casual obsever wrote:
We have a learned a lot in the last ten years about doping in athletics:
1) For years, the IAAF accepted bribes in exchange for covering up positives.
2) In total, about 44% of the elite are dopers.
3) Among the endurance athletes, 15 - 20% use blood doping.
4) NOP's coach was a cheat, and is now banned.
5) Aden's group used EPO on a large scale, yet nobody tested positive.
6) Russians used hard core state doping, only discovered via whistle-blowing.
a) Some of their hard core EPO users like Poistogova never got flagged by the ABP.
7) Kenyans are testing positive en masse, since regular blood testing started there, including:
a) World and Olympic champ Kiprop, this decade's fastest 1500 m runner;
b) Kiptum, previous half marathon world record holder
c) Olympic champ Sumgong
d) Majors winners Jeptoo and Daniel Wanjiru
e) about a dozen of Rosa athletes
f) etc. etc. , including the provisionally banned Kipsang
We learned a little bit more than that.
1) It is misleading to say "the IAAF". The IAAF also pushed hard to sanction the very same positives.
2) It is misleading to say we learned that about 44% of elite are dopers, from a survey that did not measure non-compliance to the instructions.
7f) Kipsang was provisionally suspended for whereabouts failures, and tampering (related to whereabouts)