Shame Game wrote:
What irritates me is the selectivity of the Brojos doping shmears. Rupp is dirty but Jager is clean despite similar performances and WADA reports. Radcliffe is a workhorse but Shobukva is a cheater even though neither athlate tested positive for EPO but both had highly suspicious ABPs.
Canova is a genius but Aden is a drug-pusher despite similar history with dirty athletes and miracle performances.
Letsrun gives media friendly athletes/coaches VIP treatment but hound-dogs anybody who appears standoffish.
Gotta disagree on the Rupp to Jager comparison. That's like saying,"Trump is in real estate and has bad fake hair and my dad is in real estate and has no hair, so they're equally shady."
Jager does not have a coach who's known him since he was 16, who admitted (almost pointlessly) that he used drugs during his own active career, who walks around with topical testosterone in a tubey-tube, and who encouraged Jager to use testosterone as a teenager. And that's apart from all of the other allegations by other athletes against Salazar, and the IV solution shenanigans, etc., etc. Ba-BOOM!
I don't think the Brojos have disproportionately gone after the NOP or Rupp, given the slew of stories about those dirty dirtbags in the real media. If Jager's group became the focus of tracky-track running's answer to Watergate, and the Brojos clammed up, that would be telling.
I'm with you on Radcliffe, but I doubt the Brojos think she's clean either. They, along with most of the rest of the world, are not in a position to push the issue. But talk to anyone with a smidgen of knowledge and no bias toward or against Radcliffe, and they will tell you they think the 2:15:25 is as diiiiiiiiirty as Hillary's pussyhat.
Canova is a joke, well, not a joke because he ruthlessly does what he can do make bank off fast marathoners, so he's successful. But people are thrown off by the fact that he knows a ton about marathon training, legit. But I don't know why people think that means he's not all about the doping, as if it's EITHER Renato is shady OR he's knowledgeable. That's like saying EITHER someone is a dooooooooh-per OR she just works magically hard -- and even the dingdongs in this place don't but that last bit anymore....that said Aden looks dirtier than Canova because he was dumb enough to be too close to his own stash. Renato would not do that. Fact.