rekrunner wrote:
Sorry for the lengthy response, but I repeatedly find that the truth doesn't compact as well as multiple false claims.
Let me offer a few clues about me, so you might start stopping to believe nonsense about what I claim or believe.
I am not Chad, and I have to wonder about your comprehension skills, that you might ever start to confuse the two of us with each other.
I admit to being a character, but I am not fictitious.
I don't have convenient or inconvenient links to the dastardly Brits. On the contrary, I have only ever denied being British, residing in Britain, or any other alleged important connection to any important Brit in athletics or road racing.
I am 100% American, with 0% links to Brits.
I don't argue or take this extreme position that you attribute to me.
I believe and claim that athletes from many nations worldwide dope. I might argue with the likes of "casual obsever" on the magnitude of prevelance, whether it is 14%, or 29%, or 44%, or more, but I believe doping is something that is fairly widespread among athletes of all nations.
I even once said "everyone from everywhere (up to 57%) dopes" which drew particular (yet equally unjustified because you failed to comprehend the qualified "up to 57%") outrage from you then, so I find it odd now that just a few months later, you forgot your previous disgust and outrage, and now claim that I have claimed the complete opposite, that "nobody dopes". Again,another reason to question your comprehension skills, as well as short term memory retention combined with an ability to differentiate.
Having read the WADA ADRV report from 2016 that was linked a few months ago on the letsrun homepage, I believe a pretty strong case could be made that the top Brits today do not dope. I'm not making that case, but would listen to it with little resistance if someone did.
Unless one is cynical, that the Brits are covering it up, or otherwise protected by UKAD, IAAF, and WADA -- I do not believe this or claim this.
The same WADA ADRV report says that Kenya and Ethiopia are not as bad as France and Italy, and the worst nations by far are countries like Russia and India.
I don't so much claim that doping doesn't work, but I have wondered rather explicitly in a lengthy thread looking at the small quantity of quality performances over very large populations over several popular distance events for nearly three decades, why EPO-era doping didn't work more for all but a few dozen of the top non-African distance runners. If I'm not mistaken, you have wondered the same thing on a much smaller scale for middle-distance Brit runners post Coe, Evett, and Cram.
And I've said this before -- in your defense, I do not believe you are racist. I wish people would stop misusing the term frivolously, because it somehow diminishes real acts of racism. Your behavior is more correctly called stereotyping, as it is not based exclusively on race.
Coevett wrote:
I'm starting to believe he might be the same person as Rekrunner. Rekrunner is the fictitious character (with convenient links to the dastardly Brits) who claims that nobody dopes/doping doesn't work, especially East Africans and Paula, and MindWeak is the other extreme who thinks literally EVERYBODY dopes (although he doesn't spend too much time claiming that particular American runners dope).
They turn it into a polarized discussion of extremes. Either everyone dopes (or doping doesn't work) or nobody dopes. Those taking more moderate and reasonable positions based on evidence and actual doping busts, who claim that doping is worse in some places than others (for example East Africa - a view shared by 99% of people outside this forum, from the athletics community to the general public) are slandered as 'racists'.