Tokyo Olympics

IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Anyway, remember Desmond Douglas who was UK number one for years? He had a weird stance which they say came from learning in cramped spaces... interesting to think how good he could have been with better facilities.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Which was the Olympics when all these completely unknown Chinese female distance runners started lapping all the favourites and winning by ridiculous amounts? I remember i was on holiday in Orkney though that may not help anyone identify it.
 
luka

luka

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there was a scare about chinese athletes being genitically engineered in the atlanta olympics cos the won a few swimming golds. america has some mad idea that only they should be allowed to dope
 
luka

luka

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as if state sanctioned doping is somehow in a different moral category to private/corporate doping.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
It was 93 apparently, maybe World Championships... it was the blatancy that annoyed people... total unknowns slaughtering established champions, taking minutes off the world records and not even breaking sweat.

In one month that changed the history of their sport, the Chinese women distance runners won three world titles and four world records. Until then no female Chinese track athlete had won a world record. Two-time US Olympian Patti-Sue Plumer told the Chicago Tribune: "They destroyed any chance of any female human breaking those records in the next 100 years".
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luka

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IdleRich said:
Which was the Olympics when all these completely unknown Chinese female distance runners started lapping all the favourites and winning by ridiculous amounts? I remember i was on holiday in Orkney though that may not help anyone identify it.
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the fuss was that they had found a better chemical brew and being orders of magnitude better as chemists was considered unfair. but why?
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
I dunno, I just remember it was interesting. All the favourites crying afterwards and saying it was impossible to run that fast.
And then they never did it again

In August, Chinese women distance runners under coach Ma Junren stunned the world and swept the world titles from 1500 m to 10,000 m in Stuttgart, Germany. Wang claimed the world title in 10,000 m (30:49.30), although she was sick before the race. In less than a month, she went on to win the 3000 m and 10,000 m in Chinese National Games with 3 world records in 3 races.

On September 8, she won the 10,000 m final in a world record of 29:31.78, which bettered the former record by 42 seconds and was also the first-ever sub-30 minute performance in this event.

On September 11, she finished second in 1500 m behind her teammate, Qu Yunxia in another world record breaking race. Qu ran 3:50.46 (world record at the time) against Wang's 3:51.92. Four years later, Bo Jiang and Yinglai Lang ran slightly faster than Wang in the same race. Qu's record remained on the books until it was finally beaten by Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia when she ran 3:50.07 at the Herculis meet in Monaco on July 15, 2015. Wang is currently fifth on the all-time list.

In 3000 m heats on September 12, Wang's teammates broke the 3000 m world record in the first heat. This world record was just briefly held, when it was erased by Wang in the second heat. The next day she claimed the 3000 m in another record time 8:06.11. She also won the World Cup Marathon Championships later in the year.

In 1994, she was awarded the Jesse Owens prize on the remarkable performances in 1993.
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IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Clinamenic said:
Thats what I had in mind. I want it to be visible from the nosebleed seats, distinctly inhuman.
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It's easier to spot now cos as athletes become more superhuman the non athlete members of the human race become fatter, slower and risk a heart attack getting their bottle of coke from the fridge.
 
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