40 Year Old Track & Field Records SHOULD Be Reviewed.. Here’s Why
Welcome back to Athletic Focus, today on this channel we are going to talk about “Should 40-year-old track & field records be reviewed?” TRACK AND field has been plagued by doping violations for several decades. The most notable is arguably the 1980s when several athletes were found to have used performance-enhancing drugs. During this period, the performances of athletes were so good that they would still win medals today.
While there was an explosion in performances there was a simultaneous improvement in, and
justification of strategies used to combat doping in sports. With the advances in doping control, however, athletes still ‘escaped’ detection using various means. The ‘BALCO Scandal’ is an example of this, where designer steroids were used nearly 20 years later. Check this video out and stay updated!
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The women's 800m world record is the most juiced up world record of them all!
I've suspected it for years………
If they were all on steroids! well it was even!
I hate when people try to go back and change things! (He'll) go forward, going back to discredit everybody?
The whole track and field athletes are on em the whole world..
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I ran on that track in Greece it’s still there and so very awkward!
Sorry but I don’t need complex testing and a chemistry degree to pick who is likely be cheating … girls having bigger muscles than boys is a big hint 😂
This is nothing but anti-Black racism disguised as a Youtube video.
whats to review we know they were all on the juice thats not even news. Let it be.
Now they have these designer PEDs that are difficult to detect the present time.
Yes,a forty year old record should be reviewed. Reason, technology has advanced so much now, with athletes doing better, that record if cleaned would have been destroyed. She had failed to do drug testing, maybe retired and also die early. She had the body of someone on steroids. The evidence died with her.
Don't y'all think you are just a bit late with who did & who didn't; Hm🧐🤷♂️🤔??? Amen 🙏!!!
At this point leave the records alone. With todays technology athletes are better than roided up athletes from the 70s & 80s. Going back in time is a slippery slope and it’s just conjecture. If you get even one record erased that shouldn’t have been that’s not good. Let the youngins today break those records. I just saw a 12yr old girl run a 57 second 400m. Let’s just break the records and move on.
Funny story about the ‘76 Olympic 100m. It kinda seems like it wanders around, but it all comes together in the end.
I was with a team in Budapest in the summer of ‘74. That’s were I first saw Silvio Leonard and Alberto Juantorena (el caballo). They were both very impressive. Silvio was silky smooth in the 100 and Juantorena won the 400 looking like he was jogging. His stride length was enormous and he was powerful.
I saw Silvio again in 1975 in the Mexico City Pan Am’s. He was walking around in his track suit and flip flops in the canteen. First time I saw him up close. I couldn’t believe my eyes. He was a skinny dude, kinda slouched over and he walked like a duck, with his feet pointing outwards. If he used the juice, it sure didn’t show. If I didn’t know better, I would guess he couldn’t break 13 sec in the 100.
A while later, I was on an athletes bus with Hasely Crawford and some American sprinters. The Americans were working Hasely over pretty bad. Calling him a chicken for not running the 200 and a big baby. Telling him he was going to lose, etc. I was amazed that Hasely took it, because he was a big dude. But it seemed like he didn’t know fight back, even verbally. I was kinda pissed at the Americans for ganging up on the guy. Pretty gutless and poor sportsmanship from where I come from. But I didn’t butt in and thankfully the ride was over soon enough.
A while later, I was watching the 100m final. Silvio was just as smooth as I remembered. He took the Gold and Hasely got the Silver. But just as Silvio dipped at the line, he pulled a ham pretty bad and he was having real trouble hitting the brakes. His speed carried him off the end of the track. The Olympic Stadium was built with kind of an EMPTY MOAT separating the stands from the track for security reasons (after all, this was Mexico City) . As I recall it was was about 4’ across and an 8’ DROP TO A CONCRETE BOTTOM. Before Silvio or I realized the danger, he JUST DISAPPEARED OVER THE EDGE AND INTO THE MOAT. If he hadn’t pulled his hamstring, he could have slowed down no problem. But he couldn’t put any pressure on his bad leg. Imagine having a badly pulled hamstring and falling 8’ down onto concrete. I don’t recall watching the medal ceremony, so I’m not sure if he was in it.
Fast forward to the Montreal Olympics. Silvio seems to be fully recovered. Silvio and Alberto are running really well. Both should medal, probably both gold. But not so fast. They were apparently rooming together, not sure if it was in the village, but I think it was. Anyways, they were goofing around and knocked a bottle or glass off a table. It broke and JUST WOULDN’T YOU KNOW HIS LUCK, SILVIO STEPPED ON IT WITH HIS BARE FOOT. Sliced his foot WIDE OPEN AND HE WAS OUT of the 100, just like that. Man, that guy had bad luck!!
What surprised me was HASELY TOOK THE GOLD, Don Quarry the Silver and Valeriy Borzov the Bronze. I didn’t think Hasely had the mental strength, the way he took the razzing from the Americans, but I guess he did. For a little guy, Don Quarry was known for his bad starts. But his top end was killer. He was closing on Hasely so fast at the end of that race, but he just ran out of track. But Quarry got his redemption, winning the 200m GOLD where he actually got a good start for a change
As for Alberto, he was the only guy to ever win both the Olympic 400m and 800m. Those races are so different, it takes a freak of nature to be world class in both. That’s why they called Alberto “el caballo”, “the horse”. He was a freak of nature and so amazing to watch, especially in person where his power and stride length could really be appreciated.
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THEY WERE ALL TESTED!!
don't impugn people without evidence. who the fuck you think you are ? Donald Trump?
1988 Carl Lewis really got away with testing because he was like certain percentage short of being actually tested positive for steroids which he did actually admit he used an enhancement. It was enough that he cried to win the gold medal even though he lost the race the actual race. Steroids don't make you run faster but drug enhancements are exactly what they are and out of all of those racers all of them tested positive for an illegal substance some just wasn't disqualified because the race had to go on.
Yes I think they should take a look.
The Greeks never invented the games or any games
He said “clean athletes.” I was a track athlete through high school and college until it ended after both of my Achilles tendons ruptured in two separate instances. I had teammates that became professionals and actually won medals at World Championships and Olympics. I read an article in Sports Illustrated in the 90s where a former track athlete was being interviewed and demanded to remain anonymous. He said, “If you win a medal clean, it will be the only one you ever win.” I was told by my friends and former teammates that was indeed the truth and proved as much by one of them testing positive and having medals and records stripped. It’s not whether they are clean or not. It’s whether they get caught or not.
At that time lots of drugs with testing where lacking not up to standard a lots of small countries don't have a chance of winning any medals. Thank God for Changes in dope testing..bigup the authorities.
No sense crying over spilled milk. You can't prove a thing in this day and age so you just have to live with it.
Steroids are proof that when you cheat …you cheat yourself.
FloJo is dead.
Look up how many bodybuilders from that era died on YOUTube…its mind blowing.
Back then? get real , everyone is on dope today, KC QB, Serena, Bolt Jamaica etc.
Who takes the most dope wins
victor konte 5 months in prison . lol. he knew too many names . top athletes .
your argument is laughable. more sophisticated drug taking nowadays and/or technology improvements have seen a huge surge in records being broken this last 2 years on the track … ?
Bruh they using now and still can't beat the records. Stop crying
See Track & Field News's footnote regarding Flo Jo's 100 m record in its listing of women's world records.
Do PEDs work? You bet they do. For an interesting read, Google "Outside Magazine Drug Test". It's an article written by a serious amateur cyclist who went on a multi-PED regime. (At a monthly cost of $3,000 and this was some time ago) Here's the intro:
“OK,” the doctor said when we settled into his examination room. “What do you want to be?”
I looked confused, so he explained.
“You want to be bigger? Leaner? Faster longer or faster shorter? More overall endurance? You want to see better?”
“See better?”
“Human growth hormone does that for some people. It improves the muscles in the eyes.” He tried again: “So, what do you want?”
T&F News:
100 10.49 Florence Griffith Joyner (US) Indianapolis, Indiana 7/16/88
[T&FN believes the 10.49 was illegally wind-aided and should never have been accepted as the WR.
We believe the real fastest is 10.54 Elaine Thompson-Herah (Jamaica) Eugene, Oregon 8/21/21]
In my opinion the mark was also steroid aided.
"Through to 1987 her 100 metres career had been prosaic; indeed going into 1988 she hadn't ranked among the top 10 in the world in the event and was rated only seventh among the Americans.
She improved by .47 of a second in one year . . . ." Source: The Irish Times, "Flo-Jo Doubts to Hold Fast", 22 Sept. 1998.
Lying Doping Mark McGwire comes to mind.
Flojo time is out of reach I know she was not clean and a lot of them not clean i don't know y them doing Drugs
ITS CALLED A MEET 🗣️
Clean or Not they still doping, changing blond, doing drugs in PRESENT TIME! BOTTOM LINE is alot of these athletes will do what ever to win, and its all dirty if you ask me…We will never know.. They all seem suspect!
I can see them wiping out all the records so the current athletes can dope and beat them again and call it progression because we’v got no where to go we peaked in all sports in the last 30 years job done ✅
They all still are. Test can't detect it anymore. You got white boys running 10.1 in highschool and people think that's natural. LOL
They acting as if it stop. People was doping then and they are still doping now. If no one was no longer doping then records would not continue to be broken. If a petson was doping when they broke the record. How you gonna break the record without doping. And if one think someone can do naturally evidently you must be slow. They just use better doping methods to hide it.
No one is saying that Flo Jo was not an elite and talented sprinter, all I am doing is putting things where they should be!.It has been already given really close to the right conditions, very similar tracks and still 35 years later those Flo Jo juiced records stand strong!. People that are juice free have come close to breaking it because of strainful and hard working training sessions but with a little push from Flo Jo's magic JUICE cocktail they would have broken it loooong time ago😂😂😂😂😂🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫
Sorry but I don't buy it, Flo competed in an era (80's) where the testing was NOT as accurate as it is today and where many athletes resorted to these enhanced juice cocktails to achieve that desirable EDGE over the competition, those are verifiable FACTS!.Are you to tell me that Flo Jo was this type of mother Teresa of the track and field that was a SAINT that never ever touched that stuff?
You see my friend in track and field (just like in any other sport) improvement is shown gradually and NOT in a sudden outburst of speed from one day to the next.As if that athlete just got possessed by the SPIRIT of Apollo and started breaking RECORDS like it was a walk in the park!.Look up her times before she set those RECORDS and you will find a huge difference between her after and before records times, elementary Dr.Watson elementary (FACTS mon FACTS ) 😉😉🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫
is this meant for complete idiots?