For EpoPian- On Drug Testing in Ethiopia

This makes me really happy and I feel it should make others happy too. I respect the Ethiopian runners immensely and I seriously think that this is just great. Whether or not people will still have thier doubts is up to them, but the fact that all 18 runners tested negative throughout the course of the year is really great regardless.

So what?

No one tested positive at any cycling events either - yet there was rampant PED use going on. Who is Geb's "manager"?

That is all that you need to know.

So you trust the drug tests? If so, how do you explain how Cyclists can take several different performance enhancing drugs including Growth Hormone, Anabolic Steroids and EPO without failing drug tests?

Epo is out of your system in just under 12 hours. human

growth hormone is a naturally occurring substance, so if

you don’t take too much you can usually get away clean .

However I don’t know how long the anabolic steroids take to

clear I believe that they usually take weeks

Informed Opinion wrote:

So what?

No one tested positive at any cycling events either - yet there was rampant PED use going on. Who is Geb's "manager"?

That is all that you need to know.

Same manager for Suzy Favor, Sarah Schwald, Susan Scott, Helen Clitheroe, Jon Brown and Robert Kronberg, Are they all cheats because of Jos' history?

Sadly it seems too many people think their are only two types of athletes, those that cheat and those that haven't been caught yet.

this was a response to those individuals that said there is no out of competition testing in africa because it is too far .. and underdeveloped.

I don't know if 18 is a lot or not.. but we only have a few elite athletes.. and it seems that we are being held to the same standard as everyone else.

ever since bekele girlfriend died while out running and reading it was because she was doing something naughty (you can make jokes here!) just cant trust him or his so called mentor (or coach or whatever he does for him) geb, both up to no good me thinks, just my opinion.

Tuone Udaina wrote:

Informed Opinion wrote:

So what?

No one tested positive at any cycling events either - yet there was rampant PED use going on. Who is Geb's "manager"?

That is all that you need to know.

Same manager for Suzy Favor, Sarah Schwald, Susan Scott, Helen Clitheroe, Jon Brown and Robert Kronberg, Are they all cheats because of Jos' history?

Jon Brown's manager is George Gandy.

cant trust them wrote:

ever since bekele girlfriend died while out running and reading it was because she was doing something naughty (you can make jokes here!) just cant trust him or his so called mentor (or coach or whatever he does for him) geb, both up to no good me thinks, just my opinion.

and an educated one at that.

hmmmm wrote:

So you trust the drug tests? If so, how do you explain how Cyclists can take several different performance enhancing drugs including Growth Hormone, Anabolic Steroids and EPO without failing drug tests?

It's not that I trust the drug tests...we all knwo how flawed they are, but it's better to know that all these guys tested negative for a year, then that they tested positive...idk...I'd like to think that their success is natural, but I realize how strong of a possibility there is that it isn't.