Athletics Weekly

With the best time since 1992 Sally Pearson was the athlete of the games for me - I never thought i'd see an athlete get under 12.3 for 100mH and only 0.07 off the world record there is already much talk of that run being the "world record" in a similar vein to the chinese 1500/3000/10000...

While I'm mot in any way dismissing any of the explanation suggested by other people her, the fact that all those amazing results were set on local meetings, without any real inspection by foreigners, made me think of another scenario. Are we sure these people actually run the full distance? The mos...