This post by Renato should be on the front page here at LRC, with the title: Breaking News - Renato Canova states that even though other Chinese athletes back in the 1990's doped, Wang Junxia(still the 3k and 10k world record holder) was the only exception and never doped, because SHE HAD 2 HEARTS!
Incredible. Does he provide any evidence to back up that incredible statement? No. Not so far.
Let's see who has been busted for doping with various substances recently:
Abeba Aregawi, 1500m World Champion-meldonium, (she only used it because she was afraid of losing the shape she already had from years of top class training at altitude, injured, naive, weak mind).
Endeshaw Negesse,2:04 marathoner and winner of 2015 Tokyo marathon, meldonium(same reasons?)
Girmay Birhanu, 2:05 marathoner, substance not identified yet...
Tsegaye Mekonnen, 2:04 marathoner,name mentioned, no confirmation yet?
Other athletes are being investigated and according to the news article, the substances involved are anabolic steroids including testosterone, the stimulant ephedrine, the masking agent diuretic Furosemide, and OTHER BANNED SUBSTANCES..... gosh, I wonder what they might include....
And then we have:
Rita Jeptoo, 2:18 pr and multiple winner of Boston and Chicago marathons, EPO(didn't need it, weak mind)
Matthew Kisorio, 58 min half marathon pr, nandrolone( anabolic steroid, doesn't really count because not blood booster like EPO, even though Matthew said many athletes were using EPO in Kenya).
Liliya Shobukhova, 2:18 marathoner,14:23 5k pr is still the European record,winner of London marathon and multiple winner of Chicago marathon (Did Liliya count as top tier? EPO maybe is effective on top tier Russians but not on top tier KENYANS and ETHIOPIANS BORN, LIVING, AND DOING TOP CLASS TRAINING AT ALTITUDE, trust me, I know, I have lived in the same room with them, they will not even take an aspirin.)
And now we have an old November 22, 2006 article from the Independent, which mentions Jos Hermens, the manager of the great Geb and Bekele, recommending that 3 German athletes should go see Dr. Miguel Angel Peraita in Spain, because he believed some of the Spanish doctor's methods, which included homeopathy, were revolutionary. Dr. Peraita was involved in Operation Puerto, which was a huge doping scandal which involved thousands of doses of anabolic steroids, EPO, and over 200 bags of blood stored in the freezer of Dr. Fuentes, known as "Dr. Blood". We are still waiting today, ten years later,to see if the identities of the 200 bags of blood will ever be made public. There would be lots of interesting names that go with all those bags.
To quote from the article... "I was maybe a little dumb." Hermens said "I should have asked more questions about what Peraita exactly does."
Of all the doctors in the world that Jos Hermens could send his three German athletes to, he recommends this Spanish doctor. (Hermens was just dumb, naive, it is just a coincidence that the doctor was involved in Operation Puerto.)
Jos Hermens just had real bad luck in choosing doctors...
So you can see..... that there is really nothing to see here....so move along now..........
and the nonsense stories continue..................