A politically incorrect thread deleted???
Well, I will at least respond to one of the reader's questions.
\"I have couple of comments(questions) CzechGuy, and if want to response that would be great!
ONE: What year did Bernard Lagat get caught using EPO?
SECOND: Have you ever noticed that African runners who come to America never end up quite as good as those who stay in Africa (all parts of Africa). Hardly ever, look at the last 20 years and the hundreds of Africans who come here to run but never end up quite as good as those back at home(almost never and there have been many). Hundreds and hundreds of Africans back at home can run under 13(5K)and 27(10K) but only if they stay in Africa! Ever notice that?
if they come here they are lucky if they break 28 or 13:30!
thanks if you response\"
ONE: Lagat was caught in August 2003, several months after Rosa\'s natural talent Chepchumba. The B-sample was negative. However, read this link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7516484.stm
Curiously, one month before, just before Kenyan athletic trials, another prominent Kenyan Wilfred Bungei caught pneumonia and ended in a hospital for one week. One month later, he rapidly destroyed all microbes in his body and declassed the whole world\'s elite in the best time of that season and his 2nd life\'s best (1:42,52). I have heard that his cosmically famous trainer Cenato Ranova (or what\'s actually his name?) now uses pneumonia for boosting the performance of his athletes.
LOL
SECOND: The picture we are getting clearly suggests that the African elite is doped. Too many things simply fits into the puzzle: the rather mediocre performances of Africans before 1995, the stellar explosion during the \"miraculous winter\" 1995-1996 (I want to have a copyright for this term!), their quick levelling off after mere 3 years, the incredible improvements of unknown or previously stagnating runners, the sudden fall of performances after the announcement of the first EPO test in 2000, the doping cases of Mourhit and Boulami, the doping case of Chepchumba - who are all runners from the company that skyrocketed around 1995!
The only elite Africans, who were clean, were those from the early 90\'s. In the 800/1500 m, they ran 1:43-1:45 and 3:32-3:34 consistently for 7 years, and didn\'t look like supermen at all. I think the first pioneer of EPO in Africa was Yobes Ondieki in 1993. The next year, Gebreselassie and Sigei followed. Frankly, I would like to know, who were the trainers or agents of these men. In 1995, the European managers in Africa saw, what could be done, and started to inject promising Kenyans on a mass scale. I think the number of cheats was not especially high; for example, in the 10 000 m it was always 2-3 men, who ran sub-27:00 times. In the 1500/5000 m, it was about ten men. However, they showed the strength of EPO.
Westerners were easily fooled that \"natural wonders from Africa\" came on track and one of the biggest charades in the history of sport began. We believed that they had to be clean, because they just came straight from nature and couldn\'t afford drugs. In reality, it was an incredibly naive idea; they were already managed by Europeans and their propensity to doping, motivated by poor economic conditions, was actually much much stronger than in Europeans.
As for the depth of talent in Africa, the picture is clearly distorted by the cheats and faked \"juniors\". East Africans by far don\'t have such a talent for the 800/1500 m, as current historical stats suggest, and they even don\'t possess an ideal body type for the marathon (maybe a surprise for many, but it\'s really true). Yes, they clearly have much more talented runners for the 10 000 m, but again not so many, how the current stats suggest.
I have worked all available studies and I am just finishing a page about athletic genetic. I will hopefully post a link here within the next days and I will show you, how I got to these assumptions.