EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DANIEL MATTHEWS: 20 years ago he was charged with using performance enhancing drugs. Before long, he was behind bars for fraud and then for dealing heroin.
'if you're in the finals of the Olympic Games, I'm going to say there's a 99 percent chance you're dirty,' he says. 'I wouldn't even try to train you for it… I know pharmacology when I see it.'
Imagine a female distance runner, already training at a high level, going from a 15:15 5k (1156 WA-points) to an 8:35 3K (1214 WA-points) in only 2 months. Oh wait. That’s happened.
1214+ has only been achieved four other times in collegiate history; 3x by Mu in the 800m and once by Wayment in the Steeplechase, both Olympians.
Regardless of how many people are actually doping, it's clearly in his interest as a convicted doper to say that everyone's doing it. I'm not sure why we'd take his word for this as if he's revealing something rather than trying to cope with the fact that he's a cheater. He's not a whistleblower, he's just saying that everyone is just as much a cheater as him, so he's not actually that bad. Why would you value what he says on this at all?
Imagine a female distance runner, already training at a high level, going from a 15:15 5k (1156 WA-points) to an 8:35 3K (1214 WA-points) in only 2 months. Oh wait. That’s happened.
1214+ has only been achieved four other times in collegiate history; 3x by Mu in the 800m and once by Wayment in the Steeplechase, both Olympians.
That’s because she was on the path to 8:34; there’s nothing to see here.