Have you ever encountered such a pompous clan of doping deniers? Like somehow they are too noble to do it? I love you guys but wow…
Have you ever encountered such a pompous clan of doping deniers? Like somehow they are too noble to do it? I love you guys but wow…
They know they'll never get popped. Everything they do is right at the limit of detection.
Lol. As if anyone will claim their countries athletes dope. Whether they do or not. How dumb. In the US they actually celebrate and worship previously busted dopers. Look at Gatlin, Coleman, Wilson etc etc
Over in Kenya, no matter if doping is completely out of control with essentially everyone doping and with dozens of busts a year, they insist they're clean and protect their own.
Jonnie wrote:
Have you ever encountered such a pompous clan of doping deniers? Like somehow they are too noble to do it? I love you guys but wow…
There have been plenty of Norwegian dopers, like Aham Okeke, Jaysuma Ndure (Sha-Carri style) and most recently Hadi Srour.
While on topic, a very interesting dynamic is the ever-lingering resentment towards Norwegian athletes by Finland, which stems from the national embarrassment they experienced while hosting the Nordic events WC on home soil in 2001. Several Finnish athletes, the "Lahti Six", were busted for HES used in an attempt to cover for EPO. Ever since this incident Finland has pretty much been a non-factor in cross country skiing with the exceptions of Aino-Kaisa Saarinen and Iivo Niskanen, and this has taken a toll on their national pride. They are convinced that Norway is running the best engineered state sponsored and federation protected doping program ever concocted in the history of winter sports. Think Armstronglivs doping accusations, but on a nation-state scale. Like if the DDR knew about it they would fire all their people and hire Norwegians as consultants instead.
This suspicion has been used as a possible explanation for every other exceptional Norwegian result in all endurance sports, given the skiers' alleged opportunity to 'experiment and tune the system to perfection' and share the knowledge afterwards.
The actual reason, which is that almost no countries give a sh*t about nordic events, explains everything. If you count every 15 year old cross country skiing athlete who did an organized race in the 2022/2023, Norway would probably account for 50% alone. The remainder would be Russia 20%, Sweden 15%, Finland 5% and the rest of the world with 10%. And the budgets also reflect this imbalance.
It's like asking why the USA is the best at baseball. No one else cares about it.