I agree, but it's water under the bridge.
I don't know about the HOF women users, but the men had theirs.
Like Fran, I felt a similarway about Eric Heiden in Speed skating.... Because my personal Prejudices.
I was 9 yrs older than Eric at the time he was 5 Olympic golds.
I was the best indoor short track speed skater in the US in the early sixties.
As I grew, I always kept up with the sport, we always heard about this Eric Heiden kid.
This is the era right before drug tests & steroids came to sports.
Eric won, the shorts, the mediums and the longs?
This is a winter sport.....
My prejudice, like Frans with chemical warfare HOF players is this.
Isiah Bolt, the Jamaican runner fastest man on the planet, I think in the 500 and the 1000 meters.
BOLT.... He never competed, in the 1500/5000/or10000.meter races.
My sporting prejudice makes me think this way about this moment in time.
In speed skating, like track, no single speed skater, or Track Star has ever won the shorts, mediums and the longs.
We learned, You need a different body to accomplish that.
The 500 and 1500 are quite different than the 5 and 10K.
I thought, he Must of been using steroids, my reasons as to why his physical/body was able to will ALL divisions.
But from a more mature perspective that I have now, he was more likely at the transition point in our sport where summer training was in put into place.
In the 50's we only skated in the winters, so he may of been in that perfect time/slot of evolution of sports, to be able to win the Short/Med/Longs by summer cross training and good coaching.
Winters were long, cold/damp/snowy in WI and Chicago in the 50-60's.
I don't know about the HOF women users, but the men had theirs.
Like Fran, I felt a similarway about Eric Heiden in Speed skating.... Because my personal Prejudices.
I was 9 yrs older than Eric at the time he was 5 Olympic golds.
I was the best indoor short track speed skater in the US in the early sixties.
As I grew, I always kept up with the sport, we always heard about this Eric Heiden kid.
This is the era right before drug tests & steroids came to sports.
Eric won, the shorts, the mediums and the longs?
This is a winter sport.....
| 1980 Lake Placid | 500 m | |
| 1980 Lake Placid | 1000 m |
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| 1980 Lake Placid | 1500 m |
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| 1980 Lake Placid | 5000 m |
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| 1980 Lake Placid | 10000 m |
My prejudice, like Frans with chemical warfare HOF players is this.
Isiah Bolt, the Jamaican runner fastest man on the planet, I think in the 500 and the 1000 meters.
BOLT.... He never competed, in the 1500/5000/or10000.meter races.
My sporting prejudice makes me think this way about this moment in time.
In speed skating, like track, no single speed skater, or Track Star has ever won the shorts, mediums and the longs.
We learned, You need a different body to accomplish that.
The 500 and 1500 are quite different than the 5 and 10K.
I thought, he Must of been using steroids, my reasons as to why his physical/body was able to will ALL divisions.
But from a more mature perspective that I have now, he was more likely at the transition point in our sport where summer training was in put into place.
In the 50's we only skated in the winters, so he may of been in that perfect time/slot of evolution of sports, to be able to win the Short/Med/Longs by summer cross training and good coaching.
Winters were long, cold/damp/snowy in WI and Chicago in the 50-60's.
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world, but it's coming.
