Clerk wrote:
jeff tallon wrote:a lot of people seem to think that because shes scottish,and ran 4.07 in 2013,shes clean.i dont know if she is,or not,but if she were chinese,russian,moroccan,turkish, or ukrainian,and ran 4.07 in 2013,and then ran 3.55 in 2016,there would be an outcry,and a massive amount of condemnation.no turk has ever ran as fast as she has,no american either.russia has been banned from athletics,yet none of their heavily drugged superwomen have run as fast as laura muir,and no soviet has run 3.55 since the 80s.
Scotland doesn't have history of a doping culture. Scottish coaches haven't been linked to doped athletes. UKAD has shown massive incompetence (purposeful or not), but seemingly has more integrity than IAAF or the NADOs of Russia, Turkey or Morocco.
Context matters.
Those aren't reasons to say she is clean. Rather, that context is the reason why there will be a different reaction from Muir than Hellen Obiri, who has a very similar profile of results.