jeff tallon wrote:
Theyre npt suspicious,Theyre downright blatant.The ethiopians,jakob and others are all drugged up out of their minds!
Jakob is in a different category to the Ethiopians and not because of his skin colour.
Jakob is an amazing runner, but he's not doing anything other worldly given that talent and being hothoused with a genius father coach and two experienced older world class athlete siblings. Norway does not have a history of corruption and cheating as does East Africa. He probably has been tested in the last year 20 times more than Getnet Wales. Not to mention if he is doping, surely so too are his brothers, in which case collectively they are getting tested probably over 100 times a season.
Further he would have been pushed a little more if had he had somebody like Wightman, Kerr, or McSweyn in the race.
Ethiopians are suspicious because there is documented doping and lack of testing there,, they produce a procession of superhuman performers, and occasionally now some of them are getting busted or even, tragically, dropping dead at young ages. And their neighbours Kenya, where testing is a little better nowadays, have had over 150 doping busts.
If being far ahead of your peers is evidence itself of doping, then you ought to say that Herb Elliott and Peter Snell were 'doping out of their minds'.