Eddie Hellebuyck "'Yeah,' he says, 'I did it.'"

He is sill racing and taking masters prize money when he can find it. That tells you everything you want to know about the MAN . Real man Eddie

Eddie has not made prize money since 2004. Prove me wrong.

It's nice to hear somebody confess for a change. I don't care if he gets prize money now as long as he's clean.

would anyone be willing to buy an insurance policy from that sleazy wife of his?

Calm down Shawn...

you are a F,,ing liar wrote:

Eddie has not made prize money since 2004. Prove me wrong.

ukathleticscoach, I remember the Tour of Tameside, now that you mention it. I lived in the UK from '85 to '87 (still a junior then) I did not realize Hellebuyck was the winner

As USUAL, LRC is Illiterate wrote:

Front page says he admits to using EPO in '94. Nowhere does he admit that. He admits to using EPO 2001 and onward.

Damn, I know it was a RW story, but it was on their site and twitter for hours before being mentioned here.

And they still let this shit coach High School runners.Says a lot about the school athletics director

involved.

fantastically written story. The journalist deserves overtime for this one.

The journalist does an excellent job walking the line of proponent for the confessing man and accuser representing the inflamed public. What a great job.

oklahomanumberone wrote:

fantastically written story. The journalist deserves overtime for this one.

The journalist does an excellent job walking the line of proponent for the confessing man and accuser representing the inflamed public. What a great job.

Agreed!

And there was so much hate on "Duke City Doper" for suggesting that "training in Albuquerque" was code for doping.

And Hamas gives money to help their own. We should probably forgive them, too?

I bashed Eddy on here. I had a good reason for it. He cheated. I do give him credit though for coming 'clean'. It doesn't make it right, but it does take balls to publicly admit you screwed up, especially when your kid sees it. Unlike the vast majority of dopers Eddy earned back a bit of my respect & I wish him well in the future.

Based on my read, Eddie sounded like he was a real scum bag in the 80's, 90's and 00's, cheating on his wife, running a slum lord type operation, turning a blind eye on drug cheats, and finally using EPO himself. But I tip my hat to him. He seems to have turned his life around. He's come clean with his past, and now he's using his running experience more productively, to help high school kids.

But his wife doesn't seem to get it. She worries about the effect of Eddie's confession on HER, and trots out the old "everybody was doing it" line. Her quotes:

"It's fine that Eddie feels like he needs to unburden his conscience, but it shouldn't be at our expense."

"I'm not saying the Eddie didn't make a stupid, terrible mistake, but I think it's important to point out that he is hardly the only American runner of his caliber to use drugs."

The article was fantastic.

So who paid for Eddy's Hummer?

More praise the the writer. Excellent piece.

Cougar hound wrote:

So who paid for Eddy's Hummer?

As a second place masters finisher to Eddy at several races I can attest that I paid for some of his Hummer.

Thank goodness my rusted out car with 250,000 miles is still getting me by as I try to dig myself out of poverty.

Honestly I think that was one of the best running articles I've ever read. Reading through it invokes some different emotions from wanting to feel bad for the man to thinking he is a worthless human being. Give the man some credit for coming clean. Although she is only mentioned briefly Eddy sounds much more like an honest person over the whole ordeal than Deeja Youngquist.

wow. his wife sounds like a real winner. what the heck is wrong with people? she seems to be a good fit for selling in surance. maybe she'll go all the way and become an attorney or something.