My intent was not to try to defend the marks made by the Chinese ... There are many reasons to "question" what was accomplished by Ma's Army ... My point, however, was that to draw suspicion upon a record because "it seemed beyond what the individual had done before or since" is not a rational reason in and of itself for questioning marks ... And too often (especially in this day and age of drugs, supplements, etc) suspicion at what is "not normal" comes all too quickly ...
Conway
Kurt had written:
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>Conway says:
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>>So I don't th ink we should bandy about disparagingly regarding any
>>record
>>simply beause it is so much better than the individual did before
>>...
>>Because most records end up being that way ...<<<
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>I don't disagree, but you seem to be forgetting that there was a lot
>more to
>the Chinese Explosion back in '93 than simply a few unexpectedly
>good
>performances that were never repeated. It was also the amazing
>depth of the
>performances by the Chinese women. Chinese women coming in second
>and third
>were also smashing the old WRs.
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>I quote from the Dec '93 T&FNews article by Jeff Hollobaugh on the
>Chinese
>women:
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>"The Depth - If the times recorded by Qu and Wang seem
>unbelieveable, what
>happened behind them is even more so. Four other women went under
>World
>Records. Five WRs were set, but in actuality, there were 14
>performances
>under the old standard."
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>"...Consider the sudden depth of China's elite: 8 under 1:58 in the
>800; 7
>under 4:00 in the 1500; 5 under 8:22 in the 3000; 11 under 31:33 in
>the
>10,000. The corresponding numbers at the World Champs, with
>virtually all
>the best on the planet in attendance, were 3,0,0, and 6."
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>This is a much different phenomenon from the WRs you list. This was
>more
>than just unexpected. This was wholesale slaughter of a bunch of
>WRs by an
>entire team.
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>Kurt Bray
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