Craig Engels Reposts Lifetime Doping Ban Quote from Phelps

You don't LIKE to think about it, but you will have to. Cole Hocker isn't fresh outta college like in 2021, last time he had a huge PR jump in an Olympic final.

This time, not only another huge PR jump in an Olympic final, he's probably the first in history to go straight from 3:30 to 3:27. And that's a low 3:27. Everyone with a faster PB than him - El G, Lagat, Kiprop, etc - hit 3:28 or 3:29 somewhere along the way.

any proof of this? genuinely curious. based on what they said on coffee club he barely takes supplements.

engels was very likely talking about the steeple - even if what you're saying is true he's unlikely to be publically salty about the 1500m guys - it's a bad look for him even if he's right

Of course not.

This is misleading at best. He ran 3:30 in a very tactical 1500 and looked amazing doing it - he closed in a 52 for crying out loud. It was obvious he could have gone at least 3:28 high after that and everyone was saying it.

I mean, this is the guy that ran 3:31 in an Olympic final at 19. It's not like he's unproven talent or anything

Craig regularly posts about testing transparency in the sport, and with regard to the timing of THIS post, there is a less-than-24-hour-old quote from Michael Phelps in the current news cycle (as one would expect as Phelps has been all over the TV everyday of this Olympiad) which I think Craig probably just simply reposted with the click of a button without thinking about the timing/optics of it. He's probably repost that 100% of the time regardless of what day of the year it is I don't think he meant anything by it.

But wow, what horrible sentiment towards Craig oozing from this thread. That's not I feel. Speak for yourselves.

Craig Engels is a joke; a total has been who wasted his talent. Go back to drinking beer and growing out your mullet.

lol I suppose you missed Nuguse's 3:43 mile (3:27 1500 equivalent) at Pre last year. A feat Kerr had not accomplished until today. Keep screaming about nothing you misinformed troll

3:30 to 3:27 has never been proven possible, no matter how you slice it. Not even close.

Sounds like shots fired to me.

Engles is right. One failed test or whereabout failure should be a lifetime ban.

A few years ago a lot of athletes posted their testing results. They asked everyone do it. It was because Yared would show 2 missed test. He missed another this year. You cannot find any of this, because it’s illegal for WADA to show you anything but 3 missed test or a failed test.

Yared is a lot like Lagat was. He’s a great guy, so he’s hard not to like.

Craig should have doped if he wanted to be a legit contender in US track. Idgaf that Hocker and Nuguse and Hobbs almost certainly are because the other guys in this final almost certainly are too. Who fkn cares

Repeating lies won’t make them true.

isnt there mandatory testing in the Olympics? so if anyone cheated we should know soon.

If this post is serious it might be one of the dumbest things I've ever read on the board. You think the guys cheating actually test positive?

Craig Engels worked with shady coaches at NOP I don't really care what he has to say about any of it.

Shows once again that running with rabbits and lights ridiculous.

I do not know.

You guys asked why. You were told why. You don’t like the answer.

His coach was the only person who admitted he doped with NOP, other than the assistant coach Magness.