Chepngetich banned 3 years - Whatsapp messages for testosterone, anavar from April 2024

Please ban Kenya from the sport for the next 2 decades. They can compete in the Enhanced Games if they need to make money.

is Kenya Running? cause the athletes will just run for Bahrain and the rest of you lot

No. They are black.

She says she was feeling unwell and took a pill from her housekeeper. Turns out the pill was Hydrochlorothiazide. Sounds believable to me!

But her implausible WR is still valid? WTF? Also, she didn't actually admit culpability. AFTER she tested positive, she came up with an implausible story about coincidentally taking a housemaid's medicine. Yeah, right.

https://athleticsweekly.com/news/ruth-chepngetich-banned-for-three-years-for-doping-1040008418/

I think Rojo's owed an apology.

runningmagazine.ca

Kenyan parliament demands U.S. journalist apologize for marathon world record question - Canadian Running Magazine

https://www.facebook.com/marley.dickinson

After the race, American journalist Robert Johnson asked Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich how she'd respond to those who believe her world record time of 2:09:56 is too good to be true

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I think shorter penalties should occur only if they are willing to blow the lid on the situation.

WHO provided you with the drugs?

Did your COACH know you were using, or worse, did your coach ASSIST you in your drug cycling?

Was your AGENT involved?

Who PAID for the drugs, if not you?

WHAT drugs were you taking (not just the one you tested positive for, ALL of them)?

WHEN did you start taking the drugs? (Ban should NOT be extended back to this date to promote honesty)

If you have been taking drugs and beating drug tests for years, HOW did you cycle the drugs or what masking agents did you use to accomplish this?

FULL honesty = a lesser sentence; if they won't throw guilty people under the bus then they should get a full-length ban.

I'm shocked that the marathon WR holder was doping. LOLL.

Ban her for life and ban Kenya.

Kipchoge was also doped.

Look at this list. Any one with brain know that East African dominate Long distances "naturally". They have a natural boost and this worrying you and the likes of you.

worldathletics.org

Marathon - men - senior - all

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The only intruders I see in that list are "artificial performances" (caused by extremely favorable conditions) like the one of Conner MANTZ. A true intruder.

Here are the problems of your society based on individualism and banning others.

You find yourself isolated.

Why Britain Needs 700,000 Immigrants a Year

Ban Rosa !

Emma Bates posted about this on her IG story. She also took a not so subtle jab at Shelby in the post (Phoenix emoji)- good for her tbh!

That's not the proper way to think about it. If Ruth wasn't in the race, going out crazy fast in both races, the rest of the race goes totally differently.

Maybe Sisson could have won in 2022 (when she an 2:18) but do we really think a 2:24 Emma Bates would have won in 2023? I know it was warm and the field was shallow, but it would be a totally different race.

Here is my article on the Ruth's ban.

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2025/10/ruth-chepngetichs-ban-is-upped-to-three-years-from-two-but-she-gets-to-keep-her-marathon-world-record-for-now/

They couldn't get their money back from Shobukhova. Chicago Marathon seems to be the major to cheat if you're a doper lol.

100% correct.

Now I will say the first instance of an anti-doping violation should start retroactive stripping of medals/times. This came up during Katirs whereabouts/tampering thing and Nasers too. The first missed test/incriminating moment should start the punishment. They have that for ABP violations (which are hard to prove) yet don’t for objective stuff like this or missed tests. More deterrence not less due to some bizarre standard of fairness.

I think that once an athlete is caught doping or admits to doping, their entire competitive career should be stricken from the record. Damnatio memoriae.

Chicago’s Race Director should delete her performance from the archives. Don’t recognize it. If not, this nonsense will continue to happen. It was blatantly obvious that performance was achieved with drugs. Carey, we await your response, do what is right for the sport. Take the lead, others will follow.

Shouldn't she be charged with fraud

She gets to keep all of her earnings and the record.....which is DAF. Any who is caught should have all records removed period.

I got the years wrong, but my point stands that they were runner-ups in Chicago to Ruth, and we truthfully don’t know when Ruth started doping so to a lot of us, it casts a shadow on all of her performances.

In 2021 it was warm and Ruth beat Emma by less than 2 mins in 2:22. Perhaps a clean performance. In 2022 she won in 2:14 to Sisson’s 2:18. The 2:14 at the time was 2nd fastest in history and 3 minute PR- I doubt it was clean.