hulksmash wrote:
I'm a big Haile fan, but the logic that damned Armstrong dooms Haile as well. In an era where everyone is using, records are broken left and right and many of those athletes test positive, you just cannot be the most dominant guy in the field and be clean. There are no natural anomalies or genetic dispositions powerful enough to allow one to destroy field after field of Golden League runners aided with something as effective as EPO, unless you yourself are also aided. Haile's dominance stretched for years under these conditions.
Now, was Haile a goon like Lance? A completely destructive sociopath? Doesn't appear to be the case.
Exactly
There is no possible way Haile and Bekele were clean-they were on the stuff before their spikes even hit the track
Look what happened to Greg lemond when the peleton started using EPO
The greatest natural talent of all time fell off a cliff in cycling terms- he said it himself