Sandman wrote:
fallaciousness wrote:3:26.00
These arguments mystify me. Please inform me what the non-doping limit is so we can just ban anyone who runs too fast.
Normally, I agree with you. It's a ridiculous argument. But El G is one of those few people who does seem, quite simply, too good to be true.
If El G was clean, he is BY FAR the greatest mid distance runner in human history. Like, not even close. The times he ran were so ridiculously fast and as was stated before, he ran them many times. I mean, he ran 3:26 three or four times and 3:27 a whole bunch more and then he ran some really fast miles as well. Nowadays, 3:28 is a big deal. That was like an off day for El G.
If El G was clean, then that means people like Jim Ryun, Coe, Snell, and basically everyone other than the people from his era who were close to him (Lagat, Ngeny, and Morceli) were complete ass compared to him.
And maybe he was just that good and he pushed those other guys to new heights as well. I would love for that to be the case. He was and is a sporting hero of mine. But the fact is, it was the height of the EPO era and, as others have said, it's just like Lance's situation. How could it be that someone who DOMINATED everyone else in the most doped era of the sport could be clean? :(