Oh Please wrote:
No, the strongest reasons are dozens of times he ran sub 3:30, including multiple 3:26s, starting in the absolutely heyday of unfettered EPO usage. And the nonsense about testing is exactly that. EPO clears fairly quickly and you don't need to have it in your system at the time of competition to benefit.
Those that get busted in competition merely made a mistake in timing.
I honestly don't see how anyone can think that any Olympic running event (and the 3000) have clean world records.
Yes, but clear doping culture of his country and possibly his coach and training partners separates him from others who were just really fast at the time and since. There's also really little contemporaneous defense of El Guerrouj from fellow competitors/coaches that his group WAS clean. That is different than the KIM group (Komen/Ngeny) where you have former athletes from that team who were there and say they a) didn't see anything b) observed some explanatory factors for why those guys were ridiculously good but unable to sustain that level for more than a couple of seasons.
Any time we're talking about an elite athlete of course the performances speak for themselves as far as casting suspicion. It's kind of silly to bring that up like it's some big revelation.
If you're just going to go with someone being fast as a sign of them doping, where do you draw the line. Is Cheptegei definitely doping? How about Kipchoge? Shelby Houlihan? Jakob? Jacob? Go on down the line. For me, I'd like a little more than that guy is too fast to be clean...