There are a lot of questionable people out there, so who would you want to know is for sure clean/dirty?
There are a lot of questionable people out there, so who would you want to know is for sure clean/dirty?
I know what happened in 2003 will forever be questioned, and it's a guy that some regard as genuine, like able, pure, etc, but Bernard Lagat. For sure. If he is busted, I have literally no faith. The 2003 mishap alone has me very skeptical. For the presence he has in the sport in a positive way, I would have to know if he was just a big Lance.
hmmm....
probably rudisha
he's probably the only immortal distance runner out there - the only guy people will be talking about in 50 yrs. Would be good to know he's clean.
well maybe not the ONLY immortal, but one of a very small group.
Historically, El G, Geb and Bekele obvi - I'm assuming El G and Bekele were dirty and Geb was clean but that is probably a useless way to look at it.
Rupp, easily. I need to know whether it was actually possible for a white man to beat the Bekele brothers without doping.
Mo Farah
Michael Johnson. My favorite T&F. A great guy on and off the track. He was dominate in a very dirty time. It would be interesting to know.
Kenenisa Bekele or El Guerrouj .....if I had to choose I'd say Bekele since he has the 5k/10k WR
We all know who is the dirtiest cheat ever, and we don't need to see any more tests.
Jarmila Kratochvilova. If she were proven clean, nobody would know what to think.
Bolt.
Rudisha... obviously
Bad Wigins wrote:
Jarmila Kratochvilova. If she were proven clean, nobody would know what to think.
Haha, I like your angle.
Probably Coe because I admire him so much. His training was so rigorous, and he was so great at both 800m and 1500m on the world stage. I would really like to know if his intense training was the reason for his success rather than drugs.
Makhloufi, for the sake of Manzano, and because he lied about being hurt to get reinstated in the 1500 in the first place.
TAA wrote:
Michael Johnson. My favorite T&F. A great guy on and off the track. He was dominate in a very dirty time. It would be interesting to know.
Doped to the eyeballs
He gave me a good laugh when he said Oscars pistorius shouldn't be allowed in the London 400m final because he had an unfair advantage over the other competitors
Having said that, pistorius was on steroids and had the prosthetic
I can't believe the thread is this old without someone else mentioning him, but Geb. My faith in the sport rests on a knife's edge, really. There are a few people, who, probably iirationally, I sometimes think are clean and so let me think that the top level of the sport is accesible without chemical help- Geb is at the top of that list. I'm pretty sure he wasn't, but if KNEW he was.... I could enjoy watching the Olympics again in the same way I did when I was a teenager, when I thought only sprinters and a rare few distance runners were cheats. If I KNEW Geb was a cheat, I could probably stop watching or caring about the top level completely.
Geb.
Probably Bekele. I have always thought it was possible he could be clean, but I would like to know for sure and the answer to this would shape my view on several other runners.
Radcliffe
Has to be one of the all-time greats: El G, Bekele, Geb
It then becomes:
If they are clean, it's very possible that all other performances behind them are clean.
If they are dirty, all bets are off. Can't really give medals to the next guys as they were likely doping too.
I don't really care or not. If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'.
Bolt