Thrump wrote:
And yet several US postal riders, not just Lance, suddenly became top ten grand tour contenders. Sounds eerily familiar to the US winning medals in the 800, 1500(2) Steeple(2), 5000, marathon in 2016? You guys are fools if you think that the only American athletes breaking the rules and taking advantage of stealth technology are cyclists and NOP members.
+1
So where are we now? Last time the fanbois claimed that Salazar only doped Magness, and pretended that was ok because Magness - though competing in turkey trots - was not a professional runner.
Now we learned that Ritz and Tara were doped too, and likely Rupp, who evidently lied about his injections (of still unknown volumes). Fanbois are getting a bit quieter, and start claiming that Salazar did not use EPO (without evidence), i.e. may not be as bad as others.
So, why is there no action from USADA?
- they are still trying to get more evidence, to get bigger fish than Ritz and Tara
or
- they are protecting their own, in order to not damage our reputation
Note that we only know about Ritz because of the hackers...