It was 20 years ago today...

[Rog]

Re: It was 20 years ago today...

>it's a part of track & field history, none-the-less. i, too, am saddened that
>these "records" are still in places. everybody look at this:

Marion Jones
>10.70
Merlene Ottey 21.64
Marie Jose-Perec 48.25
Ana Quirot
>1:54.44...

how refreshing does that list look. i mean just looking at the
>marita koch race is, i believe, evidence of her drug use. the race was poorly
>executed! she started to tie up in the final few strides of the race.
>obviously it wasn't her technique that fueled those records.

Hassiba Boulmerka 3:55.30
Gabriela Szabo 8:21.42
Paula Radcliffe 30:01.09

The ironic thing is that there are question marks against several of the names you have mentioned above. I don't agree that Koch's run was poorly executed - she only tied up at the end and she had been running at a faster pace than ever before, plus there was a headwind in the home straight and no-one close to her. You must be very difficult to please!

[eldrick]

Re: It was 20 years ago today...

>Look at these too

Hassiba Boulmerka 3:55.30
Gabriela Szabo 8:21.42
Paula
>Radcliffe 30:01.09<

svetly's 4'12 wr is intrinsically far superior to bouly's time - if she'd run a 1.5k that day instead, her time wouda been ~ mid-3'53

imho, the actual 1.5k wr is svetly with ~ 3'53.5

[anggrek]

Re: It was 20 years ago today...

>>record will last another generation or two or ten...<<

if they hadn't changed the women's jav specs, that record would have outlasted dirt.

tell me now, why did they change the women's javelin? it's not like they were hitting 100 m like the men's.

[gh]

desire to get rid of bad calls on flat throws, so new implement basically always lands point-first

[MCFLY]

Re: It was 20 years ago today...

>Look at these too

Hassiba Boulmerka 3:55.30
Gabriela Szabo 8:21.42
Paula
>Radcliffe 30:01.09<

svetly's 4'12 wr is intrinsically far superior to bouly's time - if she'd run a 1.5k that day instead, her time wouda been ~ mid-3'53

imho, the actual 1.5k wr is svetly with ~ 3'53.5

i agree. svetlana masterkova's mile from zurich '96 is probably the best clean performance ever at the 1.5k/mile distance. if i remember correctly, track & field news converted her 4:12.56 mile as being worth 3:53.85.

obviously marion jones's mark is considered questionable because of the balco scandel, but specifically which of the others are questionable, too?

[eldrick]

Re: It was 20 years ago today...

i agree. svetlana masterkova's mile from zurich '96 is probably the best clean performance ever at the 1.5k/mile distance. if i remember correctly, track & field news converted her 4:12.56 mile as being worth 3:53.85.

that conversion is with the standard 1.08 factor used for converting between 1.5k/1M races & 3k/2M races

however, svetly had superb 1'56.04 speed that year, which makes that conversion slightly ungenerous to her - i get a figure more like

~3'53.6

it's a bit pedantic to quibble over ~ 2/10, but at this rarified level, she shoud fight for every 0.01s which is her due !