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Originally Posted by tarheeljks
What was Radcliffe mad about
when ayana did something similar in rio, radcliffe (and a bunch of other commentators) implied shenanigans
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Originally Posted by paula
‘I’m not sure that I can understand that,’ she said, ‘When I saw the world record set in 1993, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. And Ayana has absolutely blitzed that time.’
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Originally Posted by brendan foster
You see things pushed along sometimes — you think of Bob Beamon in the long jump,’ he said, ‘but I’m not sure what to make of that.’
‘When world records are being beaten by the length of a straight you have to question it a little bit.’
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Originally Posted by sonia o sullivan
‘She’s broken a world record by 14 seconds,’ she said. ‘That’s a record many people have questioned for many years. It was set 23 years ago by the Chinese. How can you break the world record so easily like that and not look very tired after it?
this time they did not turn to paula for comment (according to some fella on twitter, i cant remember who did the analysis myself) despite her being the bbc's distance running talking head