Mo Trafeh, 2-time FL finallist, 8-time US champ, US 25k record holder, has been caught with EPO, will retire from sport

first, he had no training partners (at least in the US) as nobody would train with him. second, I doubt he micro dosed as he knew when he would be tested (only at races apparently) and could thus time his cycles accordingly. if he was micro dosing, he would have been barely winning instead of beating a 27:30 guy like tim nelson by two minutes!

Uking snobs wrote:

What a ridiculous defense by Trafeh. "It was the first time that I purchased it". That's pure BS!!! If you were being tested as much as him would you just randomly decide to try to start doping for the first time? No way! He's been micro-dosing for years and staying out of the spotlight until a major race was on the line. And who the heck was he asking for counsle about doping? And how the heck did he know how much and how to take EPO? Was he just going to figure it out online? A LOT of questions need answering by him.

It's long been speculated that he was a user and many in the elite circle thought that he was sketchy. I also think that this implicates those he trained with...

The point of my rant: STOP DEFENDING TRAFEH!

...and one more thing

25km has to be the most stupid distance ever that's why a nobody held the record

Wrong about the training partners (ever heard of Khalid_Khannouchi?) and you are also wrong about the EPO. No one that uses EPO these days uses it all out like in the 90's. You can get a huge boost with far less, especially if you response well to it.

someone in the know. wrote:

What a ridiculous defense by Trafeh. "It was the first time that I purchased it". That's pure BS!!!

The testing results support his claim. Unless the test proves something, there is nothing to see in the past. Putting Mo T. on a torture rack to extra a LRC-approved confession of past use would be pure BS!!!!!!

Not from CA wrote:

The guy basically fell off the map after high school then re-emerged straight to the top with 1:01 half marathons.

You guys are overreacting regarding this fact (assuming it's true). A 1:01 half marathon is mediocre. It hardly screams doping. The fact that he was so successful with it says more about US road running than it does him doping.

A 1:01 half marathon is what you should expect for someone who ran his times in highschool. It's only equivalent to a ~28 minute 10K or a 13:2X 5k. That hardly says doping. It says that US road running sucks.

^ Mo, get off the internet and get back to writing checks to the guys who you stole money from. and send it certified, expedited, the whole nine yards, just like your doping.

Rojo is doing his job as a website reporter, using his independence from any bosses to ask questions most shackled reporters are too afraid to ask. The lawyer is doing his job by trying to make his client appear to be a victim. Mo is doing his job as someone busted by lying and denying.

Rinse and repeat for the next guy busted.

This is not the greatest shocker of all time, I would say, and I am glad that I went to bed bereft of this story last night.

someone in the know. wrote:

^ Mo, get off the internet and get back to writing checks to the guys who you stole money from. and send it certified, expedited, the whole nine yards, just like your doping.

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Ben True tweeted today that Trafeh cost him 35k dollars in 2011.

What "public relations?" This is T&F were talking here

fan of US distance running wrote:

Ben True tweeted today that Trafeh cost him 35k dollars in 2011.

If that is correct, then I have no respect for him.

Uking snobs wrote:

Wrong about the training partners (ever heard of Khalid_Khannouchi?) and you are also wrong about the EPO. No one that uses EPO these days uses it all out like in the 90's. You can get a huge boost with far less, especially if you response well to it.

What doses do you usually take.

How is "Trafeh" pronounced?

tendonitis wrote:

How is "Trafeh" pronounced?

Not sure but it makes me think of Eric Cartman.

I totally buy into the I only had it in case I needed it in the future thing.

I have usually heard it as "tra-FAY."

People were suspicious because he bounced around a lot, never trained with a US-based group for long even when he was hot stuff (allegedly no coach/group wanted to be associated with him) and was known for going to Morocco to train for long periods of time. Morocco has lax drug testing and a long history of doped athletes. He also came out of nowhere after dropping off the map post-HS and set the US road racing scene on fire for a while, but was conspicuously absent at a few races, leading to accusations of dodging testers.

I bet he was flying back from either Morocco or Mexico. Brojos this is really a key clue: where was he flying back from? This will tell us A LOT about doping! Please figure this out!

Rojo,

I completely understand why you asked precisely these questions - they would

have been the questions I would have asked, and which I presume most of your

readers would like to be answered.

However, with your journalist hat on, you should have taken a step back before

you sent off your questions. The way you phrased them, you gave Trafeh and his

lawyer an easy pass. Instead of being super-tough, your questions turned into

softballs, because you crossed the threshold where Trafeh could get away with

not answering them at all.

Next time (and, unfortunately, there will soon be another opportunity), just skip

the rhetorical questions, and only ask the ones where there is no excuse not to

answer them. If in doubt, just show the list to someone else before you send it -

it is sometimes difficult to spot yourself how your own questions could be

perceived.

Querfeldein wrote:

just show the list to someone else before you send it - it is sometimes difficult to spot yourself how your own questions could be perceived.

That's a great idea. Better yet, we can come up with standard questions to ask in advance.

Or, we could just focus on running for a change.

How would joe or Jane rent a cop at an airport know enough to contact wada or USada. How would they even know what epo is and what it is used for?how much was he carrying?