Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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And the reason that people are asking questions is that they failed to in the past when there have been other drug problems.
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And it's not just true of swimming.
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No, there's athletics, for example.
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Well, yeah.
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I mean, athletics is a great example, particularly women's athletics.
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We know that there was a huge problem with drugs in the 1980s.
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And this means there's a problem with a lot of the records set in that era.
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As Ross Tucker says, it's unlikely they'll ever be broken.
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Florence Griffiths Joyner, who was dogged by allegations of doping up until her premature death at the age of 38, her 100 metre record is 10.49.
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The closest anyone has got to that in the 24 years since is 10.64 seconds, which is a huge gap in sprinting terms.
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Yes, it's more than three tenths of a second faster than the current fastest time set by Alison Felix last month.
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That was a time of 21.69 seconds.
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The 400 and 800 metre records are equally as remarkable in terms of how far ahead they are of the current athletes' performances.
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I mean, both are held by Eastern Europeans who were competing in the 1980s, although neither tested positive for drugs and both have denied doping allegations.
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The 1500 metres is interesting too.
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This record is held by a Chinese athlete who was coached by the controversial Chinese coach Ma Junren.
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If you compare the record to the nearest non-controversial time, the Chinese runner is five seconds ahead.
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Other athletes Ma coached were banned in the 1990s after positive drugs tests, although not this particular record holder.
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Another Chinese athlete from this era, Wang Junjiai, also holds the 3,000 metres and 10,000 metres records.
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And again, they're a long way ahead of the current athlete's performances too.
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