Purity CHEROTICH Rionoripo (1500m/3000m/3000m Steeplechase/Cross) Born: 10 June 1993, Chepapten village, Kaptabuk, Rift Valley Province 42kg Coach: Geoffrey Thormos Manager: Federico Rosa
Gault should take this on. Letsrun should honestly create some kind of central repository of everyone that is currently banned, what they are banned for, their coaches/agents. I have lost track of who is who with how many runners have been popped this year from Kenya.
How about a full throated investigation piece about the Italian connection? It is well known in cycling circles that Italian doctors, coaches, and agents were heavily engaged in doping activities. Did they turn their attentions to running and using Western guilt about race to insulate their actions in East Africa? Perhaps look at the Dutch too?
The problem with the Letsrun staff is they are more concerned with playing the role of "contrarian" as evidenced by their handling of the Houlihan case, than getting to the actual truth.
Kenya will have no runners left by 2023 at this rate. The fact that people will continue to deny that there is a systemic issue in Kenya is crazy. Also, there must be some new test out this year because I can't ever remember even close to this many busts before
There will always be runners from Kenya, clean or not, because at the end of the day they are more talented than the majority of Wazungus who run.
Kenya will have no runners left by 2023 at this rate. The fact that people will continue to deny that there is a systemic issue in Kenya is crazy. Also, there must be some new test out this year because I can't ever remember even close to this many busts before
There will always be runners from Kenya, clean or not, because at the end of the day they are more talented than the majority of Wazungus who run.
I no longer believe Kenyans are "more talented" when they are getting busted every single day.
Kenya will have no runners left by 2023 at this rate. The fact that people will continue to deny that there is a systemic issue in Kenya is crazy. Also, there must be some new test out this year because I can't ever remember even close to this many busts before
There will always be runners from Kenya, clean or not, because at the end of the day they are more talented than the majority of Wazungus who run.
30 busts in a single year later and that illusion has been shattered for me
I would really love to see someone (maybe this website?) do a deep dive into all of these bans. Specifically, who are the coaches/agents, who are the training groups, etc.
Looks like Gianni Demadonna is the agent here.
Gault should take this on. Letsrun should honestly create some kind of central repository of everyone that is currently banned, what they are banned for, their coaches/agents. I have lost track of who is who with how many runners have been popped this year from Kenya.
Nice idea, but my sense is that Gault and the Johnson's have done more to defend convicted/suspected dopers than to condemn them in recent years. So maybe someone else would be better to lead this project.
There will always be runners from Kenya, clean or not, because at the end of the day they are more talented than the majority of Wazungus who run.
30 busts in a single year later and that illusion has been shattered for me
Kenyans are doping because they have to compete against other doping East Africans and doping Jakob. They are not concerned as a general rule with you silly white boys. This is a sport for men and you boys are not on their radar.
Gault should take this on. Letsrun should honestly create some kind of central repository of everyone that is currently banned, what they are banned for, their coaches/agents. I have lost track of who is who with how many runners have been popped this year from Kenya.
I love this idea. Great way for the letsrun team to play an active role in cleaning up the sport. We can call it the Hall of Shame.
I like this idea too but I don't want to hear doping accusations without evidence. One of the problems with the clean-up is that it makes everyone seem like a cheat when in reality it's coming from the act of actually trying to clean-up the sport. Instead of wondering how many more get caught we should be thankful that we have a system in place that is catching cheats.
There will always be runners from Kenya, clean or not, because at the end of the day they are more talented than the majority of Wazungus who run.
30 busts in a single year later and that illusion has been shattered for me
A notion has been floated that the epidemic of Kenyan doping busts relative to other East African nations is because of more rigorous enforcement and not different rates of elicit behavior. This is an opportunity for some real journalism. Not only do we need to understand the web of enablers (agents, coaches, etc) of the banned athletes and how they intersect, we need an accounting of the testing that’s occurred over the past few years among a representative sample of elite runners from the different countries. Is this information in the public domain? It’s critical to either support or refute this idea that what seems to be a disproportionate number of Kenyan positive tests are related to better enforcement. This seems very implausible to me, but I’d love to see some real data and analysis.
As for solutions, how about also banning the coaches and agents of banned runners? That might change behavior dramatically. Right now the enablers are incentivized to implicitly or explicitly support doping. If their athlete gets away with it, they profit, and if they get caught, oh well, they didn’t know about it and they just move on to others with no consequences. It corrupts the environment.
30 busts in a single year later and that illusion has been shattered for me
A notion has been floated that the epidemic of Kenyan doping busts relative to other East African nations is because of more rigorous enforcement and not different rates of elicit behavior. This is an opportunity for some real journalism. Not only do we need to understand the web of enablers (agents, coaches, etc) of the banned athletes and how they intersect, we need an accounting of the testing that’s occurred over the past few years among a representative sample of elite runners from the different countries. Is this information in the public domain? It’s critical to either support or refute this idea that what seems to be a disproportionate number of Kenyan positive tests are related to better enforcement. This seems very implausible to me, but I’d love to see some real data and analysis.
As for solutions, how about also banning the coaches and agents of banned runners? That might change behavior dramatically. Right now the enablers are incentivized to implicitly or explicitly support doping. If their athlete gets away with it, they profit, and if they get caught, oh well, they didn’t know about it and they just move on to others with no consequences. It corrupts the environment.
I would really love to see someone (maybe this website?) do a deep dive into all of these bans. Specifically, who are the coaches/agents, who are the training groups, etc.
Looks like Gianni Demadonna is the agent here.
Gault should take this on. Letsrun should honestly create some kind of central repository of everyone that is currently banned, what they are banned for, their coaches/agents. I have lost track of who is who with how many runners have been popped this year from Kenya.
Do you really think these athletes get the PED's on their own? How would they know what best med to get?
Since Boston 2021 was televised on ESPN, will Jon Anderson do a story/a retraction on SportsCenter tonight?
Why is Ethiopia Federation allowed to conduct their own drug tests?
If we want to clean up the sport and make it exciting and professional we might pit countries against countries like in the football world cup. I have suggested to Boston they score teams as in NCAA XC and pay prize money only to teams and no appearance money. The teams will have to enforce doping rules or the entire team gets no pay after they have gone to the expense of getting to the race. The public would better be able to follow the sport with a single headline like Ethiopian beats Kenya, or Argentina beats France....instead of a new name who may be disqualified in the future.
There is more to say about this and maybe readers will comment?
All of the Kenyan busts are coming from AIU and not Kenya. This just shows that testing needs to be done by a rival. Having teams test themselves doesn’t do anything. You just get more of the same. Set it up so teams are testing other teams you might have something.
In the meantime I would like to see major races stop inviting Kenyans and/or making them ineligible for prize money and appearance fees.
I would really love to see someone (maybe this website?) do a deep dive into all of these bans. Specifically, who are the coaches/agents, who are the training groups, etc.
Looks like Gianni Demadonna is the agent here.
Gault should take this on. Letsrun should honestly create some kind of central repository of everyone that is currently banned, what they are banned for, their coaches/agents. I have lost track of who is who with how many runners have been popped this year from Kenya.
World Athletics should list the manager and coach of every athlete on their profiles. As they don't, Gault should do it. If he doesn't, I might set up a site for it.
The odd thing about Kenyan runners, even established elites often, and you Google your name and all that comes up is race reports. It's usually very difficult to find out who their coach or manager is.
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