If you could KNOW whether or not one runner doped/dopes, who would you pick?

Diane Modahl

It's a toss-up between Ed Whitlock and Fauja Singh.

Father Time wrote:

It's a toss-up between Ed Whitlock and Fauja Singh.

Strong contender for POTD and so early in the morning!

I would say Bekele. To me he seems the cleanest of that era. If he doped, I would know that they all did. I should also say that I am pretty confident he doped.

IfOnlyWeKnew wrote:

Kenenisa Bekele or El Guerrouj .....if I had to choose I'd say Bekele since he has the 5k/10k WR

el guerrouj..there can be little doubt considering morocco's apalling doping record and his dominance

bekele..i'm afraid it doesn't look good for him either..i heard a few tidbits regarding hermens and his alleged connection to spanish doctors and an incident involving bekele

Bernard Lagat without question! Failed an A Sample early in his Career....has character flaws, traitor, raised Kenyan flag as an American, takes cheap shots during races...etcc etc....this is your guy!

Dirty Brit wrote:

Radcliffe

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RuKiddingMe!!! wrote:

Bernard Lagat without question! Failed an A Sample early in his Career....has character flaws, traitor, raised Kenyan flag as an American, takes cheap shots during races...etcc etc....this is your guy!

What's could possibly be your problem with him raising a Kenyan flag as an American? Ridiculous.

For current American runners:

American:

Male: Galen Rupp

Female: Carmelita Jeter

Retired American runners:

Male: Michael Johnson

Female: Flo Jo

Current international runners:

Male: Usain Bolt

Female: Genzebe Dibaba

Retired international runners:

Male: El G

Female: Paula Radcliffe

Top 10:

1. Usain Bolt

2. Mo Farah

3. El G

4. Bekele

5. Flo Jo

6. Jeter

7. Michael Johnson

8. Makloufi (like another poster said. It would give Manzano the Gold)

9. Galen Rupp

10. Paula Radcliffe

Sadly out of those 10 people I'd assume 8/10 at minimum doped at one point in their career.

Komen. Although for some strange reason I don't doubt the time, it's more of the circumstances. Didn't he run a 7:25 like a couple of days before his record? Who the hell does stuff like that in the distance world?

Carl Lewis, No doubts!

Definitely Paula Radcliffe. I would like to think she hasn't, but no many how many honest sounding denials she makes, it seems hard to believe that a clean non-african ran a marathon three minutes faster than everyone else. In a way, it almost sucks for her that she was so fast, because I think that there is at least a fifty or sixty percent chance that she is just a freak of nature and that she did it clean, but her time is so ridiculously fast that there will always be suspicion.

to add on, I think that it will be good for her legacy when a top African breaks Radcliffe's record, because it will show that it is humanly possible to run 2:15 (while clean of course). I think this would get rid of some of the doubt about her performance.

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hoyasaxa12 wrote:

I think that there is at least a fifty or sixty percent chance that she is just a freak of nature

Right, but if so that wouldn't be clean.

The problem with you claim is, Lagat never failed a test. His sample was tampered with by an overzealous white male in charge of the sample.

In terms of you other claims: Mo Farah fits them to a tee, Lagat does not.

Farah has character flaws galore: Tweet fest, staying away from his wife and kids, anger management issues, lying about running with convicted dopers.

Farah raised an English flag after making a permanent residential change to the US. He is rarely in the US, and even rarer in the UK.

Farah runs with his pointy arms all akimbo. He shoves his way through his competitors after using them by sitting behind them; drafting.

etc.

etc.

etc.

Bolt would be my first one. He is the only reason the public cares about the sport, and to be honest I am skeptical of him.

Next, I would want to check out those women's distance world records: the 1500m, 3000m, 10000m, and the marathon.

Then I would want to check Bekele and Geb.

Finally Alan Webb

Great thread. Interesting to see everyone's perspective.

Some of the people mentioned on here my thought is "definitely dirty."

Others I want to be clean. Gebrselassie is an interesting one. If he was dirty I would prefer not to know and I could go along with the hope he was clean.

If he was clean, I would love to know it for a fact because it would preserve some of my innocence in the sport.

So I would love to know Gebrselassie didn't dope. However, if he doped I was thinking I would rather not know, but that is BS. I want to know for everyone whether they doped or didn't. That is the only way to get a level playing field. Instead we want to believe the athletes we like are clean, but thinking the ones we don't are likely dirty. It's not fair to anyone.

Dirty Brit wrote:

Radcliffe

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