ZANE ROBERTSON POPPED FOR EPO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Claimed he went for Covid-19 vaccine, was given EPO instead.

Ridiculous assertion unless you buy his COVID shot story. He chose to dope, and you can choose to dope pretty much anywhere. It’s worse that he hypocritically cast many others’ achievements as doped and then doped himself so blatantly he was caught in a competition test.

A common sentiment, but virtually all elite runners are associated to a drug cheat somehow… but possibly that is what you’re saying…

elite = on drugs

However, as I understand it, you’re only an actual drug cheat when you fail a drug test. Just like you can’t actually run that time you say you can run until you actually run it in a race.

Tanner is the only world class distance runner in New Zealand. So if the rest of the distance runners in NZ are doping I would recommend getting a new dealer.

Lashawn Merritt is still my favorite .. to be fair, I almost believe it cause who make that up....

Guys I have COVID does anyone know where I can get EPO? I have a big race next month and I’ve heard it can help me get over COVID quicker.

How many times in this thread must Lisa Hunter-Galvan, a New Zealand distance runner who admitted to doping, be mentioned before you realize it?

Why in earth would some one make such a stupid assumption? Is there anyone out there who is dumb enough to think a clean test means someone isn't doing drugs? Did they sleep through the lance Armstrong years?

Odds are the dude has been doping for a decade and took advantage of the poor testing in Kenya. Makes that big breakthrough in 2012/3 look a lot different.

And another sorry tale of New Zealand sport. Why do you continue to overlook confessed New Zealand marathoner doper Lisa Hunter-Galvan for the 5th or 6th time in this thread? Amazing.

You didn’t have to say it as it’s implicit in your argument. Why else would you parade NZ’s low number of busts around like it’s some big gotcha?

You know that dopers are always one step ahead of testers and only the stupid get caught, so your continued insistence that number of failed tests says anything about prevalence of doping is not only simplistic but dishonest.

A lack of drug busts doesn’t imply lack of drug use when testing is so easily beaten.

Drug Free Sport NZ:

Mr Robertson, who trains in Kenya, was tested at the UK’s Great Manchester Run in May 2022. His sample returned a positive result for EPO, which was later confirmed through B-sample testing.

Mr Paterson went on to acknowledge the high level of international cooperation that had taken place, “This case benefitted hugely from the sharing of key information and the invaluable support of the Athletics Integrity Unit and Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya. Our global partnerships allow us to collaborate across the anti-doping landscape to detect and deter doping and hold dopers to account, wherever they may be.”

The irony, Kenyan drug testers helped take him down!!!

She lived in Texas!!!

Aliphine makes a very important point. Robertson blaming Kenyan doctors is giving Amanda Knox trying to frame her black boss Patrick Lumumba for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Or better yet, white women in the old American South screaming "rape" after consensual coitus with black men. It's the easy scapegoat though we now see he was never at that clinic.

This you Canova, epo does not work on some types

Rek and Canova; pods in a pea.

Even though his word is mud, Zane should reveal where and how he got the EPO to help the Kenyan government's crackdown. But I predict nothing will come of it as it will emerge that he likely sought it out himself and wasn't the unwilling victim of some nefarious PED system.

So basically you are saying that Kenyans are stupid?

Time to ban foreign athletes from training in Kenya (or Epiopia). As if anybody believes that Kenyan success is down to the way they train, or the local ugali. If it's altitude you want than there are plenty of other places to go.

Has a TITAN just fell?

I bet no one said this about America when Minuteman Merritt, Shelburrito and Meathead Mead were busted.