Chinese national games are this year, and they are usually held in Sept.
Stay tuned.
Oleg
> If the training reports were anywhere close to correct, no one has trained
> anywhere near as hard as they did either. Certainly the drugs allow for
> greater trainging, but I also suspect that few, if any, women have even
> tried to train with the volume or intensity that they did. How many
> people (men included) have the mental toughness to do 20-mile hard runs on
> the track, hitting specific 400m splits the whole way?
>
> And then workout again in the afternoon...
>
> It could be that the Chinese runners we saw where the few who could
> survive and respond to the training. But then again, no one thought 800m
> guys could run weekly 22-milers over hilly terrain at a hard effort either
> before Lydiard and Snell came along.
>
> BTW, should not the Chinese National Games have been this year or are they
> next year? Since those are more improtant than the Olympics to the
> Chinese we should see another round of incredible times.
>
> Paul
>
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Michael Contopoulos wrote:
>
> > Why haven't the performances of the Chinese women been duplicated yet? Of
> > course they were on drugs, but so are plenty of women now (or maybe
> > not????). I mean, they obliterated the record books. An epo'd Yegorova is
> > still 20 seconds back in the 3k (no disrespect to those who think she is
> > innocent). I mean, there must have been more to their times than just
> > drugs, no? I swear to God, maybe, like Mt Sac, the tracks in Beijing and
> > Shanghai are short. Maybe Junxia Wang ran a lap short for her 10k record?
> >
> > M
> >
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