Her progression would indicate she is doping big time.
What about her progression indicates she would be a "big time" doper? Looking through her TFFRs she progressed pretty consistently over five years, and her pro career progression (via World Athletics) doesn't have an extreme drop times. It's really only in the 3k where you see a large drop (8:36 en route split 2021, 8:25 in Feb., 8:20 at Worlds), but it's not ridiculous to expect her to drop her 3k as her 1500/mile steadily dropped to world class.
Idk man, Tsegay is just a way more economical runner smoother, longer tendons, leaner, trains at altitude her whole life and is probably highly suspect herself and Elle beat her after quite a hiatus from running after motherhood these post pregnancy performance need to be analysed correctly a seen the study saying 56% performed better but is this hobby joggers or elite athletes?
Elle ran away from the likes of Klosterhalfen (coming off 8:20 3k at Pre, 14:26 5k bronze medal at worlds), Reekie (fresh off 1:57 indoor performance), and Gabriella Debues Stafford (5th or 6th off the top of my head in 2019 worlds in 3:55) in 2020 to win the Millrose mile. In 2021 at USAs she got shoved off the track during the 1500 and ran 3:58 from the front AFTER the push, which ultimately injured her. If she stayed healthy, don’t think 3:56 would’ve been out of the question that season. Yes, she’s taken a big step up after pregnancy but it’s not like she was some no name before without world class times.
"Participants who intended to return to equivalent performance levels postpregnancy, there was no statistical decrease in performance in the 1 to 3 yr postpregnancy compared with prepregnancy, and ~56% improved performances postpregnancy"
This study features the largest cohort of elite runners training and competition outcomes assessed throughout pregnancy, with training volumes being approximately two to four times greater than current guidelines. For the fir...
"Participants who intended to return to equivalent performance levels postpregnancy, there was no statistical decrease in performance in the 1 to 3 yr postpregnancy compared with prepregnancy, and ~56% improved performances postpregnancy"
Most dopers aren't caught. 1% of tests are positive yet athlete surveys have shown many more than that percentage are doping.
Removing all the former Soviet state athletes and the Turks from the 2011 survey and you’re left with about 22 per cent, which is dead in line with my experience.
Most athletes don’t want to cheat and don’t do so. You would also know this if you ever spent any time with any of them.
Most dopers aren't caught. 1% of tests are positive yet athlete surveys have shown many more than that percentage are doping.
Please post a link to literature that supports your claims.
1998 tour de france retrospective epo testing—basically all top riders tested positive or suspicious. The tests were not available at the time of the tour, but were applied years later to frozen samples
Please post a link to literature that supports your claims.
1998 tour de france retrospective epo testing—basically all top riders tested positive or suspicious. The tests were not available at the time of the tour, but were applied years later to frozen samples
Most dopers aren't caught. 1% of tests are positive yet athlete surveys have shown many more than that percentage are doping.
Removing all the former Soviet state athletes and the Turks from the 2011 survey and you’re left with about 22 per cent, which is dead in line with my experience.
Most athletes don’t want to cheat and don’t do so. You would also know this if you ever spent any time with any of them.
It isn't "dead in line" with your experience because that would mean you know for a fact who is doping and who isn't. You don't. No one does. But expert estimates put it as high as 90% of top athletes in some sports and some countries. One of them - Renee Ann Shirley, the Jamaican whistleblower - reported that "doping will be found amongst elites in all sports and in all countries, and with the collusion of sports governance bodies". It is in high schools and colleges, local gyms and senior sport. It isn't just Turks and Russians, as you like to think.
