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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Carl Lewis probably was not clean anyways...he popped for three stimulants at the '88 Trials and gave the old cold medicine excuse (maybe not such an old excuse at the time).
The 8th fastest man in 2024 is one hundredth of a second faster than the fastest man 36 years ago...sounds pretty reasonable to me.
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That's my point, '88 is regarded as the dirtiest Olympics ever (at least in athletics), and now the best runners of that era would merely be average now. I understand the advancements in diet, training, tracks, etc, but IMO that alone wouldn't get athletes under the times of the super juiced era without also being on some sort of PED. They're just much better at hiding it now. Same with baseball, there's no way a normal ball player will ever reach Bonds-McGuire-Sosa type HR numbers without also taking some sort of enhancements