1:53:98 is a true clean world record in women’s 800m.
Two quicker statistics results:
1980 – Nadezhda Olizarenko, USSR, Olympic Champion Moscow-80, 1:53:43
1983 – Yarmila Kratokhvilova, Czechoslovakia, current “record breaker”, 1:53:28
Germany and the Czech Republic declassified the archives of their local KGBs: Stasi and StB.
And there are a lot of documents about the state doping program in GDR and less structured, but also massed doping in Czechoslovakia.
Kratokhvilova was spied on by anabolics to the maximum and turned herself into a real monster. I won’t post her photos from those years, it’s horrible and anti-advertising sports.
Russia, in a short period of freedom, did not open the archives of the KGB and the CPSU. But Soviet professional and amateur sports since the 1970s was also all imbued with doping under the cover and on the instructions of the country’s sports and political leadership and intelligence agencies.
There were probably separate “rebels”, but Olizarenko certainly did not relate to them.
Anti-doping was in its initial state at those times, and all samples of the “cleanest Olympics” Moscow-80 were just pouring into Yauza.
That is why Kratihvilova’s “record” has been standing for 43 years and it has only appeared in the eyes of modern runners.
Can we be sure that Vero is not “sitting” on doping?
From my point of view, Verro is a pure athlete with a 97% probability.
I leave 3% for statistical emissions, practically.
Current anti-doping is the best monitoring of all time in athletics. Switzerland is a country with a very low level of corruption, and the likelihood of doping fraud is in direct correlation with the level of corruption in the country.
Verro is 22 years old and we, specialists in running, have known it for a long time. Audrey is European champion among the U20 and U23 youth.
Vice champion of the world U20
Diamond League-25 Final Winner.
This year’s indoor world vice champion.
Her results are growing steadily.
Audrey was born in Switzerland in 2004, father Swiss, mother from Cote d’Ivoire.
182 height and long legs: the perfect combination for running fast.
Genetics are crazy.
And what else allowed us to show the result, so close to the doping “records”?
1. Modern technology of running shoes. Restrictions are much stricter in spike than in road racers, but super foam and carbon plates play a big role here as well. Super slippers help a lot in training, too.
2. State of the art stadiums. The current Mondo is much more resilient than the 80s tartan, which seemed to me a miracle after the hailstorm I started running on.
3. Nutrition. Modern understanding of sports nutrition provides a giant increase in the stability of training and competition.
4. Training methods with the use of emergency and lactate. Modern coaches have an immeasurably large arsenal of tools for load control and recovery.
5. Understanding the female body. And here is a breakthrough in sports recently. Finally, coaches started to understand that women are not weak men, but a body with different physiology in many ways.
And also: the prestige of women’s sport is much higher, so more and more very talented girls are coming into the sport, although there is still a lot to work on. However, track and field here has always been the best, which is why I especially love it.
Everybody should run!