I can sort of understand someone having that opinion, but if you know running there's powerful evidence that it didn't happen (more than comes through in the li

I can sort of understand someone having that opinion, but if you know running there's powerful evidence that it didn't happen (more than comes through in the linked article) and all of the alternative explanations sound very fishy. And I don't see how it's a lynch mob mentality at all if everyone is open to the guy going out and demonstrating conclusively that he has that level of fitness, which is quite easy for him to do if he wants to (if he really does have that level of fitness). It's a tired scenario that's been seen many times before. The accused cheater here, if he were a reasonable person, would say, "Yeah, I understand how it looks, it certainly doesn't seem like I could have actually run that race without cheating. So, here, let me go out and show you that I really am that fast." Why doesn't this happen?