Olympics Thread
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@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
@virgil said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
Women's 400m WR is held by a, checks notes, East German from 1985. Ridiculous that is still an official record.
There’s a few track and field records from the 70s and 80s from the Eastern Block that are still current today.
It's not just the Eastern Block countries, but that era, and into the 1990s. Randy Barnes, the US shot putter was juiced and his WR from 1990 was only broken this year by Crowser.
American sprinters...
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@antipodean Just say Carl Lewis.
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@virgil said in Olympics Thread:
A quick glance at current Track and Field WR and heres the ones that its hard not to think hmmmm (based on prejudice and deep seated suspicions of course..)
Mens Hammer throw - Russian 1986
Mens Discus - East German 1986Womans 400m - East German 1985
Womans 800m - Czech 1983
Womans High jump - Bulgarian 1987
Womans Long Jump - Russian 1988
Womans Shot Put - Russian 1987
Womans Discus - East German 1987
Womans 10km Walk - Russian 1990
Womans 4 x 400 Relay - Russian 1988
Womans 4 x 800 Relay - Russian 1984Men dont seem so dodgy, most records these days have been broken in the last 20 years.
But the woman, amazing how many records were set in the mid-late 80's and have never been broken since...1987/1988 seems especially to have been the height of the drug i mean track and field program..
Some of those records no one has come near to since, nowhere near.
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@virgil said in Olympics Thread:
A quick glance at current Track and Field WR and heres the ones that its hard not to think hmmmm (based on prejudice and deep seated suspicions of course..)
Mens Hammer throw - Russian 1986
Mens Discus - East German 1986Womans 400m - East German 1985
Womans 800m - Czech 1983
Womans High jump - Bulgarian 1987
Womans Long Jump - Russian 1988
Womans Shot Put - Russian 1987
Womans Discus - East German 1987
Womans 10km Walk - Russian 1990
Womans 4 x 400 Relay - Russian 1988
Womans 4 x 800 Relay - Russian 1984Men dont seem so dodgy, most records these days have been broken in the last 20 years.
But the woman, amazing how many records were set in the mid-late 80's and have never been broken since...1987/1988 seems especially to have been the height of the drug i mean track and field program..
Most of those women had more testosterone than Laurel Hubbard...
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@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
@virgil said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
Women's 400m WR is held by a, checks notes, East German from 1985. Ridiculous that is still an official record.
There’s a few track and field records from the 70s and 80s from the Eastern Block that are still current today.
It's not just the Eastern Block countries, but that era, and into the 1990s. Randy Barnes, the US shot putter was juiced and his WR from 1990 was only broken this year by Crowser.
American sprinters...
Canadian sprinters
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@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
@virgil said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
Women's 400m WR is held by a, checks notes, East German from 1985. Ridiculous that is still an official record.
There’s a few track and field records from the 70s and 80s from the Eastern Block that are still current today.
It's not just the Eastern Block countries, but that era, and into the 1990s. Randy Barnes, the US shot putter was juiced and his WR from 1990 was only broken this year by Crowser.
Yep saw that too, other countries with the USA sprinters etc in the 80s wouldnt be much better then the others.
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@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@virgil said in Olympics Thread:
A quick glance at current Track and Field WR and heres the ones that its hard not to think hmmmm (based on prejudice and deep seated suspicions of course..)
Mens Hammer throw - Russian 1986
Mens Discus - East German 1986Womans 400m - East German 1985
Womans 800m - Czech 1983
Womans High jump - Bulgarian 1987
Womans Long Jump - Russian 1988
Womans Shot Put - Russian 1987
Womans Discus - East German 1987
Womans 10km Walk - Russian 1990
Womans 4 x 400 Relay - Russian 1988
Womans 4 x 800 Relay - Russian 1984Men dont seem so dodgy, most records these days have been broken in the last 20 years.
But the woman, amazing how many records were set in the mid-late 80's and have never been broken since...1987/1988 seems especially to have been the height of the drug i mean track and field program..
Most of those women had more testosterone than Laurel Hubbard...
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@stargazer 2nd OR of the day too
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@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
Where is the kayak race?
Why is it not on? They were getting ready now nothing?
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
@cyclops said in Olympics Thread:
Although they do the same at every other sport too so I guess you can't really call it 'moneyball'. Not sure what the rest of the schedule is like but they're holding onto their lead at the top of the leaderboard pretty handily at the moment.
Say what you like about communism, but by god it turns into medals.
Just ask the Germans. East Germany won 35 gold in 1988. Germany currently has 6 I think. They’ve gone from about 12 gold in the pool to 1 bronze.
It did fuck the country doing it. All those resources put to work, but no bread for the people
Actually East Germany had enough food and was the “best” communist country by some way. East Germans I know always said they had plenty of cash but nothing to buy. But obviously in comparison to the West it was a complete joke. Just look at cars. The West had Mercedes, BMW, Audi, VW etc. The East had…the Trabant… And of course there was the small matter of being spied on all the time and machine gunned if they tried to leave.
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@canefan mate no time to walk away and make a cuppa!
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i am now a Ukranian long jump supporter
