Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Jun 6, 2021 21:54:17 GMT
Hard to know what to say about that really.
I remember watching that Olympic final and it was an absolute joke. She was lapping everyone way before the end, people weren't happy. You can google any number of articles questioning it from back at that time, e.g:- fivethirtyeight.com/features/did-almaz-ayana-break-the-world-record-by-too-much/
Almaz Ayana, an Ethiopian runner, came in at 29:17.45, utterly smashing the previous world record by 14 seconds. Ayana set out on a blistering pace — her 5K splits were 14:47.10 and 14:30.35 — and finished strong in a loaded field. Before today, no one had come within 22 seconds of Chinese runner Wang Junxia’s record, set in 1993. Earlier this year, it was reported that Wang signed a letter in 1995 in which she admitted to being part of a state-sanctioned doping program.
So you had a world record which was viewed as a joke, given the amount of time taken off the previous mark made by EPO'd up Chinese athlete of the early 90s.
And now we have ANOTHER 10 seconds off that performance! What can you say...