Crazy fact: last year the top Kenyan time was slower than the top American time

Just hope Chelimo is not the poster 'Blacko' - who claims to be an elite Kenyan American runner who gets tested regularly and refers to legends like Ovett as 'slow white runners'.

Every Kenyan American elite runner who is not the poster named Blacko should sue him for damaging the integrity of Kenyan American runners.

When was the last time this happened?

Don't be sad wrote:

Just let this sink in. USA, USA, USA!!!!

That was the 5000m (also the 3000m)

Now check the 800m, 1000m, 1500m, 1 Mile, 10000m, Half Marathon and Marathon.

Benenisa Kekele wrote:

Don't be sad wrote:

Just let this sink in. USA, USA, USA!!!!

That was the 5000m (also the 3000m)

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When was the last time this happened? The 1980s?

Post Mau Mau Revolution, Kenyans have proven to be solid runners 400m through Marathon. Big Six Marathons plus other Marathons can be rewarding. If one is supposed to run 100 miles on the road plus three workouts a week as a 5000m runner, might as well run 130 miles a week and do one workout a week and become a full-time Marathon runner. If Kenyans had a meeting and decided to do well at 5000m, I am sure Kenyans could do well at 5000m.

Paul Chelimo!

Paul Chelimo!

Yeah, and if we can get Yator, Mburu, and Rutto to transfer allegiance too, then we’ll be really good! Yay Kenmerica!

When was the last time this happened wrote:

When was the last time this happened?

Umm...last year.

Paul Chelimo

Coevett wrote:

Just hope Chelimo is not the poster 'Blacko' - who claims to be an elite Kenyan American runner who gets tested regularly and refers to legends like Ovett as 'slow white runners'.

Every Kenyan American elite runner who is not the poster named Blacko should sue him for damaging the integrity of Kenyan American runners.

Some random messageboard poster does not damage the integrity of a running population. I don't think less of MMA to runner converts just because you are an idiot, either.

Paul Chelimo

Click bate wrote:

Benenisa Kekele wrote:

That was the 5000m (also the 3000m)

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When was the last time this happened? The 1980s?

No. 2011. Lagat had 2nd fastest 5k time in the world behind Farah.

formerbosox9yo wrote:

Click bate wrote:

When was the last time this happened? The 1980s?

No. 2011. Lagat had 2nd fastest 5k time in the world behind Farah.

In the 10k, Rupp was the world leader in 2014. So this isn't as uncommon in recent history as one would think.

Coevett wrote:

Just hope Chelimo is not the poster 'Blacko' - who claims to be an elite Kenyan American runner who gets tested regularly and refers to legends like Ovett as 'slow white runners'.

Every Kenyan American elite runner who is not the poster named Blacko should sue him for damaging the integrity of Kenyan American runners.

So last week I was Bernard Lagat and now I am Paul Chelimo. Awesome! What's my medal count by now?

And I called Ovett slow? What a lying dickhead you are.

Sue me for what? You have been denigrating Kenyans on here for well over one year.

Paul Chelimo?

Paul Chelimo!

Blacko wrote:

Coevett wrote:

Just hope Chelimo is not the poster 'Blacko' - who claims to be an elite Kenyan American runner who gets tested regularly and refers to legends like Ovett as 'slow white runners'.

Every Kenyan American elite runner who is not the poster named Blacko should sue him for damaging the integrity of Kenyan American runners.

So last week I was Bernard Lagat and now I am Paul Chelimo. Awesome! What's my medal count by now?

And I called Ovett slow? What a lying dickhead you are.

Sue me for what? You have been denigrating Kenyans on here for well over one year.

Well why don't you tell us who you are? You've claimed to be a Kenyan/American runner who gets tested regularly.

I've been trolled for over a year by handles that include 'jlkjlk'. That person also calls me a 'dickhead' a lot. There was a post under that handle once casually claiming that the poster was an elite Kenyan American 'from the same generation as Meb and....'(can't recall the name, but it wasn't Lagat)'. That person (or a person suspiciously using the same unregistered handle) was using racist language and denigrating white athletes, including Cram and Ovett recently, as a way of attacking me.

I don't know whether you really are a top Kenyan American runner, but there aren't that many are there? Why don't you tell us who you are rather than leave us guessing?

As for getting sued for denigrating Kenyan runners, perhaps I've been unfair at times and used offensive language and such, but there's a huge problem in Kenya and anyone who cares about the reputation of Kenyan athletics or the future of athletics itself, would recognize that instead of viciously trolling somebody who points it out.

This forum is an utter hotbed of throwing doping accusations about. Actually I'm one of 2 or 3 here who provides links and arguments. Accusing Seb Coe of doping because the GDR was doping or because he cheated on his partner is slander. Accusing Steve Cram of doping because British people have bad teeth and you hate them is slander. Pointing out that Rotich and Bett were training partners is not slander. Claiming that Tim's skipping Bislett is worthy of discussion in the light of the guy he replaced as Kenyan number 1 just being popped for EPO is not slander. In the UK and most European and anglo-saxon countries, defamation law carries a defence where the person accused of defamation can claim that a majority of reasonable people would be of the same opinion. I'm quite sure nothing I've ever said here really would be considered unreasonable by both the general public or the wider athletics community.

As well as that, why should I be picked out amongst all the doping accusations here? As I said, at least I do provide evidence, even if circumstantial, as well as argument. The reason I get picked on here is because I started off by claiming (perhaps a little too loudly, and admittedly, crudely) that the assumption that East Africans are genetically better at running than other peoples is both racist and false.

Coevett wrote:

Blacko wrote:

So last week I was Bernard Lagat and now I am Paul Chelimo. Awesome! What's my medal count by now?

And I called Ovett slow? What a lying dickhead you are.

Sue me for what? You have been denigrating Kenyans on here for well over one year.

This forum is an utter hotbed of throwing doping accusations about. Actually I'm one of 2 or 3 here who provides links and arguments.

I believe the last time I dealt with you on this site you tried to claim that planting potatoes was evidence of doping so...

Coevett wrote:

Accusing Seb Coe of doping because the GDR was doping or because he cheated on his partner is slander.

But accusing El G of doping because Kaouch paced him in a 1500m is not slander? You're blind to your frequent hypocrisy.