casual obsever wrote:
EssosLindi wrote:
Galen Rupp is small fish. Outside of the american bubble, nobody care about him, he is a minor runner and not high profile. Mo is the real prize that everybody want to see fall like Armstrong.
Yes, but the American bubble is quite big.
As for Mo, UKAD and the IAAF - both conveniently run by Brits like WADA - will never re-test his samples, let alone by an independent lab. Likewise they will never publish his ABP that indicated "likely doping". Will all be handled internally if the pressure gets to high. See the Paula case.
The american bubble is big, but Rupp palmares is small and his records average in the bigger picture.
The american USADA had the courage and the will to finally turn on Armstrong. I hope that for Mo Farah, witness will come and be so overwhelming that it would trump everything else. Doping is the thing, whether you believe it's widespread or not. But I suspect Mo Farah was industrial doping, like Armstrong, which turned an average-good runner into a world champion. That can't be accepted and I would like to see him fall.
But it's true that