Human Nature wrote:
Drugs are not hard to find in the US. You want EPO? Send someone to Mexico or pay off someone at a hospital. You want testosterone? Just go into the medicine cabinet of most 50 year old men. People who want to cheat are going to find ways to cheat. People who do not want to cheat will refrain from cheating even when they have the opportunity.
The idea that Kenyans have a special incentive to cheat because of money is dumb. All sorts of people cheat for no good reason. Regina Jacobs was not making millions from her drug use. Barry Bonds was making great money before he cheated. Pete Rose did not need to bet on baseball. Emmanuel Clase did not need to bet on baseball. The kid in gym class who puts his foot on the starting line (not behind it) is not getting more money.
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Access to drugs was never a barrier. You can also mail order them.
The financial incentive for Kenyans leaves them vulnerable to exploitation, by both local and foreign agents. WADA looked twice into Kenyan doping, both times noting that 1) a lack of diligence during routine medical interventions, and 2) exploitation from local pharmacists/doctors and remote coaches/agents, were significant sources of doping busts.