Former Oregon star Shadrack Biwott (USA) suspended for four years for EPO

Hahaha

... and soon he'll really show the world his whole ABP and test results and missed test history, like Super Blood Paula and Burrito Girl did. 😀

Taking EPO to run 2:12 for the marathon. What does it say about the sub 2:10 guys? I know shoes have changed the game but still …

Putting aside any discussion of the verdict, my biggest question is "why, and why now?"

It doesn't make any sense. His best days on the track were clearly at Oregon, some 15-20 years ago, and on the road, his marathon PB is almost celebrating its 10-year anniversary.

Some might say he only got caught now, and he was taking EPO all along, but then again, in his prime, his performances were good at a national level for most nations, but not that good at the world level.

I don't see the motivation to dope for this 39-year old, 1-2 decades past his prime.

We know when EPO came out it was not detectable because the drug was bioidentical to one's own endogenous EPO. They confirmed this as guilty/innocent by tracing a blood profile as being consistent with blood markers vs unnatural based on one's own history.

The presence of exogenous EPO can now be detected in the blood and was found in blood by way of Two samples.

Nowadays you can just buy EPO so naming a coach, supplier, network isn't helping. Of the recent drug busts Zane Robertson is the only one who was somewhat transparent saying the epo was simply bought from a pharmacy but also the lack of hematologist made him stay on the safe side and not take correctly.

Such a long irrelevant blurb about the EPO urine test, and then nothing about the here relevant EPO blood test. What's your agenda?

And what's your problem with Prof. Tucker?

Can we officially change his nickname from Shaddy to Shady?

Mansoor isn't an SRA "official" he's Shaddy's coach. I'm sure that he knew that he was taking drugs the whole time. He isn't blind. At the very bare minimum he knew in January 2024 when his test came up dirty. You don't just tell your coach that you don't feel like racing for a year and eight months without an explanation. But Mansoor still went on to help him get the UC Davis job during that time.

wtf is wrong with your brain

Not sure it's the right thing to do. Yes, an innocent athlete suffers when they are unfairly tainted by an investigation, but every other athlete who isn't competing for a valid reason becomes suspect if we don't know when someone is provisionally suspended. I think "silent provisional suspensions" may be the worse of two evils.

will you defend him like you defended Shelby? Or not because Shelby is a pretty little white woman and Shadrack isn't

Nothing? I did mention the presence of EPO in the blood and literally finished with "I have not followed EPO testing enough to form an opinion on the scientific validity of detecting and confirming the presence of exogenous EPO in blood".

The main point of my post was to debunk "Said No One, ever." -- it turns out many people, who are not me, have argued "that there is something wrong with the EPO test."

What makes you think I have a problem with Prof. Tucker? I was a big fan of his "sportsscientists" site, along with Jonathan Dugas, when they were contributing to it regularly, and appreciated the diversity of topics and the insight they brought and/or invited to the various discussions ranging from thermoregulation to hydration to the Governor Model to cycling performance, etc., and even bought one of their "Exercise Physiology" books.

I noted your peculiarly inconsistent way of writing

Boye as "Prof. Erik Boye and "Prof. Boye"

and Tucker as "Ross Tucker" and "Ross",

in literally the same paragraph.

what about figuratively

And "something wrong with the EPO test" was clearly in relation to Biwott's test, i.e. the current blood test, not the old urine test. So with that in mind, you haven't actually disproven Lloyd's comment.

It was literally the same, so no, not figuratively.

why not just say "the same paragraph" why the use of the word "literally"? Tell me

Covette is more than vindicated.

They want to start suspending or fining schools for 2 many positives.

So you wouldn't ask whether it is literally or figuratively the same paragraph. Now, do you want to troll me with anything else?

An athlete's taint has nothing to do with this.