Valby's progression has been quite interesting.
Anyway I don't retract a single thing. As I said once before, I have a pretty keen eye regarding red flags (it's not rocket science, you can always recognize them if you bother to look) and my radar goes off as it may. I'm reasonably careful. There are many athletes I think dope in this sport. It is essentially required to be a pro runner. But as long as the athlete is not being obvious and insulting everyone's intelligence, I will generally let it pass. Just don't try to rub everyone's faces in it, like Shelby and her AR time trial with her faithful sidekick and her Armstrongesque denials. And don't do it in high school or college. That I will always point out because it violates the unwritten rules of the game. Compete in college clean then as a pro it is what it is. I know this already does not apply to the sprinters. But doping in college distance running? People could really go that low? Well after the AW saga, I guess so. There is nothing to prevent it, and if a program already has suspect sprinters and field athletes on the roster, why not others?
So here we have an athlete whose progression is already suspect, who is clearly suspected by other athletes, who shows red flags, who never seems to tire from PR to PR to PR. Who does not show the inconsistency of a clean athlete. And what does the athlete do after another down period out of the public eye? She's bombs another Massive PR. I and others said this was exactly what would transpire, that there was already a distinct pattern. But then the athlete goes full Leroy Jenkins on the PR train, breaking a course record by 30 seconds. It is like daring people to raise an uncomfortable question. It is frankly Shelbyesque. If you are going to dare people to notice, I am certainly not shy, and my arrow rarely misses.
Maybe I am wrong. But it is not bad faith.