rekrunner wrote:
Renato usually makes that claim for altitude born and raised that have trained enough to significantly increase their blood volume.
Indeed. He also readily admits that EPO works for everyone else, e. g. Farah, Rupp and Jager, to name a few fast elite runners on the "likely doping" list, which is only the tip of the iceberg, as per the Thüringen/Harvard study.
rekrunner wrote:
This week's "Week That Was", highlights the performance of Norway's Sondre Moen, significant in that he's now in the exclusive group of top-6 "Non-African born" men under 60 minutes, versus 136 African men, when the world record is nearly two minutes faster at 58:23.
Amazing, isn't it. So the clean Africans are so superior that they vastly outperform those who benefit from EPO, according to Canova.
And yet, there are Jeptoo and Sumgong, who improved quite a bit as EPO users, plus several Kenyans and Ethiopians including Asbel Kiprop + G. Mutai on the "likely doping" list, which, again, is only the tip of the iceberg as per the Thüringen/Harvard study. Remember that we already knew from the Poistogova and Savinova cases that one has to use quite a lot EPO to end up on the "likely doping" list - and still gets away with it because the IAAF experts can't agree to impose a ban.