Last year the complete Russian 1500 m women's team for Beijing was taken out for drug use. Their replacements still posted some good times this year (but never below 3:58). Seeing Anna Alminova fade miserably during the last 100m in Zurich and posting a good, but not spectacular 4:01:15, made me think, well, maybe she's actually clean. It just seems obvious that the American team may be more suspicious than the Russian one, this year. Have things changed?