Peach Pit wrote:
Not saying she's clean, but I don't think she's much more likely to be doping than anyone else running her times.
I disagree with the logic of your assessment.
I certainly hope she is clean but given her associations, I'd say the odds of her not being clean are way higher than for some random runner. I would say the same thing about anyone who ever trained with the NOP as well or anyone who has ever received a massage from a coach who is in possession of testosterone which is the case with both Alberto Salazar and Nick Johnson.
Let me be clear. For the record, so we can avoid a lawsuit, I'm not saying I think she's on drugs. She's never failed a drug test and deserves the presumption of innocence but to think she's just as likely to never have been given an illegal substance as any other runner is absurd to me given her close ties to Nick Johnson whom we know had prescriptions for PEDs.
It's important to understand we know for a fact that Nick Johnson - the husband of her current coach - had prescriptions for both EPO and testosterone:
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=12093587
And what does "being clean" mean anyway? It appears that you can be clean now but still benefit greatly from past doping. I think the thing people don't get it is if you dope with steroids - it appears it can impact you for the rest of your career. It's never made sense to me that someone like Justin Gatlin could get popped, then come back and run just as fast a decade later while passing all the tests. Until I realized that there is a belief that your muscles remember what it was like to be on roids. That's why I believe in lifetime bans for doping.
WADA has studies on this in the past and appears to be doing another one right now.



