I can fully understand some elite runners not wanting to be tested. I spent a lot of time with Billy Mills in the 60s and he didn't want to be tested and I never pursued it. We often still talk about it when the topic comes up. As I mentioned before, tsting is for longitudinal benefits, or to try to identify a problem, or research, when that is reasonable, but as Coach Royal said about passing the football -- 3 things can happen and 2 of them are bad. Testing can be beneficial if in the proper hands and involving willing subjects. It takes special understanding to get involved testing elite athletes in any sport. You have no idea how honored I feel to have had so many athletes let me look at them physiologically. The greatest feeling in the world was to have all 26 of my 1968 Olympic- hopefull subjects return 25 years later to be tested again. I still have a hard time believing a 100% return after 25 years.