I think speak for a big cohort of track fans who deeply want past, current and future drugs cheats out and outed, but who don't agree that fast times alone are enough to implicate someone as a cheat.
Of course, I play the same game as everyone else in my mind. Who is more improbable, el G or Gebrselassie? Personally, I'd love to see el G. caught; yet somehow I'd be heartbroken to learn that Geb was cheating. Is there any logic to this? No. It's pure tribalism on my part of the sort that makes someone a Yankees or a Red Sox fan. It has nothing to do with whatever evidence may exist about ethics of these two athletes.
What we should really hope for is empirical evidence either linked to testing the bodies of those athletes or by the testimony of people associated with those athletes. I would very much like to know if the middle and long distance records of the sub 3:45, sub-13, sub-27, sub 2:07 eras are bona fide.
Simply saying "nobody could run those times without cheating" is a cop out. Why? Because the EPO era also coincided with other changes in the circumstances of elite African athletes, such as better coaching, better material circumstances, and greater freedom to chose agents that would help their careers--factors that in earlier eras hampered the success of African runners. I see no reason to discount the possibility that sorting out these issues--without EPO--would lead very quickly to the amazing times we saw in the 1990s. Does this mean that EPO was not also part of the story? Of course not, but to say that, baring empirical evidence, EPO is the only way such progress could be made, feels to me like believing in magic. The talent pool that produced the East African stars of the 60s, 70s, 80s, could definitely lead to what was achieved in the 90s and later--even without drug cheating.
I have some faith that a greater truth will prevail. But we need to keep the pressure relentlessly so that, as we move forward in time, the disgruntled trainer, the guilty athlete, the discredited official, choose to speak out about what they know--so that these people realize they have an audience who cares. I hold out hope for this, just as I hold out hope that some people were clean. I realize that some will call me overly idealistic, but for me, this sport is all about hope for the progress of human achievement, whether it be in athletics purely, or in the administration of athletics.