Okay let's make clear one thing - just because a bunch of us *think* Dibaba is doping, doesn't mean she should be banned. Flipside of that, just because she has never failed a test or admitted to doping, doesn't mean it's absolutely screaming obvious she's doping.
Why do I say that?
1) coach caught with EPO And his defence was literally "I wasn't using it, athletes I was living with were using it."
2) multiple athletes from said coach caught and banned.
3a) from a country famous for not having a functioning anti doping program.,
3b) where a pharmacy across the road from the national stadium admitted to journalists that they sell EPO over the counter to athletes.
3c) where anti doping wasn't operated on one of the days of the National champs "because it was a Sunday."
4) the only people even in the same league as her time wise a have massive asterisks next to their name. Let's look at the top 12 1500 runners of all time.
You have six Chinese athletes who all ran 3:50-3:53 IN THE SAME TWO RACES. Literally, Yunxia Qu ran 3:57 in one of these races and came 8th! Yet the fastest any of these 6 ever ran outside of literally the Beijing Champs is a 3:57. None of the other 5 ever broke 4 outside of China. Their coach has been accused of running a doping program (1990s China largest producer of global anabolic steroids lol) and several later caught for doping. Then in 11th and 12th you get another two women from the same two races, same national team coach, same story of never producing the goods outside of China.
Then you have Tatyana Kazankina (6th all time) from the USSR who had never broken 4:10 let alone 4, then conveniently the year of the Moscow Olympics runs 3:52 before *never breaking 4 again and running a 4:36 mile the next time she raced.*
After that you get Paula Ivan (8th all time) rom Romania who again, never breaks 4 until whoops, Olympic year, drops a freaking 3:53 inSeoul and oh look, never breaks 4 minutes again (she literally ran a 4:26 in 2000 lol.
The most respectable woman from the top 12 other than Dibaba is Olga Dvirna, but that's a stretch given she's 1980s USSR which which is accused of running a state doping program plus she's the classic case of never breaking 4, then running 3:54 and being hot for 2 years then never breaking 4 again.
Then we get to 13th - Laura Muir in Paris 2016. I've seen some crazy stuff like "ooo she is a get, bet she can use drugs she gets that are meant to go to animals" but thus far neither her not her coach have any accusations against her.
ANYWAY, are you telling me you can look at a woman who BEAT ALL OF THE ABOVE, SUPER SKRTCHY AND SUSPICIOUS athletes with tons of question marks, AND that she also has question marks next to her.... And you look at that and think "nah mate, people are just jealous/racist/always looking for dopers. "
Should she be banned without full evidence? Hell no. Would I leap for joy if she did fail a test? Absolutely. Do I think Ethiopia need to undergo a total overhaul of their anti doping program a la Russia or be banned from competition? I think it already would have happened if there weren't concerns of a) racism allegations and b) scared of the damage it would do to distance running.
End RANT.