more rubbish
he is a kid who can sometimes exhibit his impressive smarts
you are an older kid with no smarts to exhibit at all
it was a low class unknown meet
every track fan when they heard he set the wr in firenze was saying
"where ???!!!"
quarrie was washed up winning bronze in a boycott games in a pathetic 20.29 when he had a 19.86pb
maina gave up in '80 when boycotted out of games
deleze was a nobody kid in '80 - 5y before peak of '85 when thrashing coe in 3'31.75
nonsense
iaaf was little more than a rubber stamp back then
all it did was ratify clockings/wind
it did not measure tracks & as long as timing/wind submitted back then it stamped them
fool
people still call rieti today a short track
utterly clueless
it's clear you were hardly born in ‘80
kenyans gave up in ’80 when no games to go to
maina/rono ran nothing worth bothering with in ‘80
maina who was a legit threat in ’80 & had won zurich ‘79/world cup
coe ducked him in ’79 world cup
as for firenze, soon as he ran it, ambitious guys turned up
aouita smashed his 3’37.3pb down to 3’32.5 !!!
then he ran incredible 13’04 in ’84 with no serious 5k to his name !!!
no adult fan expected better than 13’15
caballo after nothing since ’78 but low key 1’45+ on home track in ’83 turned up in firenze in ’84 & ran 1’44.8 !
sabia won race in 1’43.8 !!!
he never cracked 1’44.5 rest of career
firenze gave you superfast times as long as you made an effort
meaningless on a likely short track of 2m/lap
but his fault he couldn’t back up that run in 8 more “pure” 800s where he couldn’t even crack 1’45.4 !!!
great 800 guys run 1’40.9 or 1’42.6i solo
coe offered nothing in his 8 further 800s in ’81 to suggest firenze was legit
drivel
guy gets toxoplasmosis & claims he got it from “feral cats in rome” !!!
utter nonsense
he wasn’t a tramp sleeping alleys in ‘80s but in top class hotel
it’s a transfusion borne illness for many
nonsense
he spent so much time sick/injured he couldn’t be tested much in ‘82/’83/’85/’87/’88 !!!
primitive testing, infrequent tests
a toxoplasmosis +ve stinks to high heaven of blood transfusion
only a fool woud quote the 1k which is an essentially extinct event
1 circuit 1k this year
& hammered badly in his 1’43.07 by a cruz who was shadow of ’84 shape
no
it’s because his body broke down due to toxoplasmosis inducing enhancements
that runt body was never meant to break 1’43.5 as any adult back in ’79 knew
but a deluded kid hardly out of diapers in ‘79 woudn’t realise this
nonsense
try more like 1’43-flat in ’84 with lots of drafting
& huge amount of drafting in ‘86
fool
he didn’t have serious euro circuit to race in & peaked outside of majors for his domestic season at start of year
fool
he had 1 leg shorter than other
he was always destined to have about 1 or 2 good seasons before pelvic pain woud finish him
more rubbish
a hugely injury inflicted guy moving up from 400 to 800
he had 1 good 800 year
no
they were running wrong time of year/congenital leg problem/hugely injury prone
no toxoplasmosis there
nonsense
those guys had legit reasons for further fast/faster clockings
coe didn’t
utter drivel
it’s clear you were hardly born back then
every major euro circuit 800 expected a 50-flat opener from pacer
nonsense
from ’79 ->
it was a frenzy of chasing fast times/wrs with pacers for every major circuit race
coe/ovett/maree/scott/cruz/aouita/moorcroft
all chasing wrs at every continental meet
it is clear you were hardly born in that era
stop talking drivel to observers who were adults back then