After seeing Shericka Jacksons physique, I was looking stuff up. I'm almost happy to not see white girls running with these beasts.
I mean, I know it's a dead horse at this point, but I saw this post on another site and thought it was interesting.
I think it's time for a thread on this topic. A commenter on another thread wrote:
"The Jamaicans clean ? I think more likely than the Americans are not clean: look at the history. Their college system is an open question with the most incredible sudden improvements every year and it does not test a check in line fully with WADA requirements.The Jamaica trio will eventually retire and things will return to the USA general dominance. After all, what's with the great Mens Jamaican sprinters of 10 years ago. They are a great sprinting nation for such a small nation"
That's a hilarious thing to say. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was basically an 11.30 (100)-24.10 (200) runner before she joined Stephen Francis' training group and, as ALL of his female trainees, showed up with braces... one year later she was the fastest woman in the world. Elaine Thompson was, as a 22yo, a 11.40 (100)-23.70 (200) runner before she joined Stephen Francis and showed up with braces... a little more than one year later she ran 21.66... Shericka Jackson was a 23.30 (200)-53.30 (400) runner when she joined Francis and, SHOCKINGLY with braces on, a couple of years later she was a medalist at the WC in the 400, and she is now the fastest woman in the world.
I could continue with Melaine Walker, Sherone Simpson, et al, but I think you get the drill. With a more or less none-existent out-of-competition testing program for many years, and the fact that every athlete is allowed to "miss" 2 tests every year, Francis and certain other "super coaches" in Jamaica should be viewed with strong suspicion, to say the least. By all means, criticise the Americans if you feel like it. But don't give me "the Jamaicans are the true, clean, World Record holders" bullcr*p. If anything, I'd say DAS is probably much closer to the "true" 200 meter world record holder than all of the Stephen Francis products are.