Hi All
Kristiansen may be right that 29:30 is out of the range of modern day clean
athletes, but if she is suggesting that no clean woman will ever be able to
run 29:45 at any point in the future then yes, she is "full of crap" because
she can't know that.
However, I don't think she is saying that. She thinks that the Chinese women
were doped and that as such their records are beyond the reach of today's
runners, like Radcliffe, who are clean.
Of course, this position tends to rely on assuming that the vast majority of
Chinese women are doped and the vast majority of non-Chinese women are
clean. I have little problem with the former; the latter seems like a
problematic position to me.
Justin
PS. Bear in mind that it was Kristiansen's record which Wang obliterated.
She's not exactly a dispassionate observer.
> ----------
> From: Mcewen, Brian T
> Reply To: Mcewen, Brian T
> Sent: Monday, April 9, 2001 2:24 pm
> To: Track & Field
> Subject: RE: t-and-f: Kristiansen's 'clean' doubt
>
> <<< Kristiansen, who set the current European record of 30:13.74, doubts
> the
> 29:31.78 of China's Wang Junxia will be bettered by an athlete not under
> suspicion of using illegal substances.
>
> The Norwegian believes the record of Wang is out of the reach of
> Radcliffe.
> "No, I don't think that will be possible. I think 29 minutes 45 seconds is
> possible for a `clean' female athlete," said Kristiansen. >>>
>
>
> I have been told, more times than I care to remember, that I am not the
> one
> to predict or set limits on human endurance. I have been told many times,
> that it is reasonable for 10k runners from 1994 to 1998 to lap the world's
> greatest runners from just 10 years earlier.
>
> Any of you that have "set me straight", care to tell Ingrid Kristiansen
> that
> she is full of crap? And, as long as all she has is her own suspicions
> that
> she should keep quiet?
>
>
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