sundown wrote:
You're the guy always trumpeting these athletes whose superiority may well be based largely on drugs. Why didn't Kenyans and Ethiopians dominate the world until the Italian coaches arrived, along with EPO, in the 1990s? They were very good and very competitive but could be beaten and often were. Now everyone can run 2:05 or better on the men's side and 1:04-6 halfs on the women's side, while running 30-31 enroute.
Some of them are obviously n drugs as are athletes from all countries including the USA and the cheating will get worse as countries become more secular because people who believe this is the only life we get wont worry about having to explain to God their wrongdoings, I blast cheaters, but not excessively as I have done and thought so much wrong, they are probably angels by comparison.
Anyway if it is all drugs why wouldn't these Italian Coaches use them on Italian runners who were at one time great with Cova, Antibo, Panetta, Baldini etc. If they made stars out of their own countrymen and other Europeans who would be far more marketable than Africans, and if the coaches are getting a percentage of their runners earnings, it would make sense to cheat using European Runners who would make them a LOT more money.
Also Italian and European runners are not only not as good as the Africans, they are not as good as their countrymen and continentmen who are now in their 60's and 70's Example Chris Thompson with his 27:27 for 10000 is about 20th on the European list (Not Counting Africans running for Europe) and Danielle Mucci with his 27:32 (Born 1985) is 35th, these are the only 2 Europeans born after 1980 who have run under 27:45 the qualifying time to get into Worlds.
It would not even look suspicious if they ran faster than their countrymen who were in their prime 30-40 or more years ago.