Bad Wigins wrote:
KripKreeno wrote:
the 1968 Olympics. Everyone was tested - drugs were not illegal at the time. ALL of the Jamaicans and Kenyans were on drugs.
Yes they were illegal, since 1928. No, they did not test everyone in 1968, and they only caught one guy, and not for a PED but for being drunk. Anti-doping wasn't even about performance enhancement, it was about image. A lot of people were flipping out about drug-using hippies at the time.
Ryun, like most milers since the late 1930's, probably raced on amphetamines. There is no more effective PED in the world; since their introduction, the mile WR dropped 15 seconds in barely 30 years, after dropping only 6 seconds in the previous 50. In-comp testing eradicated them nearly immediately 50 years ago, and the record has dropped only 8 seconds further.
If amphetamines were legalized, the 1500m wr would soon be 3:22.
Huh?...3;22? Are you sure amphetamines are that performance enhancing? On the flip side with side-effects they carry a significant cardiovascular risk....definitely poison to the heart!