osm wrote:
This thread is a trainwreck, but nothing about what Cheruiyot did here is at all suspicious. He may very well be doping because unfortunately anyone who runs 3:29 is suspicious, Kenyan or otherwise (sad but true), but literally nobody outside of Norway cares about the Bislett Games Dream Mile. It's not one of the biggest meets of the year like Coevett keeps saying, it's an ordinary Diamond League meet with a pretty average field compared to others. Very few athletes run every 1500/mile on the circuit, and Cheruiyot had a very busy first half of the season, now he's going home to get a good training block in before going back to Europe in July and August. And he's working on his farm because that's what Kenyan athletes do. Really nothing more to see here.
Your line of reasoning is the train wreck, as well as that of the other doping apologists here.
What he did is suspicious because the Kenyan world number 1 he only recently took over from just got popped for EPO, in the most damning circumstances possible (he failed the test but everybody accepts that he was warned of it beforehand by corrupt or clueless Kenyan testers). His coach happens to be the manager to the cross country team. The manager for the Kenyan team for Rio just got charged for running a sophisticated doping regime from an El Doret hospital. If you don't think Kenyan isn't going to be totally exposed over the next year or tow, and that Tim's simple souled decision to skip the dream mile to 'plant potatoes' isn't, then you have your head in the sand, just as El K does.
And you're a fool if you think 'nobody outside of Norway cares about the dream mile'. Middle distance fans do and somebody who cares about his position in the sport and its history should, especially after his countryman just got popped, further killing the sport.
The Bislett Games is one of the best attended diamond league meets. Norway is per capita the wealthiest nation on Earth outside of the middle-east. I'm pretty sure they're paying decent money. There is a 30 day gap between Stockholm (3 days after Oslo) and the next Diamond League event. He surely must be off the PEDs if a 30 day break wouldn't be enough for him. Kenyans are clearly doping like lunatics for the financial incentives, yet Tim is such a simple soul he not only is clean, he chooses to forego appearance and prize money to plant potatoes.
With just over 500 twitter followers, literally nobody outside this forum has heard of Tim, and this is his second season as number one in the world.
