The man in the rain wrote:
Wise Old Man wrote:
Bekele has done nothing but get older these past two years and he’s given us no reason to think he can seriously threaten the record. Heck, I doubt Kipchoge is able to still threaten the record either. Bekele is far more likely to DNF than break the record in Berlin.
If you've been full throttle EPO dosing from age 9 to 25, and then microdosing (likely with long spells of full throttle, especially for Bekele) you can still perform close to your best at 40, as both Kipchoge and Bekele have proven.
The reason Mo couldn't do the same is because he only started doping at age 25.
You don´t know how EPO works, do you? It´s not like steroids, where you still have benefits even if you stop. When you stop using epo the effect dissappears. It doesn´t matter if you" been full throttle EPO dosing from age 9 to 25". If you stop using it after that, the benefit stops.