Link wrote:
When you're own brother said you were compromised on this, he really wasn't kidding. This 'report' (which boils down to 'trust me', but I can't tell you anything....)has to be one of the saddest things I've read on this site.
Ah well, another doping story swept under the rug this year because we sully the reputation of track and field. T
Nothing could be further from the truth.
From speaking to Paula, I was very confident in the next few months that documents/reports would come out explicitly addressing her blood values and showing she had nothing to hide.
If 6 months from now nothing had come out on her behalf about her blood values, then I would have raised an alarm/changed my stance.
When I spoke to Gary before Beijing and Paula in Beijing, I was given the impression that they had no problem explaining away their blood values but wanted to do it on their own schedule. At the time, her name hadn't come out so there was no rush and they felt there was no context to anything and the attempt was simply to link Paula to the Russians.
Paula showed me her blood values and we talked about them. I did not disclose this because Paula did not want me saying I had seen the values being a license for the British press to link her names to them. Her name has not been published.
Part of Paula's reason for delaying was because she believed some had acted in bad faith in how they were trying to treat her. Along those lines, I am currently trying to confirm one story, but if it is true, I said she should sue.
I understood her rationale for staying quiet at the time but I did not think it was the best course of action. I thought the information would leak and essentially that is the case now.
I spoke to her a couple of hours ago, she was running into some school thing for her kids, but said I no longer needed to be quiet about what we talked about in regards to her blood values so I'll have more on that later.
I've got to go drive from Austin to Ft Worth.