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As people have pointed out, at the moment it is Radcliffe saying - "My data would prove my innocence, its not even slightly suspicious" "Will you release the data?" "No, I don't have too, I'm innocent"

SB, you know that I'm usually in agreement with you here as the Kenyan anti-doping effort is, at best, a very leaky sieve (much like Jamaica but that's a whole other conversation), but it's not all doping. There are well documented cases of extraordinary early talent pools of kids running in...

It's a combination of these as discussed by David epstein in the sports gene. The kalenjin tribe account for a huge proportion of the fastest times run over marathon and 10k. They have hundreds of people hitting Olympic qualifying each time.

There isn't much point blood doping out of competition - usually this is the time to remove said blood for reinfusion prior to racing.

Biopassport data is basically a combination of haemoglobin, haematocrit and reticulocyte count. The last 2 are used to construct an "off-score" - as you may be aware, if you artificially boost your red cells with transfusions, you will decrease your own production and thus reduce your...