About time things change in AK.
Well done!
What happens when they call the police and Kiprop and Kemboi show up?
Siege ? more a sitting from joggers and/or individuals who are claiming to be athletes and to speak for them... pathetic
Keino68 wrote:
Siege ? more a sitting from joggers and/or individuals who are claiming to be athletes and to speak for them... pathetic
What's so pathetic about it? Please elaborate. Is it them not using violence? Them trying to change something that they feel is not okay?
And why do you know the are not athletes? I'm pretty sure each one of them will whoop your ass on anything above 200m.
Bad Wigins wrote:
What happens when they call the police and Kiprop and Kemboi show up?
Laughter ensues when neither can brandish a gun with their twig like arms.
wwaylon smithers wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:What happens when they call the police and Kiprop and Kemboi show up?
Laughter ensues when neither can brandish a gun with their twig like arms.
Oh, wow, you are so funny...
Keino68 wrote:
Siege ? more a sitting from joggers and/or individuals who are claiming to be athletes and to speak for them... pathetic
While the "protest" itself seems to carry little weight, It's a step in the right direction. However, the hyperbolic portrayal is juvenile. The same hot-button language of the recent Mali attack and infamous Kenyan mall massacre ("stormed," "siege") is being thrown around to get clicks and grasp for hype.
Bad Wigins wrote:
What happens when they call the police and Kiprop and Kemboi show up?
Kiprop and Kemboi ARE the effing police ... doncha know?
^^^ Sorry ... misread your post.
Hingle MacJaminberry wrote:
wwaylon smithers wrote:Laughter ensues when neither can brandish a gun with their twig like arms.
Oh, wow, you are so funny...
Twigs are more substantial than distance runner's arms.
Slightly OT, I find it interesting that Kenyan athletes are depicted as soulless or without personality on these boards when in reality I can't fathom any other country where their track and field athletes would even consider revolting against their governing body in this manner.
El Keniano wrote:
Slightly OT, I find it interesting that Kenyan athletes are depicted as soulless or without personality on these boards when in reality I can't fathom any other country where their track and field athletes would even consider revolting against their governing body in this manner.
ummmm........You ever hear of Nick Symmonds
El Keniano wrote:
Slightly OT, I find it interesting that Kenyan athletes are depicted as soulless or without personality on these boards when in reality I can't fathom any other country where their track and field athletes would even consider revolting against their governing body in this manner.
I think that most of the criticism regards a lack of media personality rather than an actual lack of personality.
Though, to be fair, I think at least half the criticism has to go to the western media itself for failing to actually engage with Kenyan athletes. One might also blame the agents for not impressing on Kenyan athletes the idea that athletes are in the entertainment business and that being an interesting character can be as lucrative as being fast.
Of course, some savvier athletes like Kipsang still manage to do a pretty good job in this regard.
Kiplagat: “Serious athletes are training, they have no time for demonstrationsâ€.
Right. Because athletes are training 24 hours a day. How could they possibly do anything else?
Video of kenyans protesting can be seen here
Haven't seen it posted anywhere but the siege ended pretty successfully for the athletes: Isaiah Kiplagat and David Okeyo have to step down while under investigation. Can't imagine a way back for them after this so it's curtains (hopefully jail) for them.
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/sports/2015/11/24/kiplagat-okeyo-told-to-quit-as-ak-siege-ends/