She is 25 years old and in the prime of her career. She is faster (as evidenced by her 200m time earlier this year) than she was as a kid, plus the 400mh is the one event where you see dramatic time improvements as you get more proficient at the event. She is running new step patterns and eliminating strides, which makes her faster and as she gets more proficient at it, she keeps her speed and velocity over each hurdle versus chopping and slowing down like the people she is beating.
She is 25 years old and in the prime of her career. She is faster (as evidenced by her 200m time earlier this year) than she was as a kid, plus the 400mh is the one event where you see dramatic time improvements as you get more proficient at the event. She is running new step patterns and eliminating strides, which makes her faster and as she gets more proficient at it, she keeps her speed and velocity over each hurdle versus chopping and slowing down like the people she is beating.
Okay champ? Keep those red, white and blue blinders on.
She's as doped as Flo-Jo was. She happens to have the same coach? Nothing to see here.
I'd like to think that athletics still has the romance of runners that are genetically gifted and through hard work become incredible outliers. But bitter experience has made the reflex to now think that people are doping. Just imagine if a winner of the Olympic marathon later this week finished and did calisthenics at the end of a race as the winner did in 1964. What would you think? 'Oh, Bikile is surely on the stuff.' I try to keep an open mind. Admittedly sometimes that is difficult.
She is 25 years old and in the prime of her career. She is faster (as evidenced by her 200m time earlier this year) than she was as a kid, plus the 400mh is the one event where you see dramatic time improvements as you get more proficient at the event. She is running new step patterns and eliminating strides, which makes her faster and as she gets more proficient at it, she keeps her speed and velocity over each hurdle versus chopping and slowing down like the people she is beating.
Okay champ? Keep those red, white and blue blinders on.
She's as doped as Flo-Jo was. She happens to have the same coach? Nothing to see here.
Okay Grump. How dare an elite athlete who only had 1 year of college coaching and shuffled pro coaches early in her career, finally gets her event dialed in and succeeds, she is cheating. Kinda ironic when someone points out reasons for her improved times, you refuse to see it - but we have the blinders on. Right on.
SML has been consistent at competing at a high level since she was a kid.
Marion Jones stopped competing during part of college, in order to focus on her basketball career at UNC. She then reappeared in 1997 - after a few years out of the sport - with a world-leading time in the 100m that year.
THAT is fishy.
False equivalency? Why because it refutes your child prodigies don't dope argument?
I'm not sure if you understand what a false equivalency is:
"A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency."
You have a habit of putting words into other peoples' mouths; I never claimed child prodigies don't dope. Merely that your comparison is flawed.
I'm not even claiming that SML is not doping; every elite is suspect in my eyes. Just that you aren't demonstrating any concrete reasons as to why.
False equivalency? Why because it refutes your child prodigies don't dope argument?
I'm not sure if you understand what a false equivalency is:
"A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency."
You have a habit of putting words into other peoples' mouths; I never claimed child prodigies don't dope. Merely that your comparison is flawed.
I'm not even claiming that SML is not doping; every elite is suspect in my eyes. Just that you aren't demonstrating any concrete reasons as to why.
Your last statement says it all. You know she’s doping. The only reason you’re arguing is because she’s an American. If she was Chinese you’d have no problem calling her out.
Okay champ? Keep those red, white and blue blinders on.
She's as doped as Flo-Jo was. She happens to have the same coach? Nothing to see here.
Okay Grump. How dare an elite athlete who only had 1 year of college coaching and shuffled pro coaches early in her career, finally gets her event dialed in and succeeds, she is cheating. Kinda ironic when someone points out reasons for her improved times, you refuse to see it - but we have the blinders on. Right on.
Or she joins a coach that is notorious for PED use and sees an immediate 2.5 second improvement.
Okay Grump. How dare an elite athlete who only had 1 year of college coaching and shuffled pro coaches early in her career, finally gets her event dialed in and succeeds, she is cheating. Kinda ironic when someone points out reasons for her improved times, you refuse to see it - but we have the blinders on. Right on.
Or she joins a coach that is notorious for PED use and sees an immediate 2.5 second improvement.
Felix had the same coach and pretty much plateaued for her entire career after her first Worlds 200m gold as a teenager. She should sue the hell out of Kersee for not giving her the turbo drugs you claim he is giving to Sydney.
Or she joins a coach that is notorious for PED use and sees an immediate 2.5 second improvement.
Felix had the same coach and pretty much plateaued for her entire career after her first Worlds 200m gold as a teenager. She should sue the hell out of Kersee for not giving her the turbo drugs you claim he is giving to Sydney.
Felix has some suspicious performances. How about a 47.x split at the end of her career.
Kersee is the same kind of scumbag as Salazar. Dirty coach with dirty athletes.
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Kind of like when a woman from China accidentally didn't dial back enough and swam the last 50 of a race faster than Ryan Lochte did in his?
It was the 400 individual medley, she smashed the world record and won, but Lochte also won gold. Her last 50 (freestyle) was faster than his. And she was only 16 years old.
And yet the world record is four seconds faster now with three athletes ranked ahead of her in the all time rankings. She just did a sally save up so she could come home strong while Lochte did the opposite and came home slow.
Okay Grump. How dare an elite athlete who only had 1 year of college coaching and shuffled pro coaches early in her career, finally gets her event dialed in and succeeds, she is cheating. Kinda ironic when someone points out reasons for her improved times, you refuse to see it - but we have the blinders on. Right on.
Or she joins a coach that is notorious for PED use and sees an immediate 2.5 second improvement.
Plus she hired him in 2020 when she couldn't beat Muhammed and only after that started beating her.