rekrunner wrote:
How do we get past what things "seem like" to you?
All these threads seem to be propped up by phrases like "could have been" and "seems like" and "I think".
Where does this idea that intelligent testing includes targeting associates of convicted dopers come from?
Do you have an external source?
As you see, East Africans were fast on the world scene before EPO.
I was replying to your comment which was
rekrunner wrote:
My "competing theory" was about performance.
The increasing number of Kenyan busts is not relevant to that, and some of the recent busts seem to support the "competing theory".
I don't doubt the number of busts, the improved testing, and high prevelance.
Not to be impolite, but you really are an autistic a$$hat aren't you?
As for your other questions, I've spent too much time on this site already this morning. I'm replying to you just after dealing with a guy who is threatening to break my jaw etc. Between you the paid obfuscator here and the violent nutjob threatening to assault and rape me, it doesn't seem to be a good way to spend my time on anti-doping.
But briefly, I can't be ar$ed getting the links right now but one of the top Kenyan xcountry stars pre-EPO was convicted of doping and another was deeply suspicious. People like Japhath Kamal and Michael Rotich have at various times been the coach of the Kenyan xcountry team.
Yes, I did read that the 'intelligence based testing' looked at associates of known dopers.