I already explained several times WHY I don't believe in any doping effect for this type of athletes.
I know exactly WHAT MY ATHLETES USE AS NUTRITION, and, how I described, NEVER THEY USED ANY SUPPORT, also legal.
So, this is the list of the athletes I coached in long distances (I give the example of 10,000m, because some year ago there was a pseudo-scientific work speaking about an advantage between 40.0 and 1:10 in this event, if the runners take EPO) :
26'30" Nicholas Kemboi (from 28'19" with 50 days of
REAL training)
26'38" Ahmed Hassan (Albert Chepkurui)
26'49" Moses Mosop
26'52" John Korir
26'52" Mark Bett
27'26" (WR in altitude) Wilson Kiprop (equivalent to
26'45" at sea level)
So, since I know all these athletes didn't use any support, DO YOU THINK I CAN REALLY BELIEVE THAT, IF I GAVE PED, I COULD HAVE 6 ATHLETES UNDER 26' ?
The fact that for this kind of talent is possible to increase their total volume of blood of 20-25%, is something investigated by a group leaded by Bengt Saltin, that can be considered one of the most prepared researchers with top athletes (Saltin and his equipe went to Kenya in 1995 for researching, using biopsy, the genetical difference between the muscular fibers of Kenyans and athletes from Scandinavia). I think that, if you are interested, you can find (also in Internet) some data about this research.
After all, I want to define precisely some points :
1- While top coaches, of all events, don't speak about doping (to be silent is always a good solution for not having problems), I'm very clear in my ideas, knowing that I go to face incredulity from people already having in their mind the stereotype of "all top athletes doped"
2- While almost all people posting in letsrun speak about something they heard, I speak about FACTS coming from 40 years of training with athletes of different levels
3- NEVER I read something about a PERSONAL EDUCATION against doping. Always we speak about "not cheating", about the damage for the health, about the need to make harder any type of control. BUT NEVER WE SAY THAT 90% OF DOPING HAS THE ONLY EFFECT TO PUT MONEY IN THE POCKET OF DOCTORS / MANAGERS (and may be also Coaches), without enhancing any performance.
4- I think is time to have a different way for educating athletes against doping. First thing, explaining that is possible to train very hard, to recover and to have results only thru training. For me, BEFORE BEING A CHEATER, some athlete using a lot of pharmacs (also legal) is STUPID, because spend a lot of money for something that doesn't have significative result. If you see the room of a cyclist during Giro d'Italia or Tour de France or Vuelta, you see not less than 20 different pharmacs that he takes every day. Supposing that 3 of them can really enhance performances and/or aiding to recover in short time, THE OTHER 17 ARE FOR LIMITING THE COLLATERAL EFFECTS of what they use.
5- Today, money about the World of Sport dramatically decreases. The only sector where we continue to have an increase of investment is in ANTIDOPING. Also if everybody understands we need a specific deterrent against this practice, THE MAIN GOAL OF EVERY SPORT CAN'T BE TO PRODUCE MONEY (without any moral value) AND TO USE ANY SYSTEM FOR THIS FINAL TARGET. And, one of the ways for producing money is to multiplicate the Antidoping Agencies, instead using some budget FOR EDUCATING ATHLETES TO THE TRUE VALUES OF SPORT. I cant agree, for example, with a government that continues to invest in POLICE, cutting budgets for EDUCATION. Sorry, my World is a place where I want to live giving credit to other people, not thinking that everybody is able to do something better than the average is "doped" (not only in sport).
6- Finally, because everybody knows my position about training and performances (simply I refuse the idea of any pharmacological support for training better), I have a lot of athletes asking to be technically followed BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IN A CLEAN ACTIVITY AND HAVE STRONGER MOTIVATION THAN ATHLETES LOOKING FOR MATERIAL ADVANTAGES ONLY.
So, believe me, the most part of athletes WANT to be clean, and to see where they can arrive, with their strength only.