2017 World 800 champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse banned 1 year for whereabouts failures

I didn't. You did. Thread after thread. But your memory fails you.

You're right. Missing three tests (which is a whereabouts violation) produces the same result as a positive test result (failing a test) and that is a doping ban. For normal people that means the same thing: another doper has been caught.

I see. That helps explain why you struggle with details.

Actually, I haven't yet decided either way. That would be premature, because I don't have enough information.

What I did say comes from the CAS and WADA -- she was convicted based on two presumptions.

He was banned for 1 year. 1 year =/= 4 years. For intelligent people these are not the same.

Don't live with "assumptions and rumor theories" spread LRC loosers (American + Brits).

And stop glorifying your Kenyan and American.

Makhloufi missed the entire 2017 and 2018 seasons due to injury and couldn't take part of the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London.

North Africa gave birth to two world class duelist 800m/1500m during the period 2005/20019. No other region has done it.

What happened to USA and England no more able to produce "acceptable" world class runners in the 800m since 1972?

Symmonds, Murphy, Solomon, and Brazier?

Interesting. please state your thesis, all performance related variables that you could control for, your conclusions, and the scientific bases for those. And please state whether you think WADA shouldn’t test for EPO any more. Thanks!

Why get caught when already over the hill? Not outlandish when you think about it.

You are responding to my statement that: "some rule violations, like the "whereabouts failures" from Bosse, are not other rule violations, like "presence" and "use", it's not just what I think but that is what WADA says."

This is a basic conclusion from reading the contents, or even just the table of contents on pages 1-2, of the Articles 2.1 - 2.11 in the WADA Code. Quite simply Article 2.4 is not Article 2.1 or Article 2.2. Everyone is welcome to dispute that. But there is no thesis, and these Articles are independent of performance, and there is no explicit scientific basis that was provided by WADA.

I think WADA should keep testing for EPO. But I also think that athletes who want to raise their blood values should train at altitude rather than violating any WADA rules, and risking their health.

The only one that won gold is Brazier and he is "colored".

That's why I write "acceptable" (in their subconscient criteria).

I believe him

And so you just miss the wood for the trees again.

You haven't yet decided either way that Houlihan was doping, after her failing a drug test and being convicted of an antidoping violation? There's never enough information for you to decide if a convicted doper was doping. Always true to form.

But for those with more intelligence than you they are both doping violations. The length of the penalty doesn't change that.

But that assumes doping is not as effective as training at altitude. That isn't what the data on doping suggests and altitude-trained athletes who dope obviously don't agree with you.

The CAS told me that she was convicted on two presumptions.

My true form is to draw informed conclusions based on data, rather than assumptions or in this case, presumptions.

What you've failed to understand all along is that a missed test is not the same thing as a failed test.

All this talk about 3 missed tests being a rule violation is a sideshow.