[Other Sport] "Reset" all athletics world records

[Bozza]

UK Athletics are proposing all world records be reset to mark the beginning of a clean era for the sport.

Other recommendations:

- World Anti Doping Agency (Wada) should maintain a public global register of all drugs tests
- If not, UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) and UK sport should take the lead by forming a British register
- The idea of a register of missed tests should also be investigated
- Change the three strikes system so that missing three tests over a longer period of time - currently 18 months - can lead to a ban
- Clean athletes to be compensated for loss of prize money by federations when drug cheats are banned and results annulled
- Minimum of eight-year bans for drug cheats so they miss two Olympic or Paralympic cycles, plus life-time bans where appropriate
- Criminalise supply or procurement of performance-enhancing drugs
- Re-name all anti-doping agencies under one umbrella. For example, Ukad would become Clean Sport UK


Would this be a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Interesting proposals. I'd wait until a minute after midnight and set the world record in a sport.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Ban Russian athletes and any other states that have a proven organised history of doping/cheating until they can prove beyond any doubt that they have changed.

 

[Bozza]

Ban Russian athletes and any other states that have a proven organised history of doping/cheating until they can prove beyond any doubt that they have changed.

Russia are currently banned aren't they?

 

[halbpro]

Resetting records seems like a good way to earn a bit of cash too right? Much higher potential to set records surely draws attention and punters?

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Russia are currently banned aren't they?

After a quick google search apparently the answer is yes! Must have missed that news

 

[brightn'ove]

"Reset" all athletics world records

It's easy. Set up an athletics 'premier league' headed up by Sky and all records previous to this shall be ignored/forgotten.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I'd be devastated for one reason.

In future years, when people talk about Usain Bolt, people would call him "that bloke who set records in the non-clean era".

On the belief that he was clean and that he was just the best athlete I will EVER see, that's pretty sad to me.

 

[Birdie Boy]

Commentator: that's a new world record that is 5 minutes slower than the previous one set last week!

They will all be compared with previous records so never forgotten and how about world records that were set by non cheating ba$tard$?

 

[Eddiespearritt]

Well done UK Athletics for at least setting an agenda. I'm personally fed up with the FIFA style sports politics of wholesome denial and pretending none of it ever happened - and appealing to every possible authority to enable prologation of the sleaze. Seb Coe's first few months at the IAAF have seemed similar - OK finally I'll stop taking money from Nike because you push me - Ok I'll remove my right hand man who was clearly involved in the cover-up of Russian doping because you've revealed it - and no doubt much more to come.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Can they be certain that the new "clean" era will start with all clean athletes? Until then it's a bit pointless, but at least UK athletics are trying to do something.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I'd hope there was a record for all proven drug takers too. Surely that'll then be a goal for all clean athletes. I'd push myself harder in the pool if I was to meet the speed of a chap on barracuda amphetamines.

 

[knocky1]

Bull. An attempt to salvage the 2017 IAAF World Championshipx in London. uK Athletics need to look at their own athletes before they castigate other nations' athletes.

 

[Frutos]

I'd be devastated for one reason.

In future years, when people talk about Usain Bolt, people would call him "that bloke who set records in the non-clean era".

On the belief that he was clean and that he was just the best athlete I will EVER see, that's pretty sad to me.

Absolutely this.

Why should his achievements be tarnished by the cheating of others?