Sweet 12.28

Porter finished in another lane.

These new "British" athletes like Tiffany Porter, Mabel Gay and Shana Cox bext year is a bit of a joke imo.  She's American ffs

yeah that 1000m hurdles record back in the 80's like many of the women's records is quite dubious in its authenticity.

pearson's technique is sublime

you can scratch every women's top 20 world mark from late 70s to 1990.

Personally I think Porter is ok- she has one parent of each. I'm less convinced by 'naturalisation' in adulthood though. If you move somewhere when you're a kid fair enough, but the importation of Kenyans by oil rich middle Eastern states got silly a few years back!

I like the way the Kenyans try to cover it up by calling themselves Mohammed etc

An interesting bit of trivia is that not one womens WR in an established athletics event has been broken since 1990.

The new world marks in the 400mh, womens distance events (held by drug cheating Chinese athletes in the 1990s) pole vault and hammer are post 1990 events and the womens javelin marks have been reset with a new spec javelin

Great stuff there. Awesome from Dix and Lemaitre too.

Those are rocket times. I was expecting a Bolt 19.60 and the rest to trail home in 20+

You are right Danno but of the top 50 in the marathon in the all time list only 2 of them were pre 1990.  I'm not an expert on the history of the womens marathon but I don't think it was fully established by 1990, certainly it cant be compared to the 400m or 800m as examples.  It maybe also that the drugs used at that time simply were not effective at extreme distances.

Compare that to the womens shot put where 26 of the top 30 in the all time list are pre 1990 athletes.

Clydebank - sorry, wasn't disagreeing with your overall point.  Most of the pre-1990's women's records are laughable.  Then there were the Chinese women of 1993 (Wang Yunxia holds the 10,000m world record and it is 30 seconds better than the next best - Radcliffe incidentally).

Flo-Jo's records for 100m & 200m should also be struck from the book.  I simply can't believe that she came from nowhere, smashed those world records by so much, retired almost straight away, then died in her mid-thirties....and all that being above board.

Yeah, the whole Eastern Bloc phase is laughable.  Systematic doping, planned an authorised by entire federations.  Apparently quite a few of the athletes weren't actually aware they were doping, they were just told to "take these vitamins".  If you see pics of the likes of Kratochvilova then it's so obvious as she's basically been turned into a man.  Flo Jo was also off her face.

The Chinese group of "Ma's Army" was also ridiculous.  They set stupid records, in championship races, behind closed doors (Chinese champs) all within a few days of each other and then they never ran anywhere close to their times again in global events... fishy?  The IAAF really should abolish most of the women's records and start again as a lot of them are a joke.

11am onwards

Does Usain Bolt run in the 4x200m relay for Jamaica?

I am just trying to figure out how many gold medals he will get at the Olympics next year!!

laying the jamaicans

backing lagat

Superlative Mo Farah.

5000 Gold after losing by inches in the 10k

Great two minutes for GB, think that has landed Phillips the Gold also