Kennf1 said:Ferrari is a hematologist. Fuentes (Operation Puerto) was the gynaecologist.
Combine them and you get a herpetologist, with their snake oil potions.
Dave.
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Kennf1 said:Ferrari is a hematologist. Fuentes (Operation Puerto) was the gynaecologist.
TheInternet said:The USA improved inch by inch up until 2011. Then somewhere between July 20th and August 11th, the USA stumbled upon the Jamaican formula and picked up a half second improvement.
FoxxyBrown1111 said:... In London they (USA) finally hit full stride in the dope arms race w/Jamaica, bombing their record down from 37.40 to 37.04...
D-Queued said:You missed my reference up thread.
Genes only express themselves in the most recent generation.
Your data confirms that Jamaicans have been able to advance their genetics at a spectacular rate compared to the overall human population.
Not only have they made great advances, but they have done this with a much shorter generational gap - moving to less than 10 years between generations.
These two factors confirm how superior the Jamaican genome is: higher generation:generation advancement, and shorter generation:generation spacing.
The third, and most impressive factor, is how they can share the genetic improvements through osmosis from one athlete to another.
You can see the high leg lifts expressed in Weir and Blake, both unrelated to Bolt.
If you are struggling to perceive this, it could be that something is wrong with your vision. Try correcting your eyesight with a combination of 3D glasses, beer goggles and a magnifying glass.
Everything should become very clear.
Dave.
FoxxyBrown1111 said:Yes i found out too. Great year for sprinters.
So if i understand it right, the next improvement will be bigger and in a shorter time, like going down to 35.0 no later than 2015?
D-Queued said:Yes, exactly. We will see 100m times below 9s in Rio, and under 6s by 2020 once they discover the advantages of acceleration.
The final will be all Jamaican.
Dave.
D-Queued said:Yes, exactly. We will see 100m times below 9s in Rio, and under 6s by 2020 once they discover the advantages of acceleration.
The final will be all Jamaican.
Dave.
the big ring said:I'm looking forward to a slower cadence where your steps are longer and subsequently you go faster for the same number of steps.
before the age of bolt it was feared the 100m was turning into a chemical ally, olympic lanes of suspicous speed. But bolt in beijing made it pure theater, and now he was top billing
Caruut said:I have very little to do and was bored, so thought I would make a ranking of athletics events by how close together the best times are. I took the athletes with the 5 best times ever set from each event and looked at the year they set their PB in. I then discarded the year that was furthest from the mean and took the variance of the remaining four. So, for the 200m, Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Michael Johnson, Walter Dix and Tyson Gay are the top 5 athletes with PBs set in 2009, 2011, 1996, 2011 and 2009 respectively. Clearly Johnson's 1996 time is the outlier, so I discard that, giving a variance of 1. These are most of the Olympic events, ranked by lowest to highest variance.
Event Var Avg of the years used
100m 0.50 2009
200m 1.00 2010
Marathon 1.19 2011
Shotput 1.19 1988
110m H 2.75 2008
Long jump 3.19 1989
High jump 4.19 1987
Javelin 4.25 1998
1500m 5.25 1999
Pole vault 8.19 1997
10000m 9.50 2003
5000m 10.69 2001
400m H 10.69 1995
4x100m 28.50 2008
4x400m 33.19 1998
400m 42.25 2002
Decathlon 44.50 1994
Trip jump 56.50 2003
Discus 56.75 1999
Hammer 63.69 2000
800m 136.69 2001
Discarding the value furthest from the mean was intended to prevent one brilliant athlete in a particular era from obscuring a general trend. For the relays, I looked down the list and took the best time which included no athletes from any time I had used above.
The most striking clusters of results are the shotput in the late 80s and 100m, 200m and marathon running in the modern day. Doesn't tell us that much we don't already suspect I suppose, but I found it quite interesting to do anyway.
User Guide said:I had a look at the link to IAAF site you posted....
Lol @ womens records
GDR GDR GDR USSR China etc etc...... (some USA sssshhh is only dirty commies cheat)
most 20-30 years old and wont be broke in my lifetime 10k my favourite still fastest by 22 seconds how many years later where I buy me some turtle blood or was it soup I forget.
Caruut said:I am still bored, so I will do a version for the women's records that I forgot the first time around. Watch this space.
EDIT: This is just tragically hilarious. http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/topl...n=0/sex=W/all=y/legal=A/disc=1500/detail.html. On further reading it gets even crazier - not one of the Chinese women with a PB in the top 200 times ever run set that PB outside of China.
JackRabbitSlims said:http://http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/7473643/Ostapchuks-cheating-clear-for-all-to-see
Ostaphcuk's tests positive for Steroid.....2nd place Kiwi, Valerie Adam's will be awarded the Gold medal!!
Paul said he was proud of his efforts in keeping the cycling competition clean and fair.
“The best experience was being on the velodrome floor for Jason Kenny’s medal ceremony when he won gold.”
User Guide said:I had a look at the link to IAAF site you posted....
Lol @ womens records
GDR GDR GDR USSR China etc etc...... (some USA sssshhh is only dirty commies cheat)
most 20-30 years old and wont be broke in my lifetime 10k my favourite still fastest by 22 seconds how many years later where I buy me some turtle blood or was it soup I forget.
the asian said:Did you miss Flo Jo's 100M & 200M World records set in 1988.
The women's track WRs from 100M up to 1500M are dirty along with the Women's 100 M Hurdles. The lesser said about the field events, the better.
the asian said:Though not directly related to 2012 Olympics I might as well post the link here.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/10/sport/chioma-ajunwa-nigeria-long-jump/index.html?hpt=iaf_t4.
Interesting interview conducted By CNN for the African Voices program with Nigerian Long Jumper Chioma Ajunwa, who won a Gold Medal in 1996 after a returning from a 4 yr ban for doping.
User Guide said:Why dosent Nigeria dominate sprints and the like?
Keep hearing about fast twitch muscles and west african body shape (lower centre of gravity etc) surely a country with such a large population should be producing more world class sprinters.40-50 times as many people as Jamaica.
sniper said:Allow me to introduce Paul, an anti-doping volunteer at this year's olympic cycling event.
“My role was to inform them that they had an important appointment with porcelain or to give blood.