We changed the title of this thread. It initially was entirled, "Jonathan J. Marcus, What is your LetsRun Username? J. Marcus accuses Yared Nuguse of Doping Based on....." We removed the first half as we didn't think it was really relevent to the discussion at hand.
On Twitter, Jonathan J. Marcus accuses (somewhat indirectly) Yared Nuguse of doping based off of Yared's hip position during the push-off/propulsion phase.
Sounded like Ritz went through hell second guessing everything Salazar said was fine and testifying on it. I don't think he would put this team through that. And there's too many of them talking on too many podcasts and social media platforms to keep it a secret.
all legal, I'm talking about things like large doses of vitamins and amino acids, injections, hormones(Alberto had many on calcitonin), TUE's, the many items that are banned in competition but not during training like triamcinolone acetonide
Things that are not optimal for long term health but do help support performance.
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How does OP not now how to use an ellipsis? And all you losers who are responding to a troll also get a thumbs down. Bro, OP hasn’t come back to defend herself. You guy got Rick roller.
Let me address some of this non-sense. I don't do biomechanics but I do facts so let me point out some of the errors of his arguments.
Marcus wrote:
6/Nuguse is performing at a Superhuman level all of sudden. Unlike a Bolt or Rudisha, his biomechanical profile doesn't support his performance level.
Healthy skepticism is valid as biomechanically unsound superhuman feats are in the company of Salazar/NOP, Lance, Team Sky, etc.
All of the sudden? What the hell are you talking about Jonathan? As a true freshman in 2018, Nuguse split 3:56.90 and ran down Grant Fisher at NCAAs. In 2019, he won the NCAA 1500 title, beating Olli Hoare in the process. To act like he suddenly came out no where is absolutely absurd.
Marcus wrote:
8/ This is only my opinion:
In addition to shoe tech, there seems to be something else enhancing his performance ability, but I can't say what.
You can't say what. Well let me tell you what it could be.
But before I do. Full disclaimer. I don't know who is clean or who isn't clean and it does bother me intellectually that everyone who was in the NOP was clean as snow and totally innocent except of course for that evil man Salazar even though almost all of these innocent as snow people have greatly benefitted from their assocation with Salazar, whether it was Rupp, Farah, Goucher, Ritz, Yoder-Begley etc.
Anyway, I'll "say what" and tell you what could explain the massive improvement for Nuguse. And this wouldn't just apply to him. IIt would pretty much apply to any 23+ runner. The one time you woul expect to see a huge gain after the age of 22 is when someone a) starts running full-time for the first time and training more and b) starts training at altitude for the first time.
When my brother did that, he went from 29:49 to 28:30 in the 10,000 and then down to 28:07. In trying to prove how smart he is, Marcus has seemingly forgotten the whole concept of altitude training which can very much act like a legal PED.
I don't find anything especially suspicious about Nuguse. 3:47-48 is within range for any top miler. Josh Kerr TT'd to a 3:48 last year. The only reason Nuguse seems so much like an outlying performance is that 1) the mile is hardly run outside of the US, and 2) it's run with even less regularity indoors. There's a reason that the WR is held by a distance runner rather than a mid-d guy. Jakob has never even run an indoor mile, and Cheruiyot has never even run an indoor race. Mo Katir has never run a mile indoors or outdoors. All three could run 3:47 if they cared to. In that context, 3:47 is not a performance that is so wild that it makes you think the guy is on PEDs.
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Let me address some of this non-sense. I don't do biomechanics but I do facts so let me point out some of the errors of his arguments.
Marcus wrote:
6/Nuguse is performing at a Superhuman level all of sudden. Unlike a Bolt or Rudisha, his biomechanical profile doesn't support his performance level.
Healthy skepticism is valid as biomechanically unsound superhuman feats are in the company of Salazar/NOP, Lance, Team Sky, etc.
All of the sudden? What the hell are you talking about Jonathan? As a true freshman in 2018, Nuguse split 3:56.90 and ran down Grant Fisher at NCAAs. In 2019, he won the NCAA 1500 title, beating Olli Hoare in the process. To act like he suddenly came out no where is absolutely absurd.
Marcus wrote:
8/ This is only my opinion:
In addition to shoe tech, there seems to be something else enhancing his performance ability, but I can't say what.
You can't say what. Well let me tell you what it could be.
But before I do. Full disclaimer. I don't know who is clean or who isn't clean and it does bother me intellectually that everyone who was in the NOP was clean as snow and totally innocent except of course for that evil man Salazar even though almost all of these innocent as snow people have greatly benefitted from their assocation with Salazar, whether it was Rupp, Farah, Goucher, Ritz, Yoder-Begley etc.
Anyway, I'll "say what" and tell you what could explain the massive improvement for Nuguse. And this wouldn't just apply to him. IIt would pretty much apply to any 23+ runner. The one time you woul expect to see a huge gain after the age of 22 is when someone a) starts running full-time for the first time and training more and b) starts training at altitude for the first time.
When my brother did that, he went from 29:49 to 28:30 in the 10,000 and then down to 28:07. In trying to prove how smart he is, Marcus has seemingly forgotten the whole concept of altitude training which can very much act like a legal PED.
Studies have shown running economy can't be guessed by simply eyeballing someone's form.
