Michael Saruni banned 4 years for evading test at 2022 Kenyan trials

Well. When you are doing woo for the endurance and roids for power, have have 2x as many things to screw up. That being said if the marathoners aren’t also doing some roids to help with recovery, I would be shocked..

I love you dear Coevett!!! I will always remember your wide-eyed curiosity and earnest-ness for electromagnetic knowledge and understanding! I know you know I possess THE ONE AND ONLY TRUTH OF THE UNIVERSE!!!! We have that telepathic understanding between each other!!!!

But yes, our dear rekrunner is extremely hypocritical and pretentious in his dealings on LRC, always prefacing his words, statements and phrases with 'within limitations', 'strictly controlled observations', 'strictly objective facts' as if we are dumb enough to not know that he has a dark ulterior agenda and motive that is destined and designed to protect dopers, doping and all other criminal and sexual offenders!!!

I want you, dear Coevett, to watch out for the rise of my man Hobbs Kessler who is taking my advice on avoidance of anthropogenic RF and EMF very seriously as he charts his path to the top of the distance running ladder!!! I have high hopes for him after seeing how my advice has benefitted his nervous system early season running 3:33 indoors for the 1500m. That's easily 3:30 outdoors right now!!!

If Hobbs plays his cards right and observes my RF rules and laws he will be running faster than Nuguse at the 1500m and mile soon!!! You don't need to run a ton or run like a king in training to perform well at races, you only need to take care to avoid anthropogenic RF and EMF exposure will do and the rest will fall in place!!!

Is Ereng still his coach? What about Korir?

Titan?

LOL Damned if they test, Damned if they don't.

What are you even talking about??? This happened in 2022, speculation about what may or may not have hypothetically transpired in 2023 lends no strength to your point.

Trying and making progress are two different things. I applaud the effort it appears AIU/Kenya are making, and they have caught a lot of dopers, but it's clear it's falling short.

Very proud of ADAK.

Even while glowing, US-based Saruni was never in contention and could only manage a distant 8th at those trials. PEDs clearly not working for him.

Here IS what happened in 2023, yet you are harping on the status quo of 2022:

https://www.athleticsintegrity.org/downloads/pdfs/other/Press-Release-AIU-AND-ADAK-SET-5000-TARGET-AS-TESTING-RAMPS-UP-FOR-KENYAN-ATHLETES.pdf

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Anti-doping rules catch athletes by surprise as low-key AK trials start

Even the starter’s gun jammed twice, and when it finally blasted, it was a subdued crack of a matchstick.

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This is not to say, doping has been solved, but it is to say that Kenya is failing because they ARE testing more, increasing deterrence, shutting down doping rings AND catching dopers is a strange position.

Not just one meet, its routine there.

That's the reason this thread has not received nearly the number of replies as similar threads. You would think a Kenyan 4 year ban would prompt a flurry of posts from the usual "ban the entire country" suspects.

Instead they are absent because the related report makes it very clear that steps are being taken, and dating to summer 2022.

And yet everyone on LRC has always (and continues to claim) that the 800 is "the undopeable event." So much for that narrative...

Good question, and what was the PED? Also in general, if people are charged for evading tests, once they catch up with that person, are the tests still carried out?

Some athletes come clean and admit what they are taking, but they could be lying, or not admit anything to protect the person who sold them the goods. I think it would help to know what they are using and where they got it etc, though sometimes the half-life is too short for some tests.

I don't ever apologize for evasion, nor for intentional doping.

Evading testers by ducking in the bathroom and finding and paying a body double and then running away is more damning than simply missing OOC testers.

It suppose doping must have helped Karuni take 9th place, three seconds behind the winner.

They clearly were working for him when he ran 1:14.79 and 1:43.25 NCAA record in 2018.

2018
1:43.25
Tucson, AZ (USA)
28 APR 2018

Trained in the US by a Kenyan coach at UTEP. And your point is?

Forced steps are being taken. One off Kenyan men and women get popped and over the year the numbers are large when compared to other countries but I feel it is a drop in the bucket. Yet for some reason… the enablers never go down. You know… coaches, pharmacists, doctors, agents, dealers. Why? Because those that get popped are afraid for their life and the lives of their relatives if they squeal.

Ban the entire country of Kenya from athletics. There, I said it.

That is starting to happen. More work to be done, of course

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Four arrested in Iten, Kapsabet as government intensifies war on doping

Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba lauded the multi-agency team reiterating that government will not relent on the war on doping.

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Kenyan authorities seize illegal shipment of doping materials

Kenya's anti-doping authority says it seized a smuggled shipment of medication that included 150 boxes of triamcinolone acetonide.

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no, they just need to hired inspired YouTube and tiktok sprinters, maybe basketball YouTubers will be good at such jobs.