Well that didn't take long: Asbel Kiprop gives up fight to prove innocence - Says he doesn't have resources to fight IAAF

He is no bonifide Kiprop that's for sure. It should be known about his dirtiness. Didn't get kicked out of his camp years ago for his naughty shenanagans by sneaking a promiscuous sheila into his camp. That was a dirty red flag.

casual obsever wrote:

Yeah I remember. But as an optimist, I continue to hope that reckie and ghost1 are just trolling around, and really hate all these drug cheats too.

Or perhaps they're the same person?

Dude was my favorite runner but he's pissing me off. Asbel, how much money do you need? State a figure.

Maybe we should try to raise it on GoFundMe so we can expose him for being a fraud (or perhaps to vindicate him).

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

I had to laugh at that one, no miler has won as much money as Kiprop has over the last decade. More like no expert wants to be associated with him.

Does anyone know how much money Kiprop has earned over his career? Is he one of the the highest paid Kenyans? How does he compare to say someone like Rudisha?

Now what do some of the better earning Kenyans do with their money? Do they put a lot of it back into their villages to improve the living conditions there? (not a bad thing and perhaps that's why he doesn't have enough money saved up for legal fees?).

Kiprop has money, but he thinks that fighting the IAAF lawyers, or others -who have bigger pockets is doomed to failure, so he prefers to keep the money he has to invest in his future business, or life. Lance A. also was forced to give in.

This is really tragic news, especially for all the youth in Kenya who idolized him.

Please note, a large group of Kenyan elites still support him.

Would be interesting to get Canova's view on the whole matter.

This case is not good for track and Kenyan athletics.

Interesting that in cycling, former dopers, or suspected dopers, like Contador and Virenque, can resume their careers, and still retain their popularity.

Don't even mention sports like baseball, football american, basketball -athletes there take stuff, and few bat an eyelid.

He realized a good lawyer won’t accept goats, cows and a piece of bad real estate as payment.

The one thing I haven't seen mentioned, at least not on the first page of this thread is this: Kiprop is about the freakiest looking dude I've ever seen run. Can you name someone with a better body for running? Talk about lungs on legs. Nothing about him looks remotely normal. If I had his body I'd expect to run sub 4:00 while 20 pounds over weight. Think of Brody Hastey who is running about 4:00 for the mile. You guys don't think Kiprop can run 15 seconds faster? Maybe, maybe not.

Was he on drugs? I'd guess yes, but at the same time it really IS expensive to fight an organization like the IAAF and WADA when you look at the history and it's practically a kangaroo court so you're better off keeping your money and finding out who your close friends are.

If he's innocent I can't blame him for giving up if it would mean he could lose all of his money on legal fees. That's no way to have the doping system setup, where you can't even afford to defend yourself. I'm not impressed with the situation at all.

Re. Asbel -If he did dope, then it is tragic. Especially as he has/had so much talent from a young age.

If caucasian runners, like Willis et al. can run 3.30ish clean, then it is not surprising that Kenyans with their particular body structure, altitude, and fierce motivation, can run a few seconds faster. Mo Farah, ,3.28, always clean in tests, so close to Asbel's time, and Mo comes from 5/10 background.

Canova, in previous studies, suggests that EPO provides no tangible advantage to Kenyans like Kiprop.

This tragic case, for Asbel, spells the end of an era. Everyone in Eldoret and Iten is sad, but Asbel maintains his innocence.

Inquiring minds want to know wrote:

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

I had to laugh at that one, no miler has won as much money as Kiprop has over the last decade. More like no expert wants to be associated with him.

Does anyone know how much money Kiprop has earned over his career? Is he one of the the highest paid Kenyans? How does he compare to say someone like Rudisha?

Now what do some of the better earning Kenyans do with their money? Do they put a lot of it back into their villages to improve the living conditions there? (not a bad thing and perhaps that's why he doesn't have enough money saved up for legal fees?).

It really depends on whether its Kiprop’s income pre or post the Rosas cut and then there is all those middlemen (like drug testers, drug sample collectors, drug dealers) that he has to pay off. So perhaps he is telling the truth for once (nah not likely ?).

Barrel of Laughs wrote:

The article says he doesn't have any dough to fight the charges. Yeah...right, one of wealthiest Kenyan runners in recent memory and no money? ?

He's giving up the fight because he knows he's a doper!...a fraud!...a phoney!

This is probably a ~3:30 guy at best where doping put him in the superhuman 3:26 category.

Now, if he would only tells us about the program he was on, rat out the Kenyan doping coaches/doctors/agents and apologize to all the Kenyan youngsters that idolize him!

This. Anyone who believes the fraud asbel Kiprop is a gullible moron!!

Ghost1 wrote:

Re. Asbel -If he did dope, then it is tragic. Especially as he has/had so much talent from a young age.

If caucasian runners, like Willis et al. can run 3.30ish clean, then it is not surprising that Kenyans with their particular body structure, altitude, and fierce motivation, can run a few seconds faster. Mo Farah, ,3.28, always clean in tests, so close to Asbel's time, and Mo comes from 5/10 background.

Canova, in previous studies, suggests that EPO provides no tangible advantage to Kenyans like Kiprop.

This tragic case, for Asbel, spells the end of an era. Everyone in Eldoret and Iten is sad, but Asbel maintains his innocence.

This post pretty much proves Ghost is indeed Rekrunner letting his fetish hang out on full display.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

Inquiring minds want to know wrote:

Does anyone know how much money Kiprop has earned over his career? Is he one of the the highest paid Kenyans? How does he compare to say someone like Rudisha?

Now what do some of the better earning Kenyans do with their money? Do they put a lot of it back into their villages to improve the living conditions there? (not a bad thing and perhaps that's why he doesn't have enough money saved up for legal fees?).

It really depends on whether its Kiprop’s income pre or post the Rosas cut and then there is all those middlemen (like drug testers, drug sample collectors, drug dealers) that he has to pay off. So perhaps he is telling the truth for once (nah not likely ?).

Too funny!...Man you've always got some good ones! I skipped over the posted by and one sentence into reading the post, I said to myself this is got to be "Subway."?

Now, if only our esteemed statistician rekrunner had a sense of humor like that it would put a whole new meaning to these doping discussions. ?

Donyiyo wrote:

He realized a good lawyer won’t accept goats, cows and a piece of bad real estate as payment.

He realised the best lawyer in the world couldn't get him off.

Just need to read the interview he gave to the BBC to know that, full of holes bigger enough to drive a bus through.

Barrel of Laughs wrote:

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

It really depends on whether its Kiprop’s income pre or post the Rosas cut and then there is all those middlemen (like drug testers, drug sample collectors, drug dealers) that he has to pay off. So perhaps he is telling the truth for once (nah not likely ?).

Too funny!...Man you've always got some good ones! I skipped over the posted by and one sentence into reading the post, I said to myself this is got to be "Subway."?

Now, if only our esteemed statistician rekrunner had a sense of humor like that it would put a whole new meaning to these doping discussions. ?

Ssssh! He'll be here soon with, "you guys are just so immature."

Anyhow, more seriously he won the Diamond league is 2010, 2015, 2016 which is $40,000-50,000. He won the WCs in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 which is $65,000. Looking at a very good season for Kiprop (when the sauce was just right) he had 5 wins (which is usually $10,000) but one of these was the DL final in Brussels (which I'm not sure of the prize for this), he had one 4th ($3000), a 5th ($2,500) and a 10th (no sauce $1,000 800m final). Track Stats has his winnings at $76,500 for the year in just DL prize money (so $30,000 for the final). Plus $40,000 for the overall DL, with another $65,000 for the world championships gold or $181,500 for the year. Then there was his DL 1500m record of 3:26.6 which surely was an undisclosed bonus of $10,000- $20,000 maybe even $50,000. Then there is his appearance fees for 8 races??? Nike bonuses??? (Fastest in the world, world champion, no. 1 ranked, won five times plus a retainer/base salary). If F. Rosa was half competent as a manager Kiprop should have earned over $300,000 in 2015 (before he took his massive cut, of course). In a country where $5,000 enables you to live comfortably.

rojo wrote:

Dude was my favorite runner but he's pissing me off. Asbel, how much money do you need? State a figure.

Maybe we should try to raise it on GoFundMe so we can expose him for being a fraud (or perhaps to vindicate him).

Unfortunately, money can't build a case where there is none.

The anti-doping mechanisms are extremely sound and Kiprop would have to prove that the whole system across the world is broken to get out of this one. It's not possible.

The sample is collected and split into two tamper proof containers by the athlete which are coded to the athlete and sealed by the athlete.

They are then shipped to a lab outside of the country and tested.

They check the sample is from the athlete through DNA markers, the EPO they are looking for is strings of partly metabolised proteins, not what you could squeeze from an EPO syringe into the sample after urinating.

I said it in the other thread, A positive + B positive = Done. He would have to have a decent excuse to explore like some of the excuses given before for injesting trace amounts of steroids from beef, tainted legal supplements like protein powder etcetera. Something which they could check by going to a supplier and seeing that the athlete was correct.

Kiprop cannot come up with any excuse other than 'I may have been extorted for money, but I'm not sure. Maybe I didn't give enough tea money, I don't know.'

It's laughable, the guy never did seem that smart from his race tactics, I'm surprised it took this long to catch him out.

ex-runner wrote:

I said it in the other thread, A positive + B positive = Done. He would have to have a decent excuse to explore like some of the excuses given before for injesting trace amounts of steroids from beef, tainted legal supplements like protein powder etcetera. Something which they could check by going to a supplier and seeing that the athlete was correct.

^This. Well, he can still try the running through EPO infested puddles or the I just took my mom's vitamins by mistake excuse.

ex-runner wrote:

It's laughable, the guy never did seem that smart from his race tactics, I'm surprised it took this long to catch him out.

Well, there is that. But he had the Rosa apparatus behind him, which must have helped a lot.

Also, we know that you could always bribe the IAAF until 2015ish, and AKAD really just started ramping up their OOC testing (and still gives a heads-up...). Remember they had to change a lot to be let into Rio 2016. Kiprop was flagged as "likely doping" in 2016, and caught with EPO in 2017 - so basically he was caught right away, i.e. as soon as possible.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

casual obsever wrote:

Yeah I remember. But as an optimist, I continue to hope that reckie and ghost1 are just trolling around, and really hate all these drug cheats too.

Or perhaps they're the same person?

Maybe. I've long thought that flagpole is the same person too, considering how boldly he comes up with the most ludicrous statements, and then declares himself to be THE expert on the topic - while consistently being proven wrong.

I support Kiprop 100%

The so called”white man” is a liar since the beginning. They know about Asbels faith and are looking to do anything to destroy him. Thats what you devils are trying to do. Seek and destroy. I will pray for Kiprop. ??

At least he has his police job to fall back on.