Evan Jager responds!

Gotta bee wrote:

Once again, if a guy is clean what should he say?

I have never cheated

I have never taken performance enhancing drugs

I have never microdosed

I have never taken thyroid or any other type of medicine for non-medical conditions

Evan Jager, you lie like a rug. Stop being a sociopath like Lance Armstrong and stop pretending like you've never doped.

My main qualm is that there are dopers in every event. To be the best in the world in your event and beat extremely talented athletes that are doping points to the obvious. You are doping! The truth will come out and your petty attempts to deflect it will only harm you even more in the long term.

DaneRauschenberg wrote:

I think the clear, concise, and factual response in the commentary of that article by "Some Badger" speaks well of Evan's judgement, talent, big member, and values:

Some Badger

37 minutes ago

Things about Evan I know:

from Midwest

has great hair

was a Badger

had threesome with two perfect 10 Swedish athletes

is hung like a god damn horse

doesn't need to dope

End of discussion.

I'd believe this before I'd believe "fancy bears wouldn't suddenly publish doctored documents.

Clearly Evan had his pre-marriage priorities in order.

Twin Swedes. Well played my brother, well played.

Nova runner wrote:

Gotta bee wrote:

Once again, if a guy is clean what should he say?

I have never cheated

I have never taken performance enhancing drugs

I have never microdosed

I have never taken thyroid or any other type of medicine for non-medical conditions

That's exactly what thousands of cheaters have said....

It must be breaking the brojos hearts, one of their 'boys'nailed .

Haven't heard much NOP bill Shiite out of them recently....hmmmm.

I would have figured a Mount Rushmore level journalist like Jonathan Gault would have an expose handy...

Once again, we will only know if any official body presents or confirms especially clear evidence of wrongdoing. That is the ONLY way. Anything short of that is conjecture.

It's conjecture to take what Fancy Bears brought forth and say Evan dopes. It's also conjecture to assume Evan's statement is totally truthful.

The saddening, maddening, thing of all this is the role of conjecture. That we won't know unless tangible proof of doping is unearthed.

Maybe I missed this in the thread, but he he rest of his group is fine? Mo Ahmed...

Jagarenman wrote:

"Talent beats hard work when talent doesn't work hard."

Talent also beats hard work when hard work works too hard. Basically, talent almost always beats hard work.

Sad to see Americans turn on and cannibalise the only truly talented American-born distance athlete over a dubious leak. Then again, loyalty isn't a big deal to you guys, is it?

Move to Iten, Evan. Kenyans admire you and will happily have you.

The Real Deal wrote:

YEAH LANCE wrote:

No he wasn't.

Solinksy was already out of college and had run 13:18 the season before completely healthy.

Then, 26:59 / 12:55... no red flags?

No drug positives, no passport sanctions, no scandals, no "likely doping" evidence...clean & green.

Why cast aspersions on someone when there just isn't any evidence? 🤔

When Evan Jager states he has " worked so hard in the running community to build trust" what exactly is talking about???

I think when Jager speaks of building trust, he means he has tried to be very available and accessible to the running community. He is often at Nike events, he was at some of the NXR events in example last Fall. He also makes a point of responding to fans on his Instagram which may seem trivial but he has enough fans that it obviously is a time-consuming venture. A lot of runners, Rupp in example, do not court this level of dialog with their fans. Evan seems very sincere and giving in this regard. If he's clean, all this has to be a total nightmare for him.

YEAH LANCE wrote:

Solinksy was already out of college and had run 13:18 the season before completely healthy.

Then, 26:59 / 12:55... no red flags?

Solinsky was:

A) living in a musky basement in a house with his college friends (near Adams St I think)

B) Sleeping on a couch, not a bed

C) partying too much to be considered an elite athlete taking it seriously

He had a lot of talent and enough to get by while trying to basically live in two different worlds. One of an elite athlete and one of the typical post undergrad party bum in Madison. Jerry begged him to get out of that basement. Also I believe he ran about 13:12 that summer after leaving UW pretty much as soon as he signed with Nike.

Once he made running his absolute priority it did not surprise me he was as good as he was.

Tegenkamp on the other hand may have done something shady. I dont know what but he came back to Madison from one 3-5 month training session (maybe in AZ?) totally bulked up and ripped compared to his twig like build prior. We were talking a very short period of time, November to Jamuary or something like that before he returned. He was already a 13:25ish pro. Super, super shady and I am not the only one to notice. Probably harder for others not in his social circles to notice. But in his defense he was also talented and seemed to hardly run in college because he was always injured. In retrospect, some of those conference, regionals and NCAA appearances were major triumphs. So if he got in consistent training that could explain his 13:25-13:04 jump.

Just wow... wrote:

When Evan Jager states he has " worked so hard in the running community to build trust" what exactly is talking about???

This means he picked a coach who hides from the camera and never gives interviews, for obvious reasons.

Agree.

Let's call Schumacher to the table. Make him answer some questions.

I know this is a side topic but what is the basis for saying this? They could all be clean or dopers but this double standard for presumptions seems kind of tortured.They were both NCAA champs.their speed improved after college. They both signed to run professionally for Nike. Plus, when Solinsky ran 26:59, Rupp ran 27:10.

xcvxvxcvx wrote:

Put it this way: looking at their past records and development opportunities in 2009, Chris Solinsky was much more likely to run 12:55/26:59 than Galen Rupp to go 12:58/26:44.

Another thought wrote:

And the ultimate question is why/how would his name end up on any such document. It's a little like the job postings here - the rumors a lot of times end up being true.

I am sure those guys love sitting around painting NOP as some evil empire and now BTC may very well come under scrutiny that is deserved. What happens when a Dr Brown connection or TUES revealed?

Yes. Ask SF and CS if they know Dr brown.

El Keniano wrote:

Sad to see Americans turn on and cannibalise the only truly talented American-born distance athlete over a dubious leak. Then again, loyalty isn't a big deal to you guys, is it?

Move to Iten, Evan. Kenyans admire you and will happily have you.

"over a dubious leak"- The IAAF confirmed yesterday that these were actually official documents,

"Move to Iten, Evan. Kenyans admire you and will happily have you." - Where he would get tested in blood even less frequently.

Just wow... wrote:

Not sure if this was addressed, but does anyone know what he means in his statement where he says he wants to "maintain the trust that he has worked so hard to build in the running community"? Any know what he's talking about regarding the hard work he has done building trust with the running community on this matter?

It means he wants people to take into account that he is a good-looking white boy from the mid-west.

He's American & therefore on here inoccent