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

Yeah, I do think he started doping at the very end. His results were in a slow decline. His 2:12 was from before super shoes. He was tested regularly for all those years.

I hold out a very small percentage possibility there was something wrong with the test sample or the results.

Throw away the 2:12. He ran 1:01 pre supershoes. He would've had plenty of 2:0x times if he ran Berlin/London every year.

TUEs/whereabouts need to be public. I agree that basically every top athlete is at least bending the rules as much as possible.

Because he is a "nice guy". So if he wasn't nice then he was doping the whole time? Or once he started doping he wasn't nice anymore?

Because his 5k PR from college was only 13:35 or so and every other result he has was in line with that on Daniel’s VDOT scale.

I don't see your point. He couldn't have been doping in college? None of his accomplishments matter now.

You are delusional. One sub par race and that means he never doped? What? He ran 1:01 or something for the half back in the day.

LOL at being tested regularly. Like passing a drug test means anything.

All this talk about him being a nice guy is a bit much. I was teammates with him (won’t say when or what group) but I thought he gave off some shady vibes. Always nice and kind to your face but he would do things that would make you question his true integrity. Not even doping related. For example he’s married with kids but trying to get close with other females. He was creepy about it. After one specific scenario with a female teammate I saw right through him. I’m typically not one to say something negative about someone on these boards but people saying he’s this nice guy don’t truly know him.

He just wants to "massage" them.

Funny how people keep saying that with the tests...

Here are the data from USADA, including in and out of competition (doubt he was good enough for the AIU pool):
2016: 4 - 5th in New York
2017: 3 - 4th in Boston
2018: 0 - 3rd in Boston
2019: 7
2020: 5
2021: 5
2022: 8
2023: 7
2024: 9 - positive tests in January (blood + urine)
2025: 4

Not that a blood and a urine test taken during the same visit count as two tests. So, 8 tests in 2022 doesn't mean that he was tested at 8 different occasions.

Amazing that someone can get 3rd at Boston and not get tested.

OK so is this a place to just throw out gossip like this? I don’t have anything to say about Shadrack but it seems as if you harbor ill will towards him, and you felt the need to vent. You saw “right through him.” OK and I see right through you. So what?

Considering he has to take a job cleaning the exercise machines in the student rec center, I highly doubt he had any way of paying for or procuring drugs while in college

I note you look for ways to criticize things I don’t say. Ross is also a PhD. I was still a big fan of Ross and Jon back when they contributed regularly to their sportsscientists website.

Did you note that my post started with “Maybe not the EPO test per se …”?

Prof. Boye’s comments were regarding the latest “SAR-PAGE” testing, after 2013. Much of the criticism generally questioned the scientific validity of the tests, and the competence of the lab to execute the tests, and their independence when presenting the results in arbitration or getting second opinions, and the photographic manipulation of the results, and the lack of access for the athletes to the raw data.

These are applicable to both old and new tests, and urine and blood tests.

It really amazing to me that people are this ignorant. You don’t think that people that don’t have enough money can get drugs?

No. I noted that your post started with "Only you can control how informed you are."

Agree. Nice guy is a bit much. Some people have a tough time reading people and fall for whatever perception they want people to have of them. Some have the ability to read between the lines.

Had he been better informed, he would have known that some have been saying there is something wrong with the EPO test results for more than 20 years, since the cases of Lagat, to Colvert, to Biwott.