Twins Jake & Zane have nearly identical PRs, so doesn't Zane's bust prove either 1) EPO doesn't work or 2) Jake is dirty too?

Look at Jorge and Ed Torres. Similar times but also a clearly faster brother.

A third possibility is that Jake and Zane could have a similar difference. Zane doped to keep up with his faster brother.

of course they are both dirty. duh

they have the same talent, its just that one does better when the other is injured. plus nutrition is different.

Salient points of the podcast with Zane Robertson:
Despite spending 16 years in Kenya he has no real friends there aside from his brother-in-law‘s family.
The Manchester 10 km doping scenario was a one off and he had never done that before that race. It was a question of desperation at the end of his career.
The authorities still have his samples and the samples can be retested and so all his records will be judged by that and the world will see that all his records are clean.
He has nothing to hide and all his samples can be re tested and the world will see that he is legit.
He made one single mistake in his life and he has to live with that and the consequences.
He has been disgraced by the New Zealand Olympic movement but the Olympic movement in New Zealand does not realize that in world athletics it is not a level playing field.
People who don’t understand this situation are not elite sports people.
He’s not looking for sympathy there are different angles to this.
He’s been tested over 50 times before after and in between and he’s been targeted by drug free sport New Zealand so many times and he’s never had anything untoward happen. People should look at the global perspective that he’s a clean athlete except for that one mistake.
He was tested in Manchester by the UK anti-doping agency.
The Covid vaccine scenario was a far-fetched idea but Zane was just out try to cover “his posterior.”
In the Manchester run despite having taken EPO, he felt terrible after 800 m and then he felt he had Covid and an ear infection which resulted that he was not able to run properly for six weeks after the Manchester run.
There was a lot of pressure from his ex-wife from Ethiopia and one day she came and gave him EPO and then he held onto it for a long time and took it with him to Kenya and finally he reached a breaking point after Olympic Games in 2021. He succumbed to temptation in a little moment.
Zane would like to dispel the myth that in Kenya and Ethiopia a foreigner can go into a pharmacy and buy EPO - in fact that is impossible and if a foreigner tried to go into pharmacy to buy EPO he would be thought of as a spy or someone with an agenda to trap the pharmacist and athletes.
Pete Pfitzinger was very concerned about Zane Robertson once he found out and he was given all the care from New Zealand sports including psychiatric help which he never had before. He received free treatment.
Zane stresses that athletes are human first and he shouldn’t be judged solely on his athletics
Zane was recently in a car accident resulting in internal bleeding on the left side of his brain and he thought at the time that it might’ve been better had he succumbed in the accident.
In September 2022 he knew that the story would blow up as it eventually did.
It made him anxious and a lot of dark moments were passed by him.
He was well supported by certain aspects of the sports authorities in New Zealand. Counseling offered after September 2021. Pfitzinger, the former American elite marathoner was the instigator to help Zane.
Even though after the O.G. 2021, he considered retiring he continued because athletics was his entire identity and he invested his whole life in it.
He thinks that he may have had a better life had he not made the decision to invest all his time in Kenya and just lived a “normal life.” Regrets.
As a kid he was full of dreams and it took many years to make the dream come true.
In recent years he really started to hate what he saw in professional athletics in Kenya.
He knows he no longer loves the professional side of the sport in Kenya.
He still loves running and will always run.
He would not like to coach elite runners but he has an ambition to coach fun runners to achieve their best.
He will always run.
He’s not a criminal and his infraction should not be viewed as such and maybe he can’t race professionally but he can run and participate in sports as a fun runner. No one can stop him and he’s not a criminal he stresses.
A lot of athletes of high-level are prone to anxiety.
New Zealand is an extremely expensive country and he cannot afford to live there and he couldn’t even afford a plane ticket to go home there.
He went through a lot of stress and depression after the O.G.
He wished he had taken 2 to 4 years to study instead of solely functioning and focusing on athletics for the past 16 years.
He wants to come back to the Gold Coast and win the marathon there.
What are the next steps? He’s living day by day and he recently passed a course in sports nutrition and personal training and he would like to branch out into those activities.
He only wants to coach fun runners - he doesn’t want to coach elites!
He hasn’t forgiven himself yet and it will take a long time but he thinks he’ll eventually come to terms with what he did and he hopes time will be the great healer.
He hopes everyone will forgive him for his mistake but unfortunately his mistake was seen by the entire world.

3) Zane was plagued by injuries and was desperate to shorten the time to get back to competitive shape.

I'd say don't through that allegation out unless he also tests positive! Not good to tarnish his name if he is clean!

"He wants to come back to the Gold Coast and win the marathon there."

No chance, it's an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, unless he thinks he can do it and win it in nine years time.

Anyway, bottom line to your long post is, he's a cheat, probably needs to find an area to get on with in his life that is no way associated with sport, fitness, health, coaching, etc. Perhaps he could get a regular job just like most of the population.