You know from reading this thread, and, most probably, from your own recollection that Shorter testified that he was doing it, then, before Montreal, backpedaled. Why, if there was no real threat of sanction would he do that? Why was Cascade Runoff in '81 such a newsworthy and radical event?
So, while running luminaries may have confided to you in a lockerroom about their breaking of the rules, they sure in the heck weren't doing it in public.
And, if you do a search here, I think the thread still exists in which I - and a few others, including Malmo - talk about drug use, especially at AW. I was a relative running nobody, but, I knew many of the running somebodies in Eugene in the late 80s and early 90s. Several of them had just the same sort of candid conversations with me about drug use as Aki-Bua did with you about money.
I'm going to try to spend the rest of the day grading, as I should, but I feel strongly that this is a conversation really worth having, a debate worth joining. It's disingenuous, just as it was with the old shamateurism, to pretend that the boundaries between purity and guilt when it comes to drug use are well-defined. Why are some drugs on the banned list but not others? Why is there such a thing as a TUE? If a record was set 10years ago by a runner using a substance not banned then but banned now, especially because testers didn't know it existed, should it still be a record? Where do vitamins end and cheating begin? What should we do about people who used oxygen tents?
If the people who really care about this sport could come to something close to consensus, or, at least, clarity about these sorts of questions (there are many many more) than we might have a better shot at saving the sport from the scourge of cheaters. George Polya says that in order to solve a problem, you must first understand it. I don't think we do. That goes for social problems like cheating even more so than for mathematical problems that Polya was talking about. Then we can define what's cutting the course and what's shaving the tangents.