Yesterday, I wrote: >Is there any database available that would show how frequently all under-18 >athletes who were tested have been found to have used banned substances? > >For now, the best source I have available for approaching an answer to that >question is the one-year data provided in Peter Matthews' 2003 edition of >the ATFS Athletics Annual. There, he lists the athletes suspended by the >IAAF for drug violations in 1992 . . .
Sheesh. That should have been 2002, of course. Not that it's unusual, these days, for my memory to be running ten years behind. Cheers Oh, and yes, I do agree with Mike Prizy's suggestion, today, that these should be described as "world best" performances and not as world records.
