big dave22 wrote:
Ruman wrote:
I think Dibaba runs an outdoor WR (excepting Chinese in ‘93) with Hassan right on her heels, as 8 women break 8:30.
Are you insinuating that Dibaba's time would be the "clean" WR? Because that's just insulting. I kind of love the fact that even the most doped up East Africans can't touch that 8:06. Masterful trolling by the Chinese there.
Anyway, the mile is always the best event. A good realistic time for Jakob would be 3:51.
And Wangs 8’06, 3000m record is ironically a supporting fact that Genzebe or any of the current outstanding 3k runners may not in fact be doping.
I would bet my house that the current top East African female runners have more talent and altitude adapted advantage than Wang. - And yet nobody can get within 10 seconds of her record??
Granted, the 3k was shortly thereafter replaced by the 5k in terms of the gold ribbon distance event at WC events, but even so I would have expected an East African to better it by now had rampant doping as alleged by many Let’s Run posters been the reason for their global dominance.