WADA does Q&A with Marathon WR holder Paula Radcliffe

Can't interview Ken Lay. He's dead.

Or, she was "that" gifted and simply trained like an animal doing workouts that most could not dream of.

I watched her run an amazing cross country race in 2001 in Belgium...pure guts! It was the senior race, 7.7 km. The conditions were about as bad as they could be and everyone's legs were mush!

You all want someone to do something amazing, something extraordinary, but when they do, you question it to the nth degree.

Are there dopers out there, absolutely. But unless Radcliffe was tested and proven 100% to be taking anything illegal that aided her in her races, she's innocent.

I was in Belgium for a reason;). I know running and I know it well. When she ran 2:15:25, everything went perfectly, the type of day that we all want and yet rarely happens. Yes, she had pacers, so did others!

The naysayers will call me naive and a Paula fanboy, which is fine but totally false (and one of the reason that I rarely post here).

Many female runners have had pacers in nearly ideal conditions but couldn't match what she did on that day.

So she was on some special juice that made her run that fast that day?

A lot of runners have taken drugs and gotten caught. Show me 100% proof that she took anything that aided her performance or please, give it a rest and accept the fact that something special happened that day.

ukathleticcoach wrote:

Ashenden's Shadow wrote:

Ashenden says her blood levels were not natural (anomalous) and there was a case to answer.

Ed Moses was a great runner in an amateur sport, and had a day job for the most part. Apples, oranges.

Don't get your point on Moses he would be head and shoulders above anyone competing nowadays.

Moses trained a lot more endurance than the usual 400m exponent.

Criminalizing doping would be bad for sport

Someone who knows wrote:

casual obsever wrote:

1) Paula, a freak of nature? She used to get dropped in the 90s, before the field would start accelerating. Like Farah in the last decade.

So either the two didn't train seriously (Perfect Paula, right?) or didn't find the right drug regime before turning 26/27.

Oh yeah, and after the IAAF flagged her for second time in 2005, coinciding with the onset of the 2nd generation EPO test, she turned from a 2:15 to a 2:23 marathoner. Freak of nature?

2) An American sprinter, unbeatable during the 80s, enough said.

You're a fool to suggest Ed Moses was dirty. You obviously don't even know who he was, because he wasn't a "sprinter". He stuck to the one event he was perfectly designed for. He had none of the tell-tale signs of a doper back then. He trained like a machine year after year perfecting his craft.

What? "Tell-tale signs of a doper"

1) baldness.

2) extreme musculature for a technical and almost endurance event.

3) an extremely long winning streak.

4) probably never tested (certainly out of competition).

5) times that are superior to those of current athletes, with better conditioning, techniques and equipment (spikes like the adizero prime sp, superbly are vastly superior to those in Moses day). Tracks built today are designed to help 800m or less at the expense of longer distance events. All nearly 40 years ago.