roflcopter wrote:
Right, because one of their 1500m runners getting busted would mean that all of their 1500m runners who have run faster than those “pasty white boys” would be doping right? Not fallacious at all.
You mean yet another African and or Kenyan champion busted?
Coe, Ovett, Cram were tested, probably more than any other athletes in the world at the time. EPO didn't exist then, and the 'cloud of suspicion' over Coe relates to his blood infection which many here assume was the result of blood doping. Never mind that blood doping was actually legal back then and Coe played a major role in having it banned (and recorded his best 1500m time after it was banned and at just under 30 years of age). Brits ran slower when EPO came on the scene. At some point around 1990, British middle-distance runners supposedly suddenly decided to abandon the cheating, just when the most powerful PED of all appeared and it was obvious dozens of African elites runners were megadosing on it. Maybe the election of Saint Tony Blair? But wasn't that 96?
But nothing would convince you types that Africans are more likely to cheat. Despite the lack of testing, the easy availability of EPO, the huge incentives to escape a lifetime of poverty, living in societies in which corruption, bribes, and cheating the norm, Africans today are no more likely to have doped than Europeans in the 1970s who were still laregely amateurs.
The ebony fetish is really strong with you guys.