Male Track and Field Stars Doping Polls: “Clean” or “Dirty”?
By LetsRun.com
Today we’re opening up voting on the LetsRun.com Doping Polls for the male track and field stars.
If you’re not familiar with the LetsRun.com Doping Polls, back in 2014, we wanted to get an idea of how you — the LetsRun.com readers, the most passionate running fans in the world — felt about doping in our sport. We conducted polls about a series of athletes, from world record holders to current stars, and asked one question: do you believe that athlete was “clean” or “dirty”?
We’ve brought back the polls in 2023 and have already polled you about the current world record holders. The 2023 world record results are here.
Below we ask you whether you think some of the top male track and field athletes are dirty or clean. A few of these athletes were in our 2014 polls. We’ve also included some prominent distance coaches as well.
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We also hope that this exercise can help you, our readers, think more carefully about your opinions on the sport. That is one of the reasons we are forcing people to pick “clean” or “dirty” with no room for ambiguity. We thought about chancing the language for some of the coaches but didn’t.
You can vote on this page or on our homepage. Results will be revealed later.
Athletes in 2014 Polls
Matthew Centrowitz
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Mo Farah
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Galen Rupp
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New Athletes Ordered by Event
Marcell Jacobs
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Christian Coleman
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Fred Kerley
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Noah Lyles
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Michael Norman
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Erriyon Knighton
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Grant Holloway
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Karsten Warholm
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Donvan Brazier
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Emmanuel Korir
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen
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Jake Wightman
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Timothy Cheruiyot
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Yared Nuguse
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Soufiane El Bakkali
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Evan Jager
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Lamecha Girma
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Grant Fisher
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Selemon Barega
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Ryan Crouser
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Mondo Duplantis
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Coaches
Instead of just a “clean” or “dirty” we give a little guidance on what “dirty” means here.
Alberto Salazar (coach)
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Jerry Schumacher (coach)
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Dathan Ritzenhein (coach)
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We hope this leads to a cleaner sport or at the very least makes our viewers question their own biases. For more on why we did this click here. If you still have thoughts you’d like to share with us about this project, feel free to reach out to us at letsrun@letsrun.com.
