I start from the bottom of your post.
1. Yes, hematocrit levels go down from the high intenisty work. But this is one of the reason because I don't believe in doping : WHILE HEMATOCRIT LEVELS DROP FOR HARD (AND RIGHT) TRAINING, PERFORMANCES BECOME BETTER.
I'm not interested in hematocrit levels, I'm interested in what training is able to produce AS PERFORMANCES. This means that hematocrit level IS AN EFFECT OF TRAINING, not the CAUSE of high performances. For that reason, my behavior and my belief is exactly the opposite of what all doctors involved in cycling doping think.
2. Supposing EPO can help recovery, and for that reason can give big advantages in cycling during competitions with many following stages (as Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Vuelta de Espana), in athletics we don't have this type of competitions, and there is no proof that the possibility to train hard every day can produce better results than TRAIN VERY HARD EVERY 4 or 5 days, using more modulation between specific intensity of training and recovery.
Abel Kirui, for example, won WCh in 2011 having 17 days without training distributed during the last 41 days, because it was the only way for having high specific quality training (without it he couldn't win) and, at the same time, to recover from a knee injury (running high volume of slow km couldn't allow him to solve the problem).
3. I never heard of any doctor using, in the shadow, "stored blood bags" in Kenya. I heard of some doctor trying to take advantage from a new German manager (because the journalist Seppelt introduced himself as new manager interested to open a new training camp in Kapsabet) boasting of his ability to give some athletes right doping for running faster (this, casually, in the same town where Stefan Matschiner tried to put a camp, before being kicked out of the Country after allegation by some athlete).
4. Only idiots can think that athletes born, living and training in altitude want to stay in altitude for having the opportunity to dope without any control. This means that the only advantage athletes can have in altitude is that it's difficult for the testers reaching them.... and not advantages under physiological point of view ! But many times in this Website somebody supposed ALL THE BEST RUNNERS GO ALTITUDE NOT BECAUSE THEY CAN HAVE SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE, BUT BECAUSE THEY CAN DOPE WITHOUT ANY RISK OF CONTROL. This is a position that only idiots not knowing anything about training and physiology can have.
5. A scientific doping system is very expensive, and it's ridiculous to think athletes earning between 10,000 and 30,000 USD per year can spend their money for so little income, with the possibility to waste everything because frequently they don't win. For your knowledge, for example, in Dubai Marathon 2012 Mulugueta Wendimu ran 2:07:28, position 11, and went home with a T-Shirt because there were 10 prizes only...
Too many posters don't know anything about the amount of prizes for different competitions, and think managers and coaches can have big incomes from athletic activity.
Unfortunely, this is not what happens. Athletics, also at professional level, is a "poor" discipline, particularly if you are an African runner, and only very few athletes earn money able to look at them as really "professional".
The difference is that in US or Europe athletes of 2nd international level (are ALL the athletes not in top 10 in their event) can have some different type of support (sponsors or part-time jobs or, in several Countries, their employment in some private company or statal body), in Africa nothing, and the only source of money is what they are able to win as prizes.
In Kenya, every year AK has to accept the registration of managers allowed to represent Kenyan athletes, and many of them (for example Matschiner) were not accepted by the governing body. Do you really think some manager can risk to be cut by AK as "not welcome person" for giving medium level athletes some doping, producing for the management incomes of less than 1,000 USD ?
6. When I ask how many blood tests the best american athletes had in one season is not for changing the argument of the original post, and I agree with you that this doesn't change the fact in Kenya there are not blood tests as routine. What I can't accept is that, reading what many of you write, it seems only in US there are a lot of test, with the higher level of diffusion, and US athletes have to compete, obviously clean because in US there are heavy tests, against doped athletes, because in Kenya and Ethiopia these tests don't exist.
This means that the best US runners have THE SAME TYPE OF TESTS OF KENYAN AND ETHIOPIAN, and in the same amount.
Another thing about tests : athletes with a perfect biological passport are less tested by WADA, and the reason because the best African are not tested out of competition frequently is because their biological passports are without
variations of their values, so they are not considered "athletes at risk of doping". After the adoption of biological passport, WADA created a list including all the athletes having strange values, and looks at these athletes in particular way. If there are no African athletes in this list, is because their values have very little variations in different periods of the season, and this is a clear sign of "non doping behavior".
During the meeting in Palo Alto of 2 years ago, in your "perfect" Country was not possible to have any test (there was a very good 10000m) because the containers didn't arrive on time....