Mekhissi is Algerian, which is in Africa. Thus Jager is the best non-African born steepler.
Born and raised in France. Also, 3 Olympic and 2 WC medals to 1 and 1 for Jager. I think just with those data points that a fairly convincing argument is made for MMB.
With a cheap bronze by protest as well. I’ll tell you one thing, given all his antics, he definitely gets the award for biggest POS. Note that he was also a training partner with Makhloufi under DuPont. Take that for what you will.
Born and raised in France. Also, 3 Olympic and 2 WC medals to 1 and 1 for Jager. I think just with those data points that a fairly convincing argument is made for MMB.
With a cheap bronze by protest as well. I’ll tell you one thing, given all his antics, he definitely gets the award for biggest POS. Note that he was also a training partner with Makhloufi under DuPont. Take that for what you will.
Even without the cheap bronze, Mekhissi-Benabbad would have 4 global medals, compared to Jager's two. Also note World Athletics listed Jager as "Likely Doping" in their Athlete Biological Passport database and was a training partner with Shelby. Lets also not forget his former teammates were getting thyroid "treatments" from Dr. Jeffrey Brown until USADA started sniffing around.
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