Remember Elaine Thompson-Herah from the Olympics? Gold medalist in the 100m and 200m, also 4x100. She just ran a 10.54 in the 100m. That's only 0.05 seconds slower than Florence Griffith Joyner's 1988 record. She also became the first woman in history to run 40 km/h.
No she did not.
Yes she did. Unfortunately she finished last.
If you are referring to Sha'Carri Richardson she did not race in the Olympics. She did finish last in the Prefontaine Classic on the 21st and finished last in that.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I know she was not allowed to run in the Olympics. But I had read this was her chance to complete against the top three finishers at the Olympics. I was wondering how she did. Now I'm wondering why she didn't do very well. Might be an injury?
I watched the race and saw her interview afterwards. She said nothing about an injury, said she's exactly where she wants to be post Olympics (ie. her form, etc.), and that people who write her off will be proven wrong as she will be back. She also dropped the word $#!t on national television! I guess it was live cuz they didn't bleep it out.
As poorly as Richardson did in the Prefontaine Classic, you have to wonder if she’s done any serious training since her positive drug test & DQ at the Trials. She really was not ready to compete against that talented field.
It's a legal time, but yes there was wind: +0.9 m/s Times that do not qualify for records start at +2 m/s.
Yes, she did. She ran her heart out and finished ninth.
No injury. She just wasn’t “star-struck” by the three Jamaicans.
My view is quite the opposite. Those recognized records were set DESPITE not having access to the advanced technology. Equipment and even diet and training regimens available to today’s subsidized athletes. Therefore these older records should not only be respected, but the source of real acclaim.
It's a tricky subject and there's so much gray area. Reasons for suspicion abound, both for the decades-old world records and the current top athletes.
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Not to dismiss your point of view, but this article “WADA Warns Jamaica” refers to the “London Olympics, 2012”, and not the “Tokyo Olympics 2020/2021”. But the rules and goals of no doping still apply.It's a tricky subject and there's so much gray area. Reasons for suspicion abound, both for the decades-old world records and the current top athletes.
The WRs of Flo-Jo in the 100 and 200 (1988), Koch in the 400 (1985) and Kratochvilova in the 800 (1983) seem highly unlikely to be "clean" given the weight of historical circumstance, but how can we be assured that today's dopers aren't exploiting the cracks and loopholes that WADA isn't yet wise to? Detection science is always playing catch-up to performance science.
Among the evidence frequently cited against Flo-Jo was her astonishing improvement in just the last few months leading up to the 1988 US trials and Olympics. Well, I'd say that Elaine Thompson's improvement just this summer — and especially between her 3rd place finish in the 100m at the Jamaican trials to threatening the world record in Tokyo and Eugene — is no less astonishing. I guess we're to believe she found just the right training-and-nutrition mojo just in the nick of time?
It's well known now that out-of-competition testing is critical to even a minimal semblance of effective anti-doping control (since only the most obtuse or careless get caught in competition). But when we look under the hood of today's anti-doping structure, we see that compliance with OOC testing rules is, for all practical purposes, in the hands of the national anti-doping organizations (NADOs), which are of widely varying robustness and integrity. It's a minor miracle that, contrasted to the wild success of Jamaican sprinting, the laughable inadequacy of the Jamaican anti-doping agency hasn't yet been a bigger story or led to any significant repercussions.
WADA Warns Jamaica
(ATR) The World Anti-Doping Agency says Jamaica must overhaul its drug testing system or risk expulsion from the Olympics.
I don't agree with this. Thompson-Herah is not some flash in the pan; she was the gold medalist in Rio too. In fact, if you do some wind assist math her times have been pretty consistent since 2012. Some steady minor improvement (hundredth's of seconds) over time, but that's typical of sprinters.
I also think this is true, and it's the basis of my earlier reasoning for "legit" records. Either you trust the governing body of the sport to adjust as needed to keep things fair, or you watch a different sport. What other choice is there, really?
