rekrunner wrote:
One thing it says is that there are much fewer Irish track athletes than Kenyan athletes, performing at a level that is tested for doping.
For example, looking at all male athletes in the alltime list for the men's 1500m, 5000m and the marathon:
- I can list 26 "elite" Irish athletes by name in one paragraph
- If I did the same for the more than 910 Kenyan elites (not counting exports), I could also put it in one paragraph, but the paragraph would be much longer
If I take these 6 named athletes from Ireland, and scaled it by 910/26, that would be 210 Kenyans.
How many of those 26 elite Irish runners have tested positive?
There are 50 Kenyans currently serving suspensions or bans. I think it's something like over 150 failed doping tests now in the last couple of decades.
The number of busts going up it seems exponentionally just as anti-doping measures rise to minimal standards in Kenya, the well documented availability of EPO in Kenya, and the outrageous and endemic corruption in Kenyan athletics from the tea money testers to the manager of the Rio team banned for 10 years, all suggest the reason why there is such a large Kenyan 'elite', is because doping with a drug that improves 3000m performance by 5% (or 7 seconds and more) is habitual and universal in Kenya.
You're nothing more than a pseudo intellectual version of El K.
4 out of 7 of Kenyan semi-finalists/finalists in the men's 400/800/1500 and 5000 in London 2017 now busted.
3 out of 9 Kenyans to break 1:45 in 2017 busted, and two of the others the training partners of two of the busted athletes.
Stop pretending it's a small percentage of a massive elite. It's a big percentage of an elite that's only massive because they're likely nearly all doped to the gills.
BTW., why is Sonia O'Sullivan's 'mysterious dominance in the EPO era' mysterious when according to you EPO doesn't work?
But Paula's WR in the EPO era isn't mysterious?