At this level of AG competition having a 6 min lead means he was riding/running circles around some of the best AG talent out there.
Which brings back up the question why he would not race Pro.
Racing Pro would be a token of good faith.
As that would give his performance (marginally) more credibility, even with the poor testing of Pros. But at least there is some out of competition testing, AFAIK(?).
Fred D wrote:
I am all for busting on this guy as he is a proven doper.
However, the bigger issue in my mind is that the AG race is largely untested both in competition and OOC... so the assumption that this is the only AGer with a doping history, or that even the assumption that only a very few AGers are doping seems silly to me. We just don't know, as they are not tested like the pro's.
AG racing is sort of the wild west. No testing (by and large) means it's hard to assume the positive or the negative.