Bwire, you are just like Rekrunner an African or more specifically a Kenyan sympathizer … maybe you are Rekrunner.
Especially Kenyan distance runners who take PEDs (which are most likely the vast majority and absolutely the ones at the top) continue to rip off the running world (those athletes that are clean) by taking their prize money, their moment of glory, sponsorship dollars, causing advertisers to pull away from investing in our sport, causing people to not watch distance running etc.
For every one bust their are hundreds of Kenyan distance runners willing to do exactly the same to make money. Monies are seldom taken away from the cheats, the coaches and agent fees of the cheats.
Shame on race directors; not just road but also Diamond League that let athletes who are associated with coaches and agents that have had multiple athletes busted for PEDs continue to compete. Shame on race directors that have some level of event testing but hand pick the most likely to be clean athletes to test and not the top finishers who may be more likely to be doping.
National Governing Bodies (if they are worth anything) should put in place rules that put the bums (those athletes that get caught in jail if they won’t rat out the enablers (agents, coaches, pharmacists, doctors, officials, two-bit-politicians).
World Athletics, WADA, AIU (who is actually doing something) can’t you sanction Kenya or better yet ban Kenya? If not why not under the present rule system and create new rules that can? Cant you sanction coaches and agents that have multiple athletes banned for PEDs and whereabouts CRIMES? Cant you make race directors test the top three then three other athletes in an event in-order-to be a WA sanctioned event?
It is no wonder the sport is loosing viewership. World governing bodies indecision on the obvious is killing Athletics.