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The pursuit of the sub-2 marathon: Where to next?
Yesterday, I started writing what was going to be a shorter piece for a magazine or newspaper here in SA, but as sometimes happens, it turned into a long one, so I’m publishing it here instead....
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Letter to BJSM reinforcing call for retraction of IAAF research on...
[ribbon toplink=true]Retraction Warranted: Unreliable Data and Findings in IAAF-sponsored Research in BJSM[/ribbon] Roger Pielke, Jr., University of Colorado Boulder Ross Tucker, University of Cape...
View ArticleThe aging of elite performance: “Geriatric champions” and have the rules for...
Yesterday, I was sent this link. It says that Dwain Chambers, he of THG and a doping ban in 2004 (!), is making a comeback, hoping to qualify for Team GB at the European Indoor Championships. At the...
View ArticleShort Thought on Sport: Asbel Kiprop’s “positive test” and a chance for the...
I’m back with a short thought on sport! Turns out these haven’t always been short enough to allow me to do them as often as I’d have liked, apologies. But let’s see how this one goes! So Asbel Kiprop...
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Asbel Kiprop banned for four years: The Final Decision and anti-doping insights
So Asbel Kiprop was handed a four-year ban over the weekend, for his EPO-positive from November 2017. I shared a few thoughts on it over the Easter Weekend, but wanted to expand them a little here in...
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We need to talk about East African runners and general trust vs skepticism in...
It’s the London Marathon this week. It will almost certainly be won by an athlete from east Africa. In both the men’s and women’s races. After all, it’s been 16 years since a non-east African won the...
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A short thought on sport: Evaluating Eliud. Is Kipchoge a next-gen 2:02...
I want to try to explain the conceptual problem for the integrity of runing performance because of the potential of a shoe to enhance performance by upwards of 2%. Let me try to do this by asking you...
View ArticleOn DSDs, the theory of testosterone, performance the CAS ruling on Caster...
Prepare for a long read. Do it in instalments if it helps! I’ve written it as a list, I don’t know if that helps or hinders. But these are my thoughts, start to finish, on the DSD in sport issue, as...
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Running shoe tech: The Emperor’s clothes, and the issues for the integrity of...
It’s been so long since I wrote anything here, I fear I’ve forgotten how. All I’ve written in the last few months is academic analysis of concussion data for scientific journals, so here’s hoping this...
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