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Mrs John Murphy said:Ledecky swam 11 seconds faster than she had swum the previous month.
Improved her personal best from 8:19.78 to 8:14.63 in less than a month
She broke 22 year old record.
The British swimmer who holds the record broke it wearing a hi-tech suit - now banned and Ledecky was about 1.5 seconds off of that.
And it's just down to age based improvements...
Franklin's performance was also pretty eyebrow raising.
fuzzydunlop3 said:three big names that come to mind would be Hackett, Klim, Huegill. My money is on Klim
Mrs John Murphy said:How many 14/15 year olds do you know who took 30 seconds off their PB at elite level?
Mrs John Murphy said:Ledecky was 7 months younger than Evans (and also assumes that Evans was clean when she was beating swimmers from the GDR).
Mad Elephant Man said:Oh look, someone took my feet comment seriously.
Please excuse me while I go outside to laugh at them, it would be rude to do it right in front of them
p'raps.martinvickers said:Roger F seems, to my uneducated eye, to be a fairly clear story.
Best player of his generation, possibly ever, more or less clean, completely dominant...until a batch of 'marathon men' 5hr freaks caught up with him...a few years of getting beaten around a bit...followed by his 'comeback' to world no 1 where he can more or less hang with these guys again...the implication is obvious enough - and would also explain why he might favour more testing ("if we all have to stop, I'll beat those sods again")
and others. Klim post 200o, Rooney, plus a mountain of other record holders and winners of worlds and olympic medals.fuzzydunlop3 said:interesting that both Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen both trained under Denis Cotterell in Australia, who also happened to be Grant Hackett's coach.
Mrs John Murphy said:Ledecky was 7 months younger than Evans (and also assumes that Evans was clean when she was beating swimmers from the GDR).
blackcat said:Dara Torres was a mediocre swimmer, who was only talented on an NCAA level.
am correctedWallace and Gromit said:Is this the same Dara Torres who won 4 Olympic relay golds between 1984 (age 17) and 2000 (age 33) and who set the American 50m freestyle record aged 15?
I'm not saying her form in her 40s wasn't suspicious, but to write off her early years as being medicocre just cannot be justified.
Unrelated to the above, she's seriously hot for a lady closer to 50 than 40!
Tigers cough cough docfuzzydunlop3 said:Dara is also linked to a Canadian doctor, Anthony Galea, who provided steroids to athletes. She also "developed" asthma in her 30's in order to get a TUE.
yeah. naked on the bike.Dear Wiggo said:Didn't Annie do exactly the same style of pics for Lance Armstrong?
At least Tiger has always said he spends a lot of time lifting weights etc, compared to some Tennis Playersblackcat said:yeah. naked on the bike.
tiger has nice nipple follicles. musta been what attracted alll those cocktail waitresses