We need to start to acknowlege that this isn't just an instance of yet ANOTHER Kenyan busted, but that the Kenyan drug problem is hurting all of our sport.
The next cycle of trying to get into the 2028 Olympics requires a 2:06:30 marathon? Why? In what reasonable world is that a time to have as your qualification? Because we live in a world where the top Kenyan and Ethiopian have deformed the times at the top so dramatically, that the qualification time is now faster than most country's (not all, but most) national records. That is the only reason to move the goal posts from 2:08 to 2:06.
Our sport is dying at the elite level in terms of interest (while the sport is thriving at the participation level, which is a whole different divide) because we have unreal times, poor media coverage most of the time, and an army of men and women who run so inhumanly fast that the whole "competition" part of the sport, some would say the best part of hte sport, has been left behind a phalanx of "pacers" and long time trials.
We know that East Africa has a PED problem, just like we know that Russia has a PED problem. And so do other nations, no question there, and there is no reason to derail the convo with "well, so does (UK, USA, Morocco, etc.) because we all know that is true as well. Here the problem is compounded by the fact that the marathon has become an event, against all odds and certainly beyond what anyone would have imagined in the '70's, the mass event and the most televised. And with the PED issues at the top of this sport, and the lack of great competition/only fast times as a focal point has truly created an entire sport problem. Currently, the two things cannot be separated.