sanchobaile wrote:
I want to read Rojo's takedown of why Desi's progression is less suspicious than Lisa's [aside from the positive test and the Eastern European factor] just like he explained re: Wejo's progression.
I'm not familiar with Linden's whole story but some have pointed out she broke 5 as a frosh in college. That's quite good.
But without much thought, my main argument would be that Des Linden trains in a very high profile American group - Hansons. It would be very hard to fathom she's doping as part of that group and that some of the others aren't as well. There have been no ungodly improvements from anyone else in the group.
Nemec is training in the Eastern Bloc and that's where her improvements came. Call it xenophobic but a flight to a foreign country and huge improvement is a lot more suspicious than the big improvement in Hanson's in the USA where drug testing is more stringent.
I'm sure there are some ASU alums who would know more about Linden's lack of amazing success at ASU.
Linden's improvement is indeed dramatic. That's why she's such a great story. Until this positive test, I always thought Nemec's was a great story that no one celebrated. Hence in our previews, I always tried to point out she was born and raised in the US to give her story more publicity.