From the quote-pf-the-day article on the front page:
"Yet Mayock's relative successes in what remains the blue-riband athletics event have been disregarded. Even though they have been achieved in the face of legitimate competition from superlative African runners and a less licit challenge from drug-taking Europeans.
'If I look back,' he says, 'quite a number have been banned for drugs. I don't want to mention names but a lot have retired. Without them I would have been very close to a medal. You can't trust anybody any more. And especially when you get to my age you wonder if they were on it for a long time. It is disappointing, really.' "
He seems to be talking primarily about Spaniards. Maybe he is right, and maybe not. But he never really demonstrated he was world-level medal material. This just seems like excuse making of a sort. What do you think?