Women and doping

[DrSahl]

Sex, age, ethnicity, height, weight, etc.. does not matter.. if you can gain something and get away with it, then you do it.
There are many examples of doping in female sports.

 

[awavey]

Hulk smash

 

[Slavique Nuke]

50 year old woman still top 10 in the world championship ITT. Quite ridiculous

 

[Nick2413]

2:09:56 women’s marathon WR today in Chicago. 2 Minutes faster than previous record and only 8% behind men’s WR which seems to be closer than in most other distances.

 

[QuickZulu]

2:09:56 women’s marathon WR today in Chicago. 2 Minutes faster than previous record and only 8% behind men’s WR which seems to be closer than in most other distances.

I remember watching in utter disbelief just last year when the Ethiopian woman smashed the old record by over 2 minutes. This now means in the space of just one year over 4 minutes has been taken off that record!

Either the shoe-tech has reached utterly ridiculous levels, or there's some new stuff going around which the women are responding to particularly well.

 

[Nick2413]

I remember watching in utter disbelief just last year when the Ethiopian woman smashed the old record by over 2 minutes. This now means in the space of just one year over 4 minutes has been taken off that record!

Either the shoe-tech has reached utterly ridiculous levels, or there's some new stuff going around which the women are responding to particularly well.

Shoe tech hasn’t improved much in years to my knowledge. This is about as extreme as what we’re seeing in cycling. Completely unbelievable.

 

[TrekCyclist]

Seems the runners are getting their hands on similar stuff as the cyclists.
(or they found a few "generational talents" as well, and we are simply witnessing history)

 

[Sciatic]

Seems the runners are getting their hands on similar stuff as the cyclists.
(or they found a few "generational talents" as well, and we are simply witnessing history)

One difference is that elite distance runners ( many, but not just, Kenyans) keep getting busted, while it’s seems a long time since a well-known pro road cyclist gets busted for EPO, steroids, AiCAR, etc. ( I don’t put Quintana’s trazadone violation in the same category).

 

[Tim Cahill]