casual obsever wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
To be fair, that in itself, isn't suspicious as there have been multiple plausible scientific explanations as to why it happens to endurance athletes (including this site's favourite steepler).
LOL. No. The opposite is true, as the science shows: you have to use a lot of EPO/blood transfusions to go beyond these ludicrously high thresholds.
Also see the stats: about half of the elite athletes are doping, and only 2% are classed as "likely doping". That speaks for itself.
The very definition of the term 'likely' doping means that you do not HAVE to be taking EPO to reach them. Otherwise that would be a positive test.
He had two samples taken according to the report about the 'likely doping' scenario regarding Farah, his second sample was at normal levels and the likely doping flag was removed.
It's something like only 1/1000 blood scores exceed that level, which is rare but hardly so in a population made up of the highest performance humans on Earth. And even more so when dehydrated such as following a race or tough training session.
1/1000 is a positively huge number compared to the number of elite athletes Vs the general population.
Again Farah might be doping, but these pieces of evidence are weak at best. I want to see vials of EPO like at Aden's bust in Spain.
Or ex-team members accusing Farah of doping based on stuff they saw. Like with Lance.
Not sensationalist media nonsense.