[quote]spongerobert wrote:
Levins' performance really started to tank after the David Epstein article on Salazar and doping came out.
In the winter of 2015, Levins had completed his famous double at the Armory, making short work of Galen Rupp in the two-mile race after having dropped a sub-four mile only half an hour earlier. Then in May 2015, he broke the Canadian record for the 10,000 metres.
Then in June 2015, Epstein published his series of articles exposing the shady practices of Salazar and his protegés. Levins gave a particularly awkward interview on the subject at the time:
https://youtu.be/w7pI0mar5rA
Since then his performance has been disastrous - fifth in a not particularly strong field at the Pan Am Games, a failure to advance to the 5000 final at the World Champs, a failure to advance to the 3000 final at World Indoors. And now this: a dismal finish in a slow-paced race in the Canadian Champs.
I can't help but think that there must be a connection here.[
Great points