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    Default How athletics is still scarred by the reign of the chemical sisters

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/oly...-scarred-reign

    Interesting article on how doping has artificially inflated world record times for women's events. The best now do not come close to the best of the 80s because the the drugs being used were so much more powerful. They point out Flo Jo and her bodily changes, but her doping was never proven. Simply that her body and voice had changed in the span of a year. Marion Jones, however, was proven case.

    Th article mentions that scientific advances have made it impossible for women to use male hormones,so their times have gotten worse, and that women have more to gain from steroids than men in terms of shaving time off their records.

    ‘We know why some of those records have not been broken,’ said Franke. ‘But the fact the times are much slower now points to a significantly cleaner sport.’
    In the early Nineties a new breed of athletes appeared, this time from China. Ma Junren coached to incredible times a group of distance runners who became known as Ma’s Army. Set in 1993, Qu Yunxia’s 1500m world record of 3:50.96 still stands — and it looks safe for years to come. The fastest time since 2000 is 3:55.33, with double Olympic champion Holmes running 3:57.9 at her best.

    At the time, Ma claimed his athletes’ performances were being boosted by the consumption of turtle blood. But shortly before the 2000 Olympics, China withdrew 27 athletes from their Olympic team, including six runners trained by Ma who had tested positive for erythropoietin, the banned blood doping drug better known as EPO. Ma

    The scientific advances made in testing have made it impossible for female athletes to use male hormone drugs. Disgraced American sprinter Marion Jones used the designer steroid known as ‘the clear’ — tetrahydrogestrinone — but it was not powerful enough to propel her close to Flo-Jo’s times.
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    ‘If you take a male hormone it’s going to have a far greater effect on a female athlete,’ Boxer told Sportsmail. ‘I ran against athletes I was sure were on drugs; athletes who could not get near their best times once the Berlin Wall came down.’

    Victor Conte, the founder of the California-based BALCO laboratory that provided Dwain Chambers with his drugs, estimated that drugs can help a sprinter lower his best by 0.2sec, while a woman can shave 0.4sec off her time.

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    I read the article, its strange the IAAF/IOC and others never dropped the records of the Eastern bloc. Their own secret police files exposed the state sanctioned doping programme. Do they fear legal challenges?
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    Some of those records will never be broken especially the women's 400m record. Even watching that race on youtube you could see she was somewhere no other woman in that race had ever been.

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    Turtle blood? Really? Is there no level beneath which some of these people will not stoop?

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