Jake Robertson wins Lisbon in 60:01!

White or rice wrote:

rojo wrote:

Here is an amazing video of the finish.

https://twitter.com/runninelvis/status/843425979691339776

Looks like Weldon and I are no longer the fastest twins in history:

https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/843432449967316993

Um, ever hear of Shigeru and Takeshi Soh?

Ummm, ever hear of "Our Wejo and Rojo"???

No???

You haven't???

LetsRun.com is yummy

white boys win

Um that's because what he said has a lot of merit. There are a seriously concerning number of Kenyans caught and even more avoiding the testers. I had it validated from another westerner living and training in Kenya how complicit they (athletes and officials) are concerning drugs.

robertson's are doing like everyone else.

like the scottish , kerr , callum etc.

they are simply playing the paula card of , holier than thou

YES that nervous system enhancing kyrptonite , IGF- lr3

look at that big mans leg go . .

problem is , they and the scottish are not willing to really dope like

eastern africans and hit the epo .

if well connected to nike like so many athletes then sure get some nike

sauce and not even worry about tests ,just keep bio passport safe

and have altitude excuse for any other hct variations .

iaaf know the dope of choice and encourage it.

athletics still all about doping and who ya know.

like do you really think laura muir wud get where she is without some

big guys behind scenes backing her . nike or various federations .

these scottish athletes all can be linked back to afew coaches who get them

up and running on the dope de jeur of igf . next step ,

if start to perform then that backing might happen if they like what see

and doping gets upped .

all fake as can be.

I don't like those twins. Came all the way from NZ to Iten to train with the Kenyans on a Kenyan soil in order to benifit and push thier career. After they done benefiting, they opened their mouth about the Kenyans saying they are dopers and giving bribes to fabricate tests, yet they didn't give any named becuase they were to chicken and weren't willing to sacrifice anything for their belief in so called clean sport, thus turnishing all the Kenyan athletes. And now that they don't go back to Iten, again because they are to chicken unwilling to stand up and sacrifice and back up their wirds, surprise surprise, they have moved to another east african soil- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to train with the Ethiopian athletes, and they keep on talking and turnishing the east Africans whom the are using to benefit from. Hypocrites. Where is their next stop? Eritrea? Uganda?

I don't care how fast you run and wether you dope or not. Dope as much as you like and run as slow or as fast you like. But first be kind and gentle and forgiving and grateful for all humans, especially those who have welcomed you in their homes for ten years, but you judged them and criticized them after you have explioted them

Come to think of it, they were in Iten for 10 years. Obviously if there is doping, the had witnessed it years before they started trashing. If clean sport was so important to them and they were men of principles, why did they keep their mouth closed all those years?

Maybe because they hadn't done benefiting and exploiting the Kenyans yet.

If they cooperated so long and benefited from a system that they claim is corrupted, then they are nothing but a couple of corrupted dopers themselves

You have some problems with logic here. If they hadn't trained in Kenya, how would they have known how it was filled with corruption and doping there.

And saying some places "welcome you, so you should be grateful...etc" is simply appealing to sympathy.

1. It's lots of doping in Kenya, perhaps they discovered that after being blind fools for years. Doesn't surprise me this brings up a lot of rage in someone trying to complete clean in their sport.

2. Seems to me they have been accepted and you're just trying to take personal jabs at them to discredit whatever negative they say about Kenya.

3. "even went so far as to claim that he had received death threats and implied that Kenyans were savages out to murder him."

Watch the documentary about Rudisha. Theres war in the streets, kenyans are killing innocents with machete. How is that not savage...

aduck2002 wrote:

robertson's are doing like everyone else

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Robertson's what are doing like everyone else?

Agree with this guy and with the most of the posters. I don't like this twins at all neither. They act so selfish and hypocritical. On the other site, I remember few years ago I tried to make an interview with one of them (via FB) for my (domestic) web, endurance.mk. Remember he didn't like to answer me a few questions and his reply was like I don't have enough time for this. u don't know my tough life.

So unproffessional and selfish. Have enough time for posting some funny photos, and don't have time to answer a few simple question. Maybe their knowledge is not on right level, who knows ...

You really think there's war in the streets of Kenya more than there is on the streets of the US?

Don't buy any so called documentary made by westerners about Africa. If there savages butchering people there, people would flee as refugees from Kenya evacuating the whole place. It's common life there. If it weren't those two NZ boys would not stay there for a decade

And if the savage means killing innocent people, then then Africa has still

A long way to catch the numbers of the western world

I am with you on this. Iwas thinking about the same thing while watchingthis race..

They are thankless fellows. They need to go to Ethiopia but the problem is, they will talk the same garbage regarding their host like they did to us.

I am not proud of him, I am not happy for him.

Al pacino wrote:

You really think there's war in the streets of Kenya more than there is on the streets of the US?

Don't buy any so called documentary made by westerners about Africa. If there savages butchering people there, people would flee as refugees from Kenya evacuating the whole place. It's common life there. If it weren't those two NZ boys would not stay there for a decade

This was not a western documentary about Africa, this was a documentary about Rudisha. This was Brother Colm C'connell and Rudisha talking about the violence, fearing their school would be next. That is savage.

- "After 29 December 2007, the day after Kenya's National Parliamentary and presidential elections, violence erupted in major cities cross Kenya, including Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu.[2] Clashes were reported throughout Kenya, which resulted in the deaths of over 600 Kenyans"

- "At the urging of the Al-Shabaab militant group,[9] a significant and increasing number of terrorist attacks in Kenya have been carried out by local Kenyans, many of whom are recent converts to Islam.[10] Estimates in 2012 placed the figure of Kenyan fighters at around 10% of Al-Shabaab's total forces."

The 2007-08 Kenyan crisis:

- By January 28, the death toll from the violence was at around 1300.[139][140] Up to 600,000 people have been displaced.[141][142][143] The largest single loss of life was when a church providing shelter from the violence to 200 people was set on fire by rioters, killing 35 people. The people who were sheltering were members of President Kibaki's tribe, the Kikuyu.[144]

- Former Olympic athlete Lucas Sang died under unknown circumstances in a riot at Eldoret on January 1.[145] Politician G. G. Njuguna Ngengi was hacked to death in Kuresoi, near Molo, on January 2,.[146] Marathon runner Wesley Ngetich Kimutai died after he was shot with an arrow on January 19, in the Trans Mara District, becoming the second international athlete to lose his life.[147][148] On January 20, Donald Odanga, former basketball international was fatally wounded by a stray police bullet.[149] On January 29, opposition MP Mugabe Were was shot to death on his driveway, and on January 31, another opposition MP, David Kimutai Too, was shot by a policeman in disputed circumstances.[150]

- On January 13, Human Rights Watch accused the police of having a "shoot to kill" policy, using live ammunition against protesters and looters.[140][151] According to the police, they have shot looters but not protesters.[151] On January 18, police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said that 510 people had been killed in the violence and that 82 of them were killed by police.[152] According to Kiraithe, the police were acting lawfully and were showing restraint because the protesters were being "used by politicians."

Savages.

Al pacino wrote:

I don't care how fast you run and wether you dope or not. Dope as much as you like and run as slow or as fast you like. But first be kind and gentle and forgiving and grateful for all humans, especially those who have welcomed you in their homes for ten years, but you judged them and criticized them after you have explioted them

So, you are upset about people denouncing Kenyan doping, but don't care about Kenyans doping and ruining our sport.

Doping is cheating. Doping steals money from clean athletes. Doping tarnishes our sport. Doping is not kind and gentle, it is a self-centered act that hurts others who chose to be clean.

dutiest wrote:

Looks like he was easing his way in to the finish and could have broken 60 if he had wanted to. Amazing, though, how slow the elites look when they are moving at 4:37 pace. They are just so efficient/powerful in their strides.

BULL. Marathoners have twig legs. You want to see POWERFUL look at powerlifter or MR. UNIVERSE. You have no idea what POWER is.

i care whether you dope wrote:

Al pacino wrote:

I don't care how fast you run and wether you dope or not. Dope as much as you like and run as slow or as fast you like. But first be kind and gentle and forgiving and grateful for all humans, especially those who have welcomed you in their homes for ten years, but you judged them and criticized them after you have explioted them

So, you are upset about people denouncing Kenyan doping, but don't care about Kenyans doping and ruining our sport.

Doping is cheating. Doping steals money from clean athletes. Doping tarnishes our sport. Doping is not kind and gentle, it is a self-centered act that hurts others who chose to be clean.

For 10 years they had been taken advantage of a system that they say is corrupted. Well, doesn't this make them corrupted as well?

Al pacino wrote:

I don't care how fast you run and wether you dope or not. Dope as much as you like and run as slow or as fast you like...

At least you are being up font about it. You don't care about clean sport and want people to keep quiet when they see something.