rekrunner wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
So Gidey running a men's record would not suggest doping to you. No further proof is needed of the extent of your denial or your ignorance. You have confirmed that no level of performance is capable of rousing your suspicions in a sport rife with doping.
You also misquote me. Of course you do. I do not say and have not said that it is "impossible" to tell the clean performance from the doped one as an absolute. Doubts may apply to the runner in the middle of the pack, about whom we have little personal information, but with outlier performances like Gidey's they ring out "doping" like a police klaxon. Only someone utterly ignorant of the extent of doping in sports and its effect on performance will not see that. But that is you. You are like someone who attends a concert but is unable to tell that it is music. Tone deaf. To doping.
The only thing I ever deny are products of your imagination.
Gidey running a men's world record is just more of your imagination.
If doping could lead Gidey to run 57xx, we should have seen many more sub-64 performances by now, given all of your assumptions about extent and effect. The fact that we haven't undermines assumptions of extent, or effect, or both.
The reasons for Gidey running 57xx will be something local, and not something global, with a long history, like doping.
Furthermore, there are too many obvious anomalies to which you remain blind and deaf.
Answer me this: If doping is so extensive, and has such a powerful effect, shouldn't it be powerful everywhere and anytime? Why is Ingrid Kristiansen from 1987 still #3 all time among all non-Africans world wide in all of history? Doesn't effective doping extend as far as non-Africans? Is doping more effective for altitude born and raised athletes, and powerless for sea-level athletes? Are top non-Africans not doping, and doping only extends to middle of the pack wannabes?
One or more of your assumptions needs serious refinement, if not complete rejection.
In which thread did you ever suggest that outlier performances would be an exception to what you repeatedly claim is "impossible"? What would be the basis, in the real world, for any such exception? Is such a suggestion something that others suggest, or simply another product your imagination?