I like his enthusiasm and knowledge and how up to date he is on individuals.
But I will say, comparing the 1993 Chinese women who have admitted to doping, and their coach Junren barred from coaching as several of his athletes were caught doping, to today's athletes running 4:36 is not going to get him any credibility. That's a mistake.
Perhaps he is correct that a club system will get their athletes down to 4:10 or 4:05, which is more world class and clean, but certainly saying "3:50 in 1993" is to me a red flag.
Some of the Kenyans that did not perform well, he doesn't have great reason as to why, saying, "didn't run well in trials...or all season..." just says that they didn't run well then....because? Off the drugs?
Kenyan has come under great scrutiny for doping. Athletes are getting caught, administrators or getting caught in corruption. I think they didn't perform well because they were not dirty.
Look at Jama Aden's athletes. Somehow he gets raided, 22 athletes are in the room, drug paraphenalia is confiscated and 20 of 22 athletes are tested. Turns out they all test negative. He gets off.
Mysteriously his prize athlete, the one to beat the Chinese-doped performance of 3:50, suddenly can't run any more....ankle this....terrible performance that.
Canova is a smart man, but to suggest that Kenyans don't dope because it doesn't help them is preposterous. They have been caught doping and hell on wheels, they win everything.
Interesting that the women who ran the 10,000m in 29:17 is Ethiopian, where WADA and the IAAF still haven't marched into with the same vigor as they have Kenya.
Canova claimed that EPO makes East African's blood too viscose.
How does he know that? Try a little?