rekrunner wrote:
Coevett wrote:
This ten year old post is Rekrunner's first contribution to the EPO debate here.
This thread is a classic. Ten years old and has all the big names from Canova to Trollism going back and forth. Even Ghost1 (simply called Ghost back then) defending an Ethiopian born Spaniard over doping and Trollism calling him out on it. To be fair, the guy (Bezabeh) was eventually cleared due to lack of evidence.
I have to apologize to Rekrunner - I don't think he is a paid shill, he does genuinely believe the things he writes.
Maybe one of the first posts, as “rekrunner”.
“Paid shill” is one of these childish games that posters play and some of the lesser intelligent posters fall for, and reach for when they cannot hold their own in a real discussion. It’s like asking whether “El Keniano” is really Kenyan — a childish game that doesn’t matter, but achieves its intended effect of distraction.
Ten years ago, history was already written, and nothing that has happened in the last 10 years that could alter the historical results of the 20 years that preceded it. If anyone wanted to believe anecdotes of 3-4 second gains from EPO not achievable legally, they would have had to ignore the glaring anomaly that such phenomenal returns from a globally available and globally abused, for decades, were limited to small regions of inhabitants born in East and North Africa, and worked best on a group of people with scarce resources (money, reliable electricity, reliable refrigeration) born and raised in an environment known to trigger the same physiological effects without resorting to artificial substances.
Your whole 'scientific thesis' that EPO doesn't work rests on the absurd value judgement that it's raysheest to believe that there is a far greater doping problem in distance running in certain areas of Africa whose poverty stricken inhabitants have a far greater incentive to dope, as well as a lack of testing