goldeneye2.0 wrote:
Why is that ridiculous? This entire sport is ridiculous bc you can have the most obvious doping progressions imaginable and a) the casual fans are oblivious, and b) the so-called hardcore fans are obtuse or dishonest. The issue is not how much she ran over the past two years, but the insane improvement she showed this year, well into her career where all the boilerplate explanations (undertrained, overtrained, injured, unmotivated, multisport athlete, magic late bloomer running gene, etc) are even more laughable than usual. And yes, a very effective strategy is to target a key race (say the Olympics) and then offcycle. BC the alternative is to show a major drop off or stay on cycle and risk, however improbably, getting caught.
Yeah, can't keep stoking that kiln until winter, or thereabouts...