Renato Canova wrote:
For example, I was in Vilamoura when Paula won the WHMCh (I had the number 3 and 4 in the men race), and well remember the weather conditions, with more than 32 degrees for a course totally under a strong sun, without one meter with some shadow. It's obvious that any blood sample taken immediately after that race has to produce final data very far from a "normal" average.
I don´t want to enter to judge Paula, but I trust that she is doped.
I also understand that different human bodies and top trained athletes have a different physiology I also understand that different situations may result in different values of the doping tests. But then why the same persons that thinks so, says that the biological passport is trustful ?
However the main reason I post here and now it´s to say that PAULA RADCLIFFE LIES when she says that the test that she did in the Half Marathon WC in Portugal. I was there present, i know how that was done.
Her doping test in the Half Marathon WC in Portugal, wasn´t done immediately after the race. It´s not true ! The tests of the all runners that were made on that occasion, were done after the race is finished, and all the female participants finished the race and remember she was the winner and the last one female to finished many minutes after Paula. What really happened there it was that she was nominated/elected to be present at the test right after to cross the finish line, and from that moment on, one female member of the judge follows her until the moment she was present to the doctor cabinet/room to collect the test. From the moment she finished and she was nominated to do ten test, passed more or less one hour and half. She goes undress, she takes the shower in the improvised vestiaries they had there, she the dress with another clothes, drinks some liquid, and waits a long period before she gets to the podium. Only after that is when she was tested. But, as usual, with higher temperatures, the collect of the urine sample take from some minutes to some hours, because with dehydrated it´s not easy to piss despite the runner try to drink lots fo liquids to piss, and that takes even hours.
Besides, it was very easy to detect if the warm of that day have some effect to higher the test values. It´s just to check what were the value and the effect of the high temperature on the other runners that were tested on the same occasion.