Arguing with you about your idol is pointless. What I will say is that my list concerns my sense, plus evidence where there is any, about who was clean or was at least subject to unannounced tests with limited corruption concerning the results.
I believe that Coe's speed had a lot to do with his strength training and his gains might well have come in part in that era from steroids together with a very smart strength training program. I am suspicious of athletes with particularly technical programs, especially involving weight trainers, who very often work with steroids. A lot of Cram's lack of flat speed is based on the fact that he did not strength train at Coe's level and perhaps equally importantly did not seem to go for serious sprinting workouts. All of Cram's faster training that I have seen was done at target race paces of 800m or above, but on short rest of 15 seconds per 100m run. Specific training is very important in running sub 46, like Coe. Cram ultimately may have stayed healthier longer because he was not trying to run faster than 25 seconds for 200s in workouts, but it certainly hampered both his acceleration, which told in the 1500m against Coe in 1984 (when, however, Cram was not at full strength), and his 400m time.
Everyone liked Cram; he was not known like Coe and Aouita for turning to a major strength training program; Cram had far more natural talent than Coe, running 3:57 at an age that Coe was nothing all that special (at 15, Coe ran 2:00/4:04 1500;
"At Loughborough, he met coach George Gandy, who helped Coe transcend previous performances through more core strength training and more intense interval training sessions.
“When I arrived at Loughborough in the late 1970s some of the conditioning work this guy gave me provided the basis for much of what I achieved. It was revolutionary stuff.”"
Coe
12 y.o.
13.4, 29.2, 65.5, 2:32, 5:24 (1500m), 11:20 (3000m)
13 yo.
28.6, 63.5, 2:21, 4:32, 9:48
14 y.o.
12.2, 24.9, 56.5, 2:08, 4:18, 9:20
15 y.o.
2:00, 4:04, 8:52
16 y.o.
51.8, 1:57
17 y.o. stress fracture (at this age Cram ran 3:57 for the mile)
18 y.o.50.3/1:54/3:45
A year or two later, he dropped to 1:47 at Loughborough.
Here is the progression:
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800
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16: 1:56.0
17: 1:55.1 (injured most of this year)
18: 1:53.8
19: 1:47.7
20: 1:44.95
21: 1:43.97
22: 1:42.33
23: 1:44.7
24: 1:41.73
25: 1:44.01
26: 1:43.80
27: 1:43.64
28: 1:43.07
1500
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16: 3:55.0
17: did not run (injured most of the year)
18: 3:45.2
19: 3:42.67
20: did not run (best mile: 3:57.67)
21: did not run (best mile: 4:02.17)
22: 3:32.03
23: 3:38.4
24: 3:31.95
25: 3:39.1
26: 3:37.17
27: 3:32.53
28: 3:32.13
I had a high school teammate run 1:54.8 800m as a sophomore on mostly soccer training in what was beginning to be a weak era for American middle distance running. Coe didn't break that until he was 18, and then dropped five seconds the next year with Gandy and almost three more seconds the year after that to 1:44. Two years later at 22, he was down another 2.6 seconds to 1:42.33. It was not until 19 that he ran the equivalent of a 4:00 mile where his time was nearly identical to marathoner Ryan Hall's best high school time at 18. He then ran 3:57 for the mile at 20, three years older than Cram to do that. Two years later at 22, he was in world record territory with a 3:32.03 (3:49-50 equivalent, so about a 7 or 8 second drop).
Coe's progression at a school where they were doing steroid studies (advertised in the newspaper--this was posted a year or two back) under a strength training coach and his toxoplasmosis are two major data points against him. Maybe he was clean. I doubt it. For Cram there are simply no red flags.