bladerunner wrote:
Daffy wrote:
I don't blame you. It's sickening how successful athletes are slandered and maligned. This woman has been performing for years and is leaner than ever. Now that her hard work has paid off, here comes the nay-sayers with wild doping accusations. It's just sickening.
I've been saying this for a long time. The doper people claim the tests don't work. Tell that to Asbel Kiprop ( 4 year ban for EPO). It doesn't matter that she's never been caught. Hicham Guerrouj and Paula Radcliffe run their entire careers with no positive tests and are constantly referred to as dirty on this site.
They say she's too energetic after a race. Check out the 2019 Prefontaine 3k. She's completely wrecked after that race. Some people will never be convinced. It's best just to ignore them.
False accusations of clean athletes are bad for the sport.
Even when generously assuming 50/50 prevalence, accusing all top athletes and record holders of doping means half of these accusations are false.
These false accusations do not come from "fans" of the sport, but from fans who worship the power of doping.
It's like the only way an athlete can win, is for them not to win -- something against the "spirit of the sport".
I continue to wonder how anyone can believe so strongly in the combination of high prevalence (up to 50%) and high performance benefit and the power of no testing, and yet I still see Ingrid Kristiansen's 30:13 performance from 1986 ranking #27 best 10000m performance. The power of rampant and undetected doping hasn't resulted in very many fast performances in the last 35 years, yet with this demonstrable dearth of precedence, we should believe that a US based Dutch Ethiopian athlete, hiding from the testers in Park City Utah, has figured it out better than Ma's Army. Even in the 1500m, with the strong Russian performances of the 1980s, you have to question how prevalent powerful doping among the world's fastest women was outside of Russia and China in the last three decades. And Houlihan, Muir, and Stafford show us what is possible from athletes in nations under constant threat of testing.