Renato Canova wrote:
This idea should be a total inequity, since clean Kenyan and Ethiopian exist, and are able to run at the top of the world.
I understand the widespread skepticism about Kenyan runners, because many of them used doping (for their will, or for mistake, the final result is the same).
However, I well know the level of sacrifice many about the best Kenyans reach, Always far from their families, running 2-3 times per day, sometimes at levels of pain and sufference higher than in the competition, and they do this in clean way.
We can't penalize strong athletes, CLEAN, because some other strong athlete, doped, can win some competition. And, also, we can penalize strong athletes, CLEAN, because European, American, Australian, Canadian, New Zelander, Japanese runner (slower than them) lose the motivation looking at so many athletes running 2:05.
We showed possible, for European too, running in 2:05:47 using advanced training in altitude, and running that time Sondre Moen beated Olympic Champions like Stephen Kiprotich and Kenyan stars like Karoki, so WE CAN.
There is a very simple system for controlling the situation : the organizers need to pay the prizes only after 1 year, and only 50% of the final prize, opening a bank account where can put the other 50% of the prize, to give to the athlete only after 3 years, when already there is the control about the Biological Passport.
In alternance, they can give the total amount after 6 months to the management, that in this case has to be responsible for the athlete, and, if in the future the athlete is doped, the management has to reimburse all the money to the organizers, that need to update all the other clean athletes, finishing behind the doped runner.
Your solution is, if there is one rotten apple in one big basket of apples, to throw out all the apples, when 95% are still good. And I don't think this can be a good solution, because we Always have to protect the rights of clean persons.