Due to the complete overload of hypocritical and ludicrous accusations and conspiracy theories being incubated on these message boards, it's time for some truth in regards to Galen.
Galen is not on any "magical potions", "special medicines", "recovery juices", etc., etc., etc. In college, he was on a thyroid medication because he had a thyroid imbalance and he took the medicine to correct the imbalance. This wasn't some corner-cutting effort to lose weight, synthesize EPO production, or mask the effects of over-training. He has been unfairly made a villain (of sorts) by the people on this board due to his once use of thyroid medication, which is pathetic because the "other" group at Nike are also all on thyroid medication, having been sent to visit Dr. Brown by their own coach. Sadly, these boys (recently likened to the Harry Potters of pro track in a blog) are more content to do the exact same methodology as some in the NOP while publicly ridiculing, alluding to potential cheating, and consuming themselves with outright jealously than speaking up about their own TUEs and furthering the cause of transparency. This should not be a surprise to anyone because during their days at Wisconsin, many from this group would spent weekend nights drunkenly prank calling Galen and morphing his name into a homophobic slur. The jealous y that by now has boiled over was already simmering back then. Remember when Chris Solinsky tried to put his arm in front of Galen to block him from passing him at the line at the 2007 Oregon Twilight? There was a reason behind this type of behavior and, sadly, not much has changed since then. It is completely misleading for only one side of this story to be carried by this site and further blown out of proportion by the knowledge-less on these message boards. Here we are clamoring for American relevancy at the word stage in this sport and, once we have it, we dismiss it as something that isn't real. The problem with this sport in our country used to be that we didn't work hard enough. Now, it is the fact that we dismiss hard work and results as not honest. When Chris Solinsky ran 26:59 at Stanford in 2010, no one was denouncing his achievement as a result of altitude tents, Nike facilities, and synthetic thyroid. Why then do we have a double standard when it comes to Galen?
Perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of this campaign of lies and bias is that Galen, as an individual, is overlooked. People here are quick to applaud Nick Symmonds' many sleazy publicity stunts yet could care less about the guy who keeps his head down, works hard, and gets it done. Galen is the perfect ambassador for this sport. There is nothing scandalous about him.