Foreigner
Senior Retro Guru
Not sure if you have followed his trajectory at all - he was a massive prodigy since hie early years, winning races from his early teens on. With regards to the build, that is just simply wrong - for an example compared to todays sprinters built (Ganna, Milan etc), Cav would therefore not be able to win any of the sprints at all, would he with his tiny height? Nor is Roglic built like a typical climber, yet he won so many hilly races too. List could go on, but that's beside the point.I feel really stupid for saying this, but I had assumed Pog was just superhuman - a Merckx of his generation. But now I think about it, his career trajectory has been a little odd and he doesn’t have the normal climbers build which should have set alarm bells ringing. To be a great all- rounder in this era of scientific training and performance analysis is…difficult to explain. Still it may just be he won the genetic lottery like in Dr Hutch’s book.
Is Duplantis caked? Was Bolt doped? What about Phelps? Federer, Nadal or Djokovic? In every sport there is a always someone better than the rest of the field, let's just accept it's always going to be someone to start complaining about it, especially when dragging back the past into todays era. I have witnessed certain Jarmila kratochvílová and her dominance of the 400m and 800m races, yet that does not make me think Femke Bol is doping too. But you are entitled to your opinion...