You know your sport is in a mess when the world's number one has 540 followers on Twitter and misses two of the biggest events in the calender (in a non championship year) to 'plant potatoes' (and is then lauded on an American running forum and anyone who suggests that it is suspicious condemened as far right extremists).
Hopefully Tim, Rudisha, Kiprop, Kipchoge, and the rest of the gang got some good tips when they were invited to an elite seminar by Athletic Kenya to discuss how to eradicate the anti-doping menace with a team of Kenyan doctors (well obvioiusly Kiprop wasn't paying attention) :
http://www.athleticskenya.or.ke/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SEMINAR-FOR-ELITE-ATHLETE.pdf