Kipchoge is one of my favorite distance runners of all time, regardless of doping results. I don't worship these guys or see them as some kind of idols. In the present paradigm, with all of his given conditions, he achieved greatness and inspired me to keep grinding out the miles. Also, Kipchoge and the sub two guys all helped push the evolution of the running sneaker to a new universe. Would it have happened without him, without PEDs, who knows. But he was the face and indentity that carried the burden of constant public scrutiny and overcame himself to deliver these records and help us etch some marks into our shared history.
God bless
US Army 2 mile PR: 10:14
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God, the board just thrives on sensationalist misinformation. Kwemoi hasn't been with Patrick Sang for a while now. He was in Japan last I heard.
We know what's coming next. You'll demand Kipchoge still speaks on this athlete that got banned because it's not sensational enough news on it's own. No, he doesn't have to. Not even if he was still in their camp. Doping is an individual decision.
same people who think Kenya should be banned because of the doping positives also tend to think Ethiopia must be doping wildly and getting away with because of the lack of doping positives. Gotta pick a lane.
You already described it. The doping cynics think they are entitled to every lane.
They get a few days every year where everyone swoons to their side. It reminds me of the bum underneath the horse track grandstand who loudly gives a pick every race. Every once in a once he stumbles onto a winner.
Why don't you do the real morally correct thing and challenge the promotion of a false concept of super human metabolism?
Can you reply honestly?
Huh? Look I’m saying I don’t have the answers but would you agree that the Peter Bol situation was handled poorly? So, all I’m saying is I hope that history doesn’t repeat itself with a different standard that can be subjective.
Yes I understand your point, but do you understand mine? I don't have a solution other than telling young athletes that the best reason not to dope is because it won't make you faster, that comes from genetics and training. Just like wejo said "there are no magic bullets". I wish he would back that up with some conviction.
Exactly. European managers, agents, physios and doctors, who keep (a big) part of the prize momney won by the athletes. But if an athlete fails a doping test he/she's the only one to be forced to give back the money... Elite athletics nowadays is just slavery.
Kipchoge is doped to the gills. However, he's protected and will never get caught. He's a super nice guy, without any enemies.
Is he actually? Or is that just the persona he portrays publicly? He was kind of a dickhead after losing in Boston. Easy to be nice when everything is going your way. Your true colors show in the face of adversity
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DQ results way back to 2016, thus he essentially didn't accomplish anything as a senior athlete. Ran corporately in Japan and Brett Larner points out all the Aisan Kogyo ekiden results with him will probably be DQd too, a huge setback for the team's history.
I'm wondering what's happening with Rhonex Kipruto...
DQ results way back to 2016, thus he essentially didn't accomplish anything as a senior athlete. Ran corporately in Japan and Brett Larner points out all the Aisan Kogyo ekiden results with him will probably be DQd too, a huge setback for the team's history.
I'm wondering what's happening with Rhonex Kipruto...
And you gotta feel for his team a bit because it seems all of the flagged tests suggesting drug use occurred while he was in Kenya. It seems in Japan his tests only raise suspicion in the sense of normal values that can’t be solely explained away by sea-level conditions. Rhonex will be interesting because he seemed to suggest the case is far more limited in isolating a period where he was drinking/not training in Kenya. The suspicious results here are in the buildup to big races for Kwemoi.
the best reason not to dope is because it won't make you faster, that comes from genetics and training. Just like wejo said "there are no magic bullets". I wish he would back that up with some conviction.
Exactly. Anyone who thinks taking toxic concoctions from chemical corporations will make them faster runners is suffering from great delusions.
Look at all the people in American go constantly go to the drug dealing doctors, i.e. to "get well" or "cured" of some mysterious disease but never are. More likely they are to die from the drugs and terrible treatments (chemotherapy etc), yet people keep doing it.
People with websites who make big profits from their connections to the chemical corporations are not at all likely to change what they've been doing to this point.
The best thing for people to do is to think for themselves.