The records can state what they like but the facts are these:

FGJ retired from full-time athletics in 1984, aged 25, having won a silver medal in the 200m. While she ran competitively for the next couple of years she also worked in a bank full-time and had a sideline doing people's nails.

In 1987, she married Al Joyner, who should need no introduction to anyone remotely interested in the subject of doping in sport. At the end of 1987, aged 28, her personal best for the 100m was 10.96, half a second - five metres - slower than she would run in the 1988 Olympics.

She set the world record for 100m, which still stands today, at the US Olympic trials in the spring of 1988. That is a half a second improvement in a matter of months. Her 200m WR also still stands, 30 years after the event.

FCJ retired immediately after the 1988 Olympics.


Those are the facts, and they point overwhelmingly towards FCJ being a drug cheat. The fact that no other woman - convicted cheats and the supposedly innocent alike - have been able to even approach her times, and the fact that she herself was unable to even approach them prior to her 29th year also point overwhelmingly to her guilt. As History has proved since, the fact that she failed no tests at the time is an absolute irrelevance. It is simply preposterous to think that an exposed 28-year-old athlete can improve from being merely world-class to being the fastest woman ever for approaching half a century in a matter of months. The fact that she was able to improve her times to such a degree only after the intervention of Al Joyner should also attest to her guilt.

On the last point, it is also worth noting that Sir Mohammed Farah has also never failed a drug test of which we are at present aware. To anybody familiar with the History of human endeavour, his career - and again the sudden huge improvement following a change of coach whom suspicion has followed around since his own running career - is simply not credible without adding in PED involvement.

Of course we don't like to imagine our own athletes descending to these levels, but can anyone find any other explanation for the meter and a half Linford Christie found in his athletic dotage, or for the fact that the Chairman of the IAAF himself was running times in the ultimate speed endurance challenge that have been bettered - marginally - by only two men in the intervening 38 years?

jed.davison cracking post
Glad you've mentioned Sepp Coe eventually he will be outed as being completely bent,he's the leader of a completely corrupt organisation who've taken bribes left,right and centre for years yet he's seemingly untouchable I'm getting deja vu