There are a lot of indices that lead to this. Before August 1992 he was a hard working talented middle distance runner but not at the same level as Aouita (who at that time was in a declining carrer 32/33+ year).
From September 1989 to August 1992 he was unable to past the cap of 3 min 31 sec in the 1500m.
Then in a struggling year (3 defeats) he jumped in the space of 2 weeks to 3min 28 sec 86.
EPO saved his carrer because after that he transformed in a killing machine for 4 years.
I think he started in 1991,the year of his big breakthrough. Cacho beat him in 1992,but that was the only time.
All I know is my boy Brian Hyde went f'n toe to toe with both of these doping bastards - Cacho and Morcelli - in Sweden in '95, and very nearly beat them both, the world record holder and reigning Oly Champ.
Makes me wonder how the championship meets would've gone back then if bio passports were in use. Guys like Hyde got screwed.
That is the question we will never know. how many 13:10 guys in the late 80s/90s lost medals to dopers?
FWIW I don’t think Morceli was in EPO. More the standard cocktail of steroids and blood packing that was standard for the previous 20 years… But he has had a pretty standard progression with making a big jump around 20/21 and then slicing time off over the next 5 years. And then struggled to stay healthy as he aged and those years of hard training caught up with him..
All I know is my boy Brian Hyde went f'n toe to toe with both of these doping bastards - Cacho and Morcelli - in Sweden in '95, and very nearly beat them both, the world record holder and reigning Oly Champ.
Makes me wonder how the championship meets would've gone back then if bio passports were in use. Guys like Hyde got screwed.
That is the question we will never know. how many 13:10 guys in the late 80s/90s lost medals to dopers?
FWIW I don’t think Morceli was in EPO. More the standard cocktail of steroids and blood packing that was standard for the previous 20 years… But he has had a pretty standard progression with making a big jump around 20/21 and then slicing time off over the next 5 years. And then struggled to stay healthy as he aged and those years of hard training caught up with him..
“Blood packing” and epo accomplish the same thing.
The way the Kenyan lets Cacho by on the inside is suspect.
Morceli sound asleep, El G running like a neophyte.
Everyone with opinions on Morceli before during and after the games needs to re watch the race.
Had he simply stayed in lane one on the back stretch he would have been in the medals (and outside shot at fighting for the win). Instead, he took a right turn to lane 4 exactly as the real sprinting started and was immediately out of it. In a super slow race, that split second decision will cost you everything.
Horrible tactical decision that ruined any opportunity for a medal.
The way the Kenyan lets Cacho by on the inside is suspect.
Morceli sound asleep, El G running like a neophyte.
Everyone with opinions on Morceli before during and after the games needs to re watch the race.
Had he simply stayed in lane one on the back stretch he would have been in the medals (and outside shot at fighting for the win). Instead, he took a right turn to lane 4 exactly as the real sprinting started and was immediately out of it. In a super slow race, that split second decision will cost you everything.
Horrible tactical decision that ruined any opportunity for a medal.
The more I watch the race, the more suspect it looks. The Kenyan kept looking behind him like a pacemaker does, as though he was waiting to let Cacho through. The other Kenyan appeared to be deliberately blocking Morceli in. Talk about a Kenyan team effort, hope the Spanish paid them plenty of pesos.
This is what he said when his countryman Ali Saïdi-Sief was busted for nandrolone.
"Do you have any comments on the doping case of Saidi Sid Ali Sief?"
I am sorry for him and I am pained by his suspension. I make a point of saying, all the same, that Sief remains a sure value of the Algerian athletics. Moreover, he showed it as a junior when he had recorded 2'37 . This proves all the capacities that it detects. At 25 years, he is quite able to carry out world performances and to beat world records. Myself, I had broken a world record at 25 years. Sief will be able to do this as well and he is quite capable, I am convinced.
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