Armstronglivs wrote:
An utterly disingenuous observation. No one has argued on these threads that there was doping in the former E Bloc or in China in the '90's. Those are known facts of life.
You have never accepted an argument here about any individual athlete since that era - especially a distance runner - who hadn't incurred a doping violation. No one in 30-odd years. You're a doping denier - and part of your denial is to deny even that fact. In common parlance it's called being a liar. As you are.
Since you frequently arrive at wrong and demonstrably false conclusions, I tend to discard your name-calling conclusions.
It don't really understand what "doping denier" means to you. Maybe it is different in the southern hemisphere.
If you mean "use" (or prevelance), I do not deny that many athletes use banned drugs.
This is supported by data -- I can be persuaded by data.
If you try to make an argument about any individual athlete, it should be trivial to figure out what I will accept: facts, data, and logic.
It should also be trivial by now to figure out what I take with a grain of salt: faith and fallacy, and in extreme cases, demonstrable falsehoods.
In the end, when faith and fallacy are stripped, we are often left with nothing, and the "argument" is similar to: I believe that performance was magic, and I believe only drugs can explain magic.
Taking for example the case of Nadal, I rejected all of your faith based claims and fallacies, leaving the fact that an aging, #2 in the world clay specialist, beat an aging, #1 in the world, in a tournament on clay.