Was having a discussion on the SLR with some teammates about which elite athletes are you most convinced (past or present) were/are clean: specifically who is the highest performing clean athletes
Obv it's not about who you're favourite athlete is, but which elite athletes would you be willing to bet your life savings on being clean?
There are certain fan favourites that there is just too much doubt over, whether it be:
- Some consider a tainted group: NOP, Bowerman
- proximity to a popped athlete/training partners: Eliud's group, Dibaba family
- shared management/agent: too many to name
- banned Nations or vast history of doping: Russia, USSR, some old Chinese times, Kenya
- athletes everyone screams must've doped from crazy performances: ElG, Kiptum, Eliud, Bekele, Faith, Sifan, Chep'n'getich, Kiplimo, Gidey, P.Radcliffe, Chebet, Cheptegei, Hull, Hunter-Bell
- never received a ban, but we got dodgy news about them: Lagat, Amdouni, Makhloufi
The further you go back, the more difficult it can be to choose some names.
My suggestions:
- Nick Willis
- Pre
- Cam Levins
- Laura Weightman
- Jack Rayner & Brett Robinson
- Stephen Scullion
- Joe Klecker, Morgan McDonald, Beamish, Hoare, Nuguse
- Hocker & Teare
- Laura Muir
- Dina Asher Smith
- Chris Thompson
- Justyn Knight
- Keely
- Abdi Nur
Yes it's obvious I'm British.
Who else?
