http://www.theguardian.com/spo...athletics1http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/11852423/Paula-Radcliffe-defends-herself-against-claims-of-doping-but-does-it-stand-up-to-scrutiny.html"Such partial and historic data is of little value on its own, and, can only result in further misinterpretation and speculation. One expert said to me that trying to evaluate the data in question, shorn of context, is like trying to put speed values on a car without knowing whether the readings show miles per hour or kilometers per hour.” – Paula Radcliffe
Who the hell is Paula Radcliffe to say that when she made “untrained judgements” on Olga Yegorova in 2001
In 2001, Paula Radcliffe protested Olga Yegorova's clearance to run the World Championships, even though Yergorova was cleared because the test was faulty and did not meet IOC standards. Now Radcliffe is claiming her own blood tests don't meet testing standards, therefore we should ignore them? Yeeeeaah?
Radcliffe now refuses to release her blood values because in doing so it would violate her right to due process, the same due process that she wanted to suspend in the case of Yegorova. She’s saying it unfair for the untrained public to decipher the nuances of sophisticated blood data. Who the hell is Paula Radcliffe to say that her untrained judgements in 2001 are valid, but the general publics untrained judgements aren’t valid today?
Adding more self-inflicted wounds, Radcliffe is now claiming that some her blood values were distorted by post-race dehydration. How is it that only Radcliffe’s dehydration caused extreme unlikely blood values, but not the others who competed in the same races?
Radcliffe wants to deny her competition the same due process that she hopes she can abuse to shield her from her own extremely suspicious blood tests. That's the worst kind of cheat. As it stands now, Radcliffe is looking more and more like Lance Armstrong and Alberto Salazar…possibly without the violent temper and vengeful threats. Has Radcliffe ever been to Alberto’s clandestine medical lab?
In the history of the sport two runners, both of them women, stand out as the extreme edge of performance when compared to their peers. They are Paula Radcliffe and Florence Griffith Joyner. At least with Flojo it could be argued that her WR was aided by a broken wind gauge. We now know that Radcliffe's extreme WR was aided by an impossible coincidence of extremely anomalous blood tests. What are the chances?
Radcliffe lives in Monaco to cheat her home country out of taxes. She's famously on record for wanting to cheat Yegorova out of her due process. Now she expects us to believe that her extremely suspicious blood tests aren't the result of cheating? Lady, you made your bed now lay in it. Apply the same standards to yourself that you applied to Yergorova!
Whether or not she’s clean or dirty, Paula Radcliffe owes Yegorova an apology.