You can't give big name runners passes in this country (or any other) because they are winning races/medals and setting records. A former employee of the NOP made comments that hinted towards the NOP and the methods used within that camp. To go along with the comments he only stayed a short period of time at the NOP. This question has to be asked and good on ROJO for asking.
Because our sport is not maintstream we feel it is the duty of those within the sport and the media who covers them to protect the athletes and blindly support those at the top.
I will continue to cheer for Rupp until proven guilty but I will not be so naive as to think there is not a possibility and maybe a high possibility that he has crossed the line to reach the level he is at. That is unfortunately the world we live in that I enjoy all sports professionally but with a healthy does of skepticism that what I am watching may not be done cleanly/fairly.