, who tested positive later on. I don't believe in Kiprop because of scant testing, though he's a good guy. I don't believe in Kiplagat, who managed to underperform at most world and Olympic championships.
vivalarepublica wrote:
My question is how much time did you spend compiling such a garbage list. Jealous of Africans much?