it's suspicious as hell when an 18 year old bursts on the scene looking like the greatest 1500 talent ever. And also suspicious when a 28 year old comes out of nowhere to beat the olympic champion in a race that he's peaking for.
The good thing is that if these guys are cheats, they'll likely be flushed out of the pack by 28. Unfortunately, they will have taken a couple scalps along the way, in the meantime.
As if the article can be taken as gospel and Koech can be trusted at face value. Because of course no Kenyan or his handlers would ever lie.
All that be determined with reasonable accuracy is that Koexh is likely yet ANOTHER doper from a culture that condones cheating.
Ah a TraQanon subscriber. If Koech was so devious why would he have freely offered info about training in Kenya this winter.
So now there’s a whole network of an American coach, a Kenyan-American group leader in Colorado Springs in on a lie about where Koech was the last two months. When being in Kenya is no crime and in fact where a huge number of tests/busts happen.
Kenyans always blab to Westerners telling them what they want to hear? We don’t even take aspirin. Remember those days? 400 busts later has put the lie to that. Man the gullibility, people walk right into it eyes wide open. That type of thinking is why the doping problem is so bad. Cultures operate differently and many African cultures cannot be taken at face value (never mind areas of the West and East as well).
Ethan Strand last year was runner with 3:35 PB, now he is runner 3:30.25 with super fast close, easily beating Olympic champion, showing like he has 3:28 at least in him.
If he would be from another country, especially Africa, here would already be a lot of threads about doping... but not for Strand
Yet another suspicious american runner. Weird how many of them will only run american meets untill championships as well.
Kenyans always blab to Westerners telling them what they want to hear? We don’t even take aspirin. Remember those days? 400 busts later has put the lie to that. Man the gullibility, people walk right into it eyes wide open. That type of thinking is why the doping problem is so bad. Cultures operate differently and many African cultures cannot be taken at face value (never mind areas of the West and East as well).
He very well might be doping. I strongly doubt there’s a conspiracy to lie about where he trains.
it's suspicious as hell when an 18 year old bursts on the scene looking like the greatest 1500 talent ever. And also suspicious when a 28 year old comes out of nowhere to beat the olympic champion in a race that he's peaking for.
The good thing is that if these guys are cheats, they'll likely be flushed out of the pack by 28. Unfortunately, they will have taken a couple scalps along the way, in the meantime.
For 21 years old running 5 sec PB with super fast close is also very suspicious
Ethan Strand last year was runner with 3:35 PB, now he is runner 3:30.25 with super fast close, easily beating Olympic champion, showing like he has 3:28 at least in him.
If he would be from another country, especially Africa, here would already be a lot of threads about doping... but not for Strand
His age is verified. He is tested regularly. Those two items already make him much different from say Kenyans, who have 400 suspended athletes and constantly lie about their ages. Run along little Social Justice Warrior.
In what universe is ethan strand tested regularly?
it's suspicious as hell when an 18 year old bursts on the scene looking like the greatest 1500 talent ever. And also suspicious when a 28 year old comes out of nowhere to beat the olympic champion in a race that he's peaking for.
The good thing is that if these guys are cheats, they'll likely be flushed out of the pack by 28. Unfortunately, they will have taken a couple scalps along the way, in the meantime.
For 21 years old running 5 sec PB with super fast close is also very suspicious
Okay, I’ll bit. Strand was solid as a sophomore, running 7:46 for 3k seemed to be the big standout. He ran a handful of other good races but was fairly inconsistent. The same thing happened his junior year. 45th at NCAA, solid track results here and there. 3:35 but back of the back at NCAAs and the trials. I’ll admit, I’m a hater of double threshold. I don’t think it’s magic. But damn it’s hard to argue with the results. UNC started doing double T in the spring of 2024 and all through this last academic year. It’s clearly working wonder for Strand. They used to do longer threshold sessions of 7-8 miles pretty regularly. Maybe the efforts were too hard as well. Now they do a lot of 5 and 5 or 6 and 4. Larger overall volume, smaller per session, seemingly a more gentle pace but tough to tell exactly. I really hate to admit it, but double T just works (for some people, I’ll keep being a hater).
I think that’s spot on. Abel Teffra of Georgetown mentioned the same thing after he won NCAAs.
Ethan Strand last year was runner with 3:35 PB, now he is runner 3:30.25 with super fast close, easily beating Olympic champion, showing like he has 3:28 at least in him.
If he would be from another country, especially Africa, here would already be a lot of threads about doping... but not for Strand
He’s a white American boy, so his heart is the most tender and pure and incapable of wrong. Second only to white American girls.