Armstronglivs wrote:
I didn't use "systematic" as I wasn't the poster who did. I am not bound to use the term they did. I am not bound to use your terms either - God forbid. "Systemic" is the more relevant term in this discussion - which is why I used it.
But either term is meaningless to you, as doping doesn't really exist in Kenya - it is all the result of "disproportionate" testing, false positives and contamination through boar offal - your myriad excuses for the current world leaders in doping positives.
If you say there was "no reason to ban an organisation doing everything it could to comply with its WADA obligations" then why was a ban being considered and believed to be imminent? Maybe it had something to do with the sheer numbers of Kenyan athletes who have been caught doping - and continue to do so, as the weekly busts show. No one here lies to themselves as much as you do.
If you are using different words, then you are not responding to the topic, but acting more like the drunk hobo at the train station shouting unintelligible words to nobody.
No one has found the doping in Kenya to be "systemic" either, so both terms are equally irrelevant to this discussion as something that has not been established by any official body, inquiry, study, report, etc.
I'm not so sure a ban was being considered by the AIU at the Rome meeting. Did you ever see any official quote from the AIU? I looked for a comment from the AIU confirming a ban was being considered or imminent, but maybe I missed it. I can understand why Kenya feared a ban, because so many persuadable fans are calling for it.