It's not just drugs; it's drugs plus much better training. Blood doping has a major effect, so it's not clear that EPO is so much better.
It's not just drugs; it's drugs plus much better training. Blood doping has a major effect, so it's not clear that EPO is so much better.
i got banned wrote:
Ruman wrote:
I believe Kenya is more known for its gifted distance runners than for doping.
No point in mentioning Viren’s 13:26 at Montreal; Farah ran 13:50 at the 2015 world championships but that’s not as fast as he was capable of, obviously.
There have been a number of top guys in the last few years who could’ve threatened 26:30 on a good day—Farah, Tanui, Kamworor, Cheptegei, Kejelcha, Kipruto—whether they’re doping or not.
hahaha that has been tarnished pretty hard, even hardcore el K had to finally through in the towel and call it quits on defending his doped up country
- the poster formally known as m!ndweak
Yeah, every time another Kenyan gets popped for doping I shed a figurative tear because I know the racist crazies on this site will use it to claim that all fast east African runners are and always have been doping, and that’s the only reason any of them have run faster than Lasse Viren (lol). Yet the top runners from Europe, Asia and North America are so often native of East Africa, and EA-born runners have such a stranglehold on the mid/long distance top-lists, that to claim their success is based only on doping is to claim that they’re unethical cheaters by nature compared to virtuous white athletes. It’s sad, man.
Ruman wrote:
Yeah, every time another Kenyan gets popped for doping I shed a figurative tear because I know the racist crazies on this site will use it to claim that all fast east African runners are and always have been doping, and that’s the only reason any of them have run faster than Lasse Viren (lol). Yet the top runners from Europe, Asia and North America are so often native of East Africa, and EA-born runners have such a stranglehold on the mid/long distance top-lists, that to claim their success is based only on doping is to claim that they’re unethical cheaters by nature compared to virtuous white athletes. It’s sad, man.
Yeah, Mo Farah is 100% British by culture and its his Somali genes that force him to train in remote areas of Ethiopia and hook up with dubious characters such as Aden.
Said nobody here ever.
Which 'top European runners' are you referring to here? Mo? The North African immigrants who dominate Belgian, French running and keep getting caught with the peas and carrots their mates supplied them with back home? LOL!
Most of the really fast or successful East African runners 'dominating' their adopted countries spend months training back in Africa where there is little testing, and the ones that don't - for example Rinaldi's 800m guys - aren't particularly fast, and are only dominating because they are the results of a self-fulfilling prophesy based on the doped up myth of East African superiority (Rinaldi has said he scouts refugee camps for 'the next Rudisha', rather than looking at his local school for the 'next Snell').
#FreeCoevett
You getting soft in your old age?
Teddy Roosevelt was a great runner. Or at least his horses were.