Having your partner as a coach is definitely a red flag. Minimises the number of people in the 'circle of trust' who need to know about the doping, and makes the whole family unit totally dependent on the success of the athlete.
So this is the case for Sumgong, and also the case for Jepkosgei - love this interview in Sports Illustrated, which could hardly be more cynical
. No OOC testing, training for Prague basically off the grid (after the disappointing finish in the Kenyan cross country champs), reports of how unbelievable fast she is running training sessions from her coach, and then this. What a joke.
Now Rekrunner, could you think of another female athlete that had a partner as a coach, disappeared off the grid for a long time between races to 'focus on her training' for big marathons, delivered a bunch of pretty unbelievable performances, and - just for good measure - had several 'suspicious' blood values from this period? #worldrecordsonteaandscones