pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
If you haven't read the IAAF's own report, then you should. You'll realize being smart just doesn't matter. If someone powerful enough at the IAAF wants you positive, it happens.
If they want you never testing positive, that happens too. See Papa Diack's email to Coe's assistant about the Russian positives with Saugy their backup plan.
I've read the report, and you are massively over-playing this to pander to your pet theory that there are athletes with protected status, something for which there has never been any hint of.
The athletes for whom the corrupt activities were intended to benefit were not favoured sons and daughters of the IAAF, they were individuals whose personal circumstances and countries of origin enabled flawed governance and management processes to be abused in order for financial greed to be satisfied.
If Ashenden and Parisotto can be big enough to accept that some of their criticisms and assumptions about the IAAF were wrong (as they have done), then I think forum posters here should do the same.