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But they are not household names, at least in this country today. If you ask a group of randomly selected people to come up with those names in a trivia game, it probably isn't happening. You ask something about those four I mentioned, and most hypothetical teams answer correctly. I want to say that the last time I played a trivia game and Marion Jones came up, almost none of the teams remembered her.
I remember that race it was great
You could hold it at Jerryworld or Kroenke's palace if you wanted, but you're not coming close to selling them out. That's just reality.
bad bad casuals...
I mean, we all felt stupid, but the reality is that disgraced athletes are quickly forgotten unless they sold you a lot of merchandise (Armstrong) or were plastered all over the news at some point (Mark McGwire, Ben Johnson). I had totally forgotten that she went down with the Bonds ship. I did remember the coach drama. I had forgotten that it led to the clink.
Wasn't he running for Canada?
Yes. Point being, he was the original 'big' doping scandal leading to the return of a gold medal, so the whole thing was inescapable in our media.
#firstworldproblems. Troll on you pretty thing @davek.What an underwhelming venue.
This is down to Coe and his links with Nike.
Looking forward to the athletics, but the time zone is horrendous for us. 1am starts.
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The East German swim program thing blew up years after Ben Johnson. We all knew they were cheats, but this was equally true of all the weightlifters. Sports doping just wasn't much on the radar of a non-sports-nerd in the U.S. until Johnson was stripped of the 100m gold. Then, it was on the news every night for days. The NFL didn't start issuing steroid suspensions until '89, nobody cared about cycling until '86, nobody even noticed the blood doping at the '84 Olympics because it was legal, and so on.
Yep. Apparently the hotel prices are astronomical too.
It's far, far too small a city for a lengthy event like this. College athletic events generally are not sleepovers, and when they are we hold them in big cities. It's like holding the World's Fair in Knoxville, TN in 1982, which would have caused problems if anyone had still cared about the World's Fair.
She's no hero...