Less Drug Use in the Marathon?

Bilal Mohamed wrote:

why can't everyone accept the fact that the africans are great runners? No one was complaining when the americans were on top. The best athletes in the NFL, and NBA are black whose ancestors are from africa. I do not see anyone complaining about them. Everything great is not american.

Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki are black! I need to adjust the tint on my new TV!

BTW, we all came from Africa.

luv2run wrote:

Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki are black! I need to adjust the tint on my new TV!

BTW, we all came from Africa.

Nash and Nowitzki are two of the best players, but they are not two of the best athletes. Nash isn't even in the top 50 in the league of best athletes.

Some Joker You Don't Know wrote:

By agreeing with the statement, he's basically implying that foreigners are all dirty and Americans are all clean.

The recent world history of doping revelations and convictions certainly does not support this. Since the fall of the GDR, the US has become the world leader in doping.

Hornissimo wrote:

Some Joker You Don't Know wrote:

By agreeing with the statement, he's basically implying that foreigners are all dirty and Americans are all clean.

The recent world history of doping revelations and convictions certainly does not support this. Since the fall of the GDR, the US has become the world leader in doping.

Which is why I think the theory is completely unsupported.

What's your standard for athlete? Vertical jump? If that's the case we could always throw in Keith van Horn and his 40 inch vertical. If it's not vertical jump then I can't see how you would declare that Nash and Nowitzki are not two of the best athletes in the league. Nash changes direction as quickly as anyone, and he's an absurdly accurate passer. But that doesn't have anything to do with athleticism? Nowitzki is the 2nd most athletic 7 footer I've ever seen (behind only Garnett). He can bring the ball up and take lots of smaller guys off the dribble.

Hornissimo wrote:

Some Joker You Don't Know wrote:

By agreeing with the statement, he's basically implying that foreigners are all dirty and Americans are all clean.

The recent world history of doping revelations and convictions certainly does not support this. Since the fall of the GDR, the US has become the world leader in doping.

john meyer: are going to apologize?

you implied that non-american win because they are cheaters, without evidence.

if as a running community, we are really interested in getting ride of drugs, we should think twice before making sweeping statements about doping, just because he or she is from another country -- other than yours. leave those patriotic chants to fox news (or whatever news agency in your country).