Seb Coe's 800m WR seems shady to me

[Nalis]

https://screen.yahoo.com/weekend-drug-olympics-000000571.html

Trust SNL to get there first, cant watch it in the UK but must check if its on YouTube somewhere.

[Grandad.]

Majority of them are cheating sods, this is why I am not a fan of athletics in fairness. 

[Jordan]

Trust SNL to get there first, cant watch it in the UK but must check if its on YouTube somewhere.

Ahh, didn't realize it was geo-blocked

If it's off YouTube for copyright reasons, I'm sure it'll be on some Russian site or something.

[Freesolo]

Bolt as well, it's impossible for one man to be that far ahead of the human race.

 

It could never get out though, it would kill the sport.

I agree 100% the testing in Jamaica is a joke its all fixed the athletes know when they are going to be tested by the Jamaican athletics doping authorities

 

How is it suddenly over the last decade or so that all the fasted sprinters, Olympic and World Champions over 100m & 200m men and woman are all Jamaican, its very suspicious

[Darkon84]

I agree 100% the testing in Jamaica is a joke its all fixed the athletes know when they are going to be tested by the Jamaican athletics doping authorities

 

How is it suddenly over the last decade or so that all the fasted sprinters, Olympic and World Champions over 100m & 200m men and woman are all Jamaican, its very suspicious

 

Except Yohann Blake received a ban for testing positive for a stimulant,

 

As was Asafa Powell at JAMAICAS championships in 2013,

 

Steve Mullings failed not once, but twice and received a lifetime ban in 2011

 

But, ya'know, all the Jamaicans get away with cheating every time.

[separator]

In the London 2012 Olympics, the mens 800m final broke all sorts of records. The winner David Rudisha did the first ever time under 1.41 and even the last place time (GB's Andrew Osagie) would have been a gold medal winner in the the 3 previous Olympic finals. I can't believe all 8 runners were at it to get such an improvement in times.

[srbfox]

He's a Chelsea fan ain't he, absolute cheat!

[wight88]

Very close friends with William Hague by all accounts...

[WengersWingMan]

1. Well EPO doesn't help 800m anywhere near as much as longer distances, it's a borderline sprint

2. What could Coe use that would boost performance back then? Blood doping has been mentioned, steroids didn't help much otherwise the Soviet block would dominate, amphetamine would be picked up on. 

3. The East/North Africans generally aren't as good at 800m as they are at longer distances, with a few Kenyan exceptions. 

4. PEDs or not, the amount of work and effort and pain these guys go through is mind boggling. Coe is one of the hardest trainers in history and his training was very scientifically sound. Training and talent is more important than drugs, drugs are the icing on the cake