G.L.Piggy [at] gmail.com
Recent Comments
- MGE on Race and Jury in Zimmerman
- nikcrit on Race and Jury in Zimmerman
- nikcrit on Race and Jury in Zimmerman
- Georgia Boy on What’s Lacking in Women’s Basketball?
- Lara on Race and Jury in Zimmerman
- GT66 on Dad story at GMP
GLP Approved
- Captain Capitalism
- Dalrock
- Dennis Mangan
- Econ Log
- Elusive Wapiti
- Foseti
- Hawaiian Libertarian
- HBD Bibliography
- Heartiste
- Lion of the Blogosphere
- Marginal Revolution
- Matt Forney
- Randall Parker
- Razib Khan
- Reihan Salam
- Roosh V
- Simon Grey
- SOBL
- Steve Sailer
- The Last Psychiatrist
- The Spearhead
- Thrasymachus
- Ulysses
- Vox Day
Tweet Tweet
Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.
The slate article on the long jump never mentions that Beamon jumped 29 ft in the thinner, elevated air of Mexico and that he broke the record by over 1 full foot, which was not touched for over 20 years. Powell and Lewis might have been super specimens. When discussing a competition that involves so few people with such a unique set of circumstances (not just a sprint or swim), it can randomly come down to who is the best at that moment.
Chuck did you read Simmons’ article on swimming vs. gymnastics? I had to check it out as friends said his paragraph about Gabby Douglas read like every college prof I had gushing over a B+ black student.
Is he related to Lumpy Rutherford?
Michael Phelps’s mother is a school principal and so is mine. I was rooting for him, until I decided he had won enough medals.
I read the Simmons’ article and didn’t really take it that way. He likes Gabby better than the male swimmers because she is young, cute and female. He talked about how the male swimmers have great bodies and stamina and your wife or girlfriend knows that. I would have wondered about his sexuality if he seemed to like the swimmers better than the female gymnasts.
Perhaps improved testing for doping has been the cause of reduced long jump wining distances.
More white privilege detected at the Olympics
I don’t see how Levin can say that Rutherford looks like Tintin. Tintin was blond and round-faced, not red-headed and rectangular-faced. The tuft of hair sticking up at the forehead is about the only similarity, but it’s a weak one at that. Anyhow, I can’t really see the point in comparing Rutherford to Tintin since a) the physical comparison is weak and b) Tintin isn’t a particularly well-known point of pop culture knowledge. I don’t understand what’s so difficult about calling a red-headed British guy a red-headed British guy.
Improved drug testing is the major reason. There are many female records from the 1980s that haven’t been broken. Between 1988 and 1992 it seems testing greatly improved. Some sports still only do urine or hair testing which are not as accurate as blood testing.
Yeah. Flo-jo’s 1988 record in the women’s 200m has not even been approached since.
She also gained a visible amount of muscle.
She also died very young, like 38. That is early for someone who was in great shape, as well as retired from her sport.
Drugs for sure, sorry to say. Ben Johnson was tested and stripped, but Flo Jo was not for something even more egregious.
Even worse, she was good looking.
Lara could be replaced by a spambot and the comments section would be improved.
@Nikos
Flo-Jo? Really?
Pingback: Linkage Is Good For You – 8-12-12 | Society of Amateur Gentlemen