How can you be so sure that PEDs are a piece of the bigger picture? In the biggest picture, NOP athletes are still slow. First and foremost, we should only concern ourselves only with PEDs banned by WADA, as there are many PEDs not banned by WADA.The BBC, Propublica "scoop" was in June 2015. USADA has been investigating NOP allegations since at least 2013, and target testing NOP athletes ever since. And yet, despite cooperative testimony from at least 17 NOP athletes and staff, no NOP athlete, current or former, has been found to have committed any ADRV. Indeed, in a recent statement from USADA, they are still investigating whether an ADRV even occurred. If the "leaked report" is the best indication, USADA "believes" a substance not banned by WADA was administered with too much fluid, a method which would be banned, if it occurred, and they are pursuing a sports doctor for allegedly unnecessarily prescribing drugs also not banned by WADA. Maybe, if USADA hasn't found one yet, Rupp and Mo have full knowledge, but there simply are no "duplicitous schemes" to have knowledge of, or be complicit with.Even if this behavior could be construed as "cheating", this doesn't sound like "cheaters of the highest caliber" that should be "banned for life". At worst, if they are "cheaters" at all, they are "cheaters of marginal caliber". This investigation, if anything, may likely only provoke some rule changes, banning what was legal, with no sanctions for previous conduct that was not an ADRV at the time.But it doesn't sound like WADA is receptive to banning thyroid medication, having just considered and rejected it (again), and they made recent changes to the 2018 WADA code, changing 50ml per 6 hours, to 100ml per 12 hours "to allow greater flexibility for the safe administration of non-prohibited therapeutic substances, for example, iron".All part of the big picture.
Rhrhrhrnehrhrh wrote:
Rupp's PRs are the product of hard work, talent and PEDs. Never forget the man behind the boy - Albertus Saladbar.
I have zero doubts Rupp could have run 2:05:59 under optimal conditions back when Coach was running doping tests on his son.
Saladbar and Rupp are cheaters of the highest caliber. As if Rupp (or Mo) had no knowledge of, or weren't complicit with, Saladbar's duplicitous schemes!
Letsnot forget the bigger picture here, friends.
The Rupp's and Saladbar's of the world should be banned from sport for life.