wejo wrote:
As for Alberto's athletes besides Galen I have never seen confirmation that Mo Farah is on thyroid medication.
Wejo, this might be obvious, but has Letsrun pushed hard to try to find out in more detail who on the Oregon Project does what?
I think most of us feel that Rupp, Farah, and Salazar's other runners are clean. They may not be, of course, but let's go with that assumption for now. Of course, what "clean" means is open for interpretation. They are open about the fact that they use lots of training aids to get that last little bit of performance. Some of that, almost undoubtedly, is in the gray area, legal but either frowned upon or unknown to testers and therefore legal.
I think this sort of gray level performance-enhancement would not be immoral because everything is legal, and if you can't even do LEGAL things, how are you supposed to compete then? That said, it is still something that people should know about, and like others have said, could at least hypothetically be a cover up for a heavier doping program.
Again, I do not think that Salazar's group is doing anything outside the rules, but they are being awfully secretive. Has Letsrun considered pressing the question of what Salazar's athletes are taking for performance enhancement to the same extent that it has done so for Regina Jacobs and Carmelita Jeter? I think that high level coaches should be obligated to answer questions about this stuff in the same way that they answer questions about doping.
I think Letsrun could make a major difference here if its reporters pressured Salazar's group for transparency.