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Why assume 'King Ches' is clean? Why assume he didn't lie about his age to get into the American education system?
The 'Swedish' Ethiopian who just won the European Xcountry title was busted last week (according to Swedish media). Am I still 'stoopid' for thinking that his success was due to peds rather than racial genetics?
North Africans dominated French, Belgian, Spanish running, especially in the EPO era, and we know why. And it's not genetics.
When an East or North African gets hold of a Western passport, do they suddenly become magically cleansed of the doping culture they left behind in their home countries?
Not to mention that the likes of King Ches benefit from the myth of East African genetic supremacy, both in terms of their self-esteem and labelling by others as talented (coaches etc), but the detrimental effect it has on white American/European young runners.
How is it possible that THREE completely different genetic groups - Moroccans, Ethiopians, and Kenyans - dominate distance running, just when EPO appears? Is it really unrelated to all three countries having massive problems with EPO doping?
Why don't people here claim that Russians and Slavs have a genetic advantage over white runners, especially their women? I live in Eastern Europe, and I could readily believe that the females do. Nearly all slim and long legged and athletic looking. If you took 100 random twenty year old American or British women, maybe 5 would look like athletes. If you took 100 random twenty year old Czech or Russian women, it would more like 60% of them with slim, athletic builds built for running.
But we know East European success is largely due to peds, and hardly anyone disputes it here.
Given the sheer number of elite sporstmen and women in Kenya who devote themselves to distance running as compared to any other country outside Africa, they would dominate even more than they do, even before you put their rampant doping into the equation.