I think what you are missing Drax is that you are looking at the world through a “scientists eyes”. I am not saying that this is a bad thing, but just a personal opinion. You say, this equation says that a person can only lift so much weight and only run so fast. (On a side note, science also says that humming birds can’t fly, can’t explain the migration of monarchs, and say ice worms should freeze.) Read an article by Dave Tate, before he went to Westside he was told that it was impossible for him to lift any more weight (confirmed by several different exercise psyoligists), I’m sure you can fill in the details. Scientists also said that no one could run under a 4 minute mile. Equations are just that, equations, ever take an exercise psy. class? Most of them are bullshit and don’t even come close. Ever heard of a BMI? It has to be one of the stupidist things in the field. The Ben Johnson arguement is also ridiculas, how often does a Lance Armstrong come along (he has the highest VO2 of anyone ever tested)? The fact is steriods have been around (widely available, to athletes at least) since the 70’s, now ask yourself, how much have the records improved since then (a whole hell of a lot), how much have steriods and steriod info improved since then? (I don’t think anyone would say that it has improved a significant amount since the 80’s.) Which is a lot like the record books. Wake up and smell the coffee Drax, get your head out of the text books and do a little independant thinking. And one more thing, you might want to actually read the articles written by Francis (at least on this site), no where in any of them does it say that the majority of olympic level athletes are “clean”.
Do the russians etc still focus as much on weight training now as they did in durring the cold war. I bet someone could make an argument that because training etc has become deinstitutionalised and with the end of the USSR and the cold war that THAT is the reason for the records not being beat rather than less drug use. Anything can be argued with just a few facts if the writer words it well.
The stuff in that article is hard evidence while the stuff in Charlie Francis’ articles (from what I’ve read) is basically just ‘he did this, he did that’ which I don’t buy. He can say what he wants about his own athletes but anyone can say anything about someone else, whether it’s fact or not, not to mention how biased it is. It’s obvious what the women sprinters do with their long pointy fingernails & there’s no test for that or swimmers shooting helium up their asses, etc. I think to just say that all weightlifters are nothing but juice monkeys while totally ignoring the fact that no weightlifters have come close to what the records were 13yrs ago makes no sense.