So if 14 seconds improvement from his late teens isn't questionable for Wightman, what would be? 15 seconds? 16-17 secs?
So leaving aside Herb Elliott running 3:36 on cinders after less than 2 years training, I presume you think doping really started for milers with John Walker? He began running at 11 in 1963. At 18 his 1500m PB was 3:52 and at 20 it was 3:46. Just two years later at 22 he ran 3:32. As you know, he encountered injury problems which permanently restricted his training after the 76 Olympics. So given that despite this, he still managed to run faster than his former mile WR at age 30, it fair to assume he would have got down to 3:29/3:30 at 25. He himself has stated that he believes that.
In any case, he improved 14 seconds from age 20 to age 22. and 20 seconds from his teens to age 22.
Jake Wightman won the European Junior Championships in 3:43 at barely 19 after running almost entirely BMC meets where he wasn't pushed. The next year at 20 yrs and 1 day, he runs 3:35 in a competitive fast race. But you think he's obviously doped to run 3:29 on an ultra fast Monaco track at 25.
As far as the 1 in 3 is doping, I know of no reputable survey of that kind. Casual Observer often mentions a survey done at the World Arab games at the height of the EPO era which gave a figure of 1 in 5 to 'prove' that everybody dopes.
TBH 1 in 5 of elite Western athletes doping might be accurate. I don't know, not even ever having been a runner at any level and just a fan watching the sport for decades. I know, like any reasonable person on the basis of 130+ doping busts and confirmed reports of corruption in East Africa, that the doping rate there among elite athletes is closer to 100% than 1 in 3 or 1 in 5.
As far as Jake Wightman's progression is concerned there is nothing to see, and the only reason I've wasted so much time to this is because I respect your arguments from other threads.
I guess you could scrutinize his regression in 2015, but I've dug up some pieces that mention his hamstring injury at the end of 2014 and his one and only trip to Kenya to train in 2015 which he hated and he fell ill (maybe he went to dope and Rekrunner and Canova are right that doping makes you slower?). You could also be a cynic more generally about the explosion of talent in Scotland I guess. But as far as his progression is concerned, you have your doping tinted glasses on.
Btw, looks like I've been banned again.