El Gs little buddy busted for PEDs

I'm pretty sure they were in different training groups, not that it really matters. Even if that is the case, it's still quite alarming. El G's SIGNIFICANTLY slower teammate/rabbit busted for EPO... hmmm... I wonder how many of El G's army of RABBITS has been busted for PEDs hahahahaha kind of fishy when your rabbits are cheating to keep up with you, but it certainly doesn't prove anything. 99% of runners would need EPO to rabbit for El G or Morceli or Jim Ryun or whoever else in a workout.

somehomodude wrote:

I'm pretty sure they were in different training groups, not that it really matters. Even if that is the case, it's still quite alarming. El G's SIGNIFICANTLY slower teammate/rabbit busted for EPO... hmmm... I wonder how many of El G's army of RABBITS has been busted for PEDs hahahahaha kind of fishy when your rabbits are cheating to keep up with you, but it certainly doesn't prove anything. 99% of runners would need EPO to rabbit for El G or Morceli or Jim Ryun or whoever else in a workout.

I was looking for a post like this before I started my own thread. This makes El G look pretty bad as many will assume he was drugged too. I love El G, but I still wonder whether he was clean or not. If the English trio could run 3:29 with the help of blood doping, maybe it's impossible for any human to run faster clean. I don't know. It just sucks we can't tell the cheaters from the rest.

Also, if El G did dope, can we assume that guys like Bekele are doped as well? I would think so, but again, there is no proof.

He's not El G's little buddy.

"If the English trio could run 3.29 with the help of blood doping........."

shut up fool.

"Also, if El G did dope, can we assume that guys like Bekele are doped as well? I would think so, but again, there is no proof."

-good morning, son! wake yer ass up...it's time for school. you must be excessively naive or just blind with admiration.

You talkin to me?

let me put it this way: I don't know El G or Kenny B, but I have met Steve Cram, and talked to him about this subject. I didn't hold back. In fact, I told him what I thought about Marion Jones.

Also,if he was doped, then my name is Haile G.

unabashed naivete wrote:

"Also, if El G did dope, can we assume that guys like Bekele are doped as well? I would think so, but again, there is no proof."

-good morning, son! wake yer ass up...it's time for school. you must be excessively naive or just blind with admiration.

Let me guess: you really don't know anyone and don't have any real contact with El G, Geb, Cram, etc.

"If the English trio could run 3.29 with the help of blood doping........."

I don't know about Ovett, Coe and Cram, but I'm pretty sure Aouita was not doping. The man didn't even drink tea because he thought caffine was bad....

wahhh?

You must be really stupid? Aouita was just pi$$ed because all of the good stuff came after the end of his career. Aouita was a coach in Australia and supposedly got the boot because he was pushing HGH and EPO saying that if you are not doing them - then you will not win a medal in anything or, do you think that you can win against someone who is equally talented but doing HGH and EPO?

Some people listened - others did not.

Aouita also traveled with a contingent of Marlboro sucking chain smokers - doubtful that he thought tea was "bad".

This is only the beginning.

See my question elsewhere.

what was the question?

lets just face it. all 99% of elite athletes are doped to there eyeballs on something or another. id be very suprised if haile, el-g, bekele, armstrong, mottram etc are clean.

I doubt Haile, ElG, Bekele are clean.

Why is this guy getting patronized so much as El G's little buddy/pacemaker? He won a silver a worlds and ran 3:30.xx, I think this is a bigger deal than the letsrun headline/thread topic make it seem. He was a very good runner in his own right- if it was Youssef Baba dubbing him a "pacemaker"/"little buddy" would be appropriate because he had no titles, and making a final was the best he could do. Kaouch actually had some individual accomplishments that are now tainted.

suspect wrote:

I was looking for a post like this before I started my own thread. This makes El G look pretty bad as many will assume he was drugged too. I love El G, but I still wonder whether he was clean or not.

If you honestly haven't realized by now that El G, Geb, Morcelli, Komen, Bekele and so on are/were doped to the gills I sincerely doubt you ever will.

reality is fun wrote:

If you honestly haven't realized by now that El G, Geb, Morcelli, Komen, Bekele and so on are/were doped to the gills I sincerely doubt you ever will.

I don't want realism! I want magic!

I think the point is that he was basically ElG's right hand man. They trained together constantly, used the same methods and same coaches. So, the conclusions to draw about ElG dwarf this guy's conviction.

(Of course anyone who doesn't think ElG was doped to the gills is an idiot anyways, so I don't know why this bust would change any minds.)

Are you kidding, an early retirement?! El G stil had his world records and he finally accomplished, on his third try, what he was questing after.. finally got the GOLD in his event (not to mention in the 5). Why would Lance keep going? He equaled the record of five consecutive wins by Indurain and then put his own stamp on the Tour with two more. Oh yeah, he had this thing called testicular cancer before he did this. What more do you want? Funny how it happens when people want to retire when they've done everything expected of themselves and then some..