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> probably a metric tonne of PEDs (performance enhancing drugs)

Note that Sawe funded extra testing drug testing for himself for the 2 months before winning the Berlin marathon. The testing followed Athletics Integrity Unit protocols (so surprise testing etc):

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2026/04/how-sabastian-sawe-conv...

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This is news to me and genuinely impressive. Putting extra work into ensuring your attempt at one of the few records that will last the duration of humanity is damn smart.

Drug testing has its loopholes: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/07/19/486595080/r...

Yes it does.

Pretty hard to use the in-competition avoidance strategy like that in this out of competition case though.

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