David Gillick

So two really strong Americans in that era.

But the following kind of six months later, LeSean Merritt got done for drugs.

And I can remember when that news broke and I was shocked.

I was absolutely shocked.

And then they're kind of gone.

How were you shocked?

Well, see, this is the thing.

You're kind of shocked because, like, it was my event.

It was so close.

You know, you read the dope and, you know, scandals, but it was never in my event.

It was never someone that I raced against.

And that's why I was shocked.

But then you start thinking about it and then you're like, maybe I've just been stupidly naive here.

And that was a real eye-opener, like, because...

was I fourth?

You know, where did I actually finish?

You know, and all of these questions come in.

And I think in the subsequent years then when I went over to America, I was in a training group that, again, like there was about 12 in the training group.

And three of them got done for drugs in subsequent years, you know.

And one had moved out of the group and was at a different coach when that happened.