Coevett wrote:
But yes, if 45% of Arabs/Africans dope, and lets say a similar number of Soviet bloc athletes dope, then that means if only 30% of athletes worldwide dope, then the percentage of Western athletes doping is likely to be a lot less than 30%, especially if you remove black North American/British sprinters from the equation and focus on white middle-distance runnners. Perhaps you can see the maths in that?
LOL, sure you think that only Western athlete's don't dope?
Tell us why was professional road cycling infested with doping back in 1990s-2000s? Because of Africans & Eastern Europeans??
Do you know that 75% of the urine samples from 1998 T. De France that were retrospectively tested for rEPO went back positive?
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At the time of the race there was no official test for EPO. In 2004, 60 remaining antidoping samples given by riders during the 1998 Tour, were tested retrospectively for recombinant EPO [...] The results of test method A applied retrospectively in 2004, were published to have returned 44 positives and 9 negatives, while the last 7 samples did not return any readable results due to sample Degradation [...] This publication revealed, that the 9 negative samples belonged to 5 riders, of which 2 have admitted to have used EPO before or during the 1998 Tour de France [/quote ]
Tell us, how is it possible since Eastern European participation was non existing??
I don't understand, didn't these riders came from countries with 200 or so year history of democracy, open justice, and the principle of 'fair play' as a leading moral value???