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letsrun.com wrote:
You mentioned people offered you drugs. Was this athletes? Agents?
They were athletes. They were my competitors. They didn’t have no shame in letting me know they cheated. I knew they were cheating because the coach that they were with was known as a cheater. I’m not even going to say names, but in fact, he got banned for life because majority of his athletes cheated and he got caught. So he got banned for life. And this particular athlete was under that coach.
Was this a European?
Not to throw Kenya under the bus, but this particular athlete was a Kenyan athlete. You put the pieces together, you’ll figure it out. I just don’t want to say names. And I’ve said his name before, I’ve told this story a thousand times, I’ve said his name before. I don’t want to say too much more because stuff happened that was personal and I don’t want to [inaudible] on them wounds. He did what he did and paid the price for what he did. But at the same time, you steal from other athletes when you cheat. That’s the thing we’ve gotta try to fix in this sport. Because you have athletes that want to try to make a living and want to try to do well with hard work but then you have these athletes that cheat and they get caught and then they get a weak ban of one year, two years, whatever the ban is, and then they come back and they just find a better way to cheat and they get away with it again.
Johnny Gray's response to the drug question kind of sounds as though Gray is saying there were a bunch of athletes (mostly Kenyans) running faster than him in his prime and were "offering him" drugs so he can run fast too, but according to this site (
http://www.alltime-athletics.com/m_800ok.htm), there's only 1 Kenyan athlete with a better time than Gray's in the 1980s. Gray's prime was probably in mid 1980s as he set the AR in 1985 "(Editor’s note: Gray was the fourth man in history to break 1:43)" One would expect that the "athletes offering" him drugs were some of the athletes with faster times than Gray's and they would share their "secret" with Gray so he can get to their level or "1:40" runner, but there was only 1 Kenyan athlete who ran faster than Gray in all 1980s. Was this 1 athlete or his coach caught for cheating? And banned for life?
No other Kenyan really ran near Gray's times until after Gray's prime (mid 1990s).
- THINK ABOUT IT: Only 1 Kenyan athlete runs faster than Gray's PR in all 1980s and this particular Kenyan athlete ONLY broke 1:43 ONCE, but Gray ran sub 1:43 FOUR times, and yet Gray is considered the "clean" guy in that era, at least more cleaner than Kenyans???