Why would Bekele fly to Ethiopia for 4 days?

And

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New Haven runner wrote:

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This is the correct answer.

All the casual fans who turn up at the stadium think the wonderful East Africans who ran to school each day 10 miles barefoot are as clean as the driven snow. The IAAF need to keep it like that. Just like the whole rice and yams thing.

I know where the Ethiopians won medals. Just compare that to events in the past though. Medal after medal after medal.

And Burka had made her kick and she was going nowhere and just about to get owned by girls that couldn't come close to her all season because of her superfast finish.

(although the Bahrainian Ethiopian was still on form though.)

Getmeouttahere wrote:

but your post is nonsense.

you sound like a school teacher give out crappy marks

fuxk off

Very few people went to the Olympic Stadium in Berlin with Ethiopians at the top of their lists. Most were there to either support their individual nationalities, support the Germans or see the Bolt freak show.

Virtually every person caught for PEDs has been either part of a state system, coached and/or managed by someone with a history of distributing drugs or has admitted their culpability in one-off situations like Hunter-Galvan and Lombard.

Ceplak was coached an East German who had other runners turn up dirty, and Wagner has been named by Heredia as someone who sought him out.

Ramzi was coached by Khalid Boulami.

Trevor Graham's whole group was busted, except for a few that got away.

The Russians, Belarussians, Ukrainians go without saying.

Ma got busted before Sydney.

The Youngquist/Eddy H group

You think the Ethiopian system isn't in some way 'state run'.

All the points you're making about the Eastern Europeans is proving my point. People who are from places that have already been busted are fair game, everyone is cynical anyway. People who are from 'clean' places, the IAAF needs to maintain the illusion because it could go a long way to destroying any credibility the sport has left.

People from the outside think every TDF rider is a doper simply because of the scandals.

It's not the point that the Ethiopians are not at the top of the list, the fact is they are there and running and the average fanboy thinks it's all natural.

Post your evidence that there is a state run doping program in Ethiopia, a country that is between 165th and 184th in the world in terms of nominal GDP per capita.

broken arrow wrote:

we are all trying to believe that there are some clean athletes out there.

you aren't

If the IAAF are turning a blind eye to drugs why the f*** would Burka stop taking them?

Just accept you country is sh1t at distance running like the rest of us have! Loser

ukathleticscoach wrote:

If the IAAF are turning a blind eye to drugs why the f*** would Burka stop taking them?

Just accept you country is sh1t at distance running like the rest of us have! Loser

They're not turning a blind eye, they told them to clean up their act, but didn't go so far as to make the positive tests public.

A self-reinforcing delusion.

Don't know how most people feel on the subject, but if I were traveling the world all the time and money was really no object, I would fly 7 hours to be at home for 4 days...no question.

Well they must have forgotten to tell Bekele.

Defar either injured or choked under pressure.

Dibaba injured most of the season.

The truth probably is that with a few injuries and or Defars failure the rest of the ethiopian team probably performed to par.What it shows is that if you take away a few of the big names their is very little strength in depth .

Also Trollism glad you had a smile when the kenyans won ,very good for the sport to get two great new world champions.But how much will they have to win and how fast will they have to run before you turn on them .

trollism wrote:

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They're not turning a blind eye, they told them to clean up their act, but didn't go so far as to make the positive tests public.

I assume you got this pearl of wisdom from your extensive contacts within the IAAF

It'll come out eventually, these things always do.

The tears of the clueless fanboys will flow from here to Timbuktu.

And in Ethiopia it will be described as a 'Western Vendetta'.

I hate cheats.

You remind me of the Christians who tell me that the Rapture is coming.

Any day now.

Loser - look a bit closer to home you will find plenty of cheats

Have you ever hear that being born at altitude & trained at has a similar effect to EPO - ie you don't f'ing well need it

I hate to throw my self into the bickering here, but:

If Ethiopians cheat because they do well then the same is true of Kenyans (distance), US/Jamaica (Sprints) and US again (Shot), just to keep the list short.

If your standard for who is cheating is who is doing well in a sport where you're goal is to do well, either lose baseless cynicism or find another past time where it doesn't matter as much (WWE perhaps).

Trollism: Despite constant calls for some supporting evidence all you have done is reference vague "public positives" and "cover-ups." Despite the fairly obvious contradiction I'd had to think you are just ranting on a message board. So do you actually have anything to back up what you say? Because right now you might as well say there is a man on the moon or the earth is the center of universe (both could be plausible, after all people believed it for a while, on their face, but are also supported by nothing, and factually wrong.)

As for people flying back to Africa after a race, I cannot speak for KB or Ethiopians, but I've heard from collegiate Kenyan runners that a lot of the Kenyan athletes will fly home almost right after a race, even if they are going to be racing again in Europe in a few days.

For those of you who think it is something nefarious that will probably add fuel to your argument, provided you think Kenyans cheat as well (see beginning of post). I just thought I'd point out that it isn't that unique.

What did Ritz and Teg do after Berlin and before their other races in Europe?