Athletics Weekly

I think 80m is a strong possibility for one of the elite [particularly Lysenko] to achieve in the next few years It begs believe to think what the WR would be if the Hammer was introduced to Women in the '70s. I mean with all that went on with the Eastern Europeans [22.66m SP, 76.80m DT, 80.00m JT, ...

Gunnell was only good because it was a new and fairly weak event. You're down to 3. her time is still damn good ! 52.74 was beaten a coupla years after by the 2 yanks in 52.61 & ~ 52.65, & that stood just until a coupla years ago when that dodgy, 1/2-hurdling ruskie ran a ~ 52.3 gunnell's t...