Agreed, frankly, his father was likely the biggest issue here.
Look, we all love our family members, and sometimes our own egos get too involved and lead to poor decision making by pushing us to feel we need to be consulting or guiding our family members.
In reality, the best thing we can do is best exactly what we are, their family members.
He's a duck in a raft of ducks. Most are African, which is obvious, however anyone at the top is quacking. If they aren't then they aren't keeping up. Pretty simple
Have you watched the Track All Access videos? All he does is eat sleep and run. Lives in Flagstaff and has his father and brothers there to train with. I doesn't surprise me.
Ummmm for those who really follow track and field know that Josh Hoey ran 1:47 indoor. while still in high school. then turned pro. Its not an easy transition when turning pro. but consistancy is the key. So many of Americas high school sensations give up when they hit a roadblock. but this kid didnt! Learn about these runners backgrounds before talking nonsense
LMAO Maurten's fancy baking soda is not why Sedjati and Tual became world beaters (until the Olympics- weird). Josh Hoey hasn't been relevant in some time and now just pops this? Quack. Quack. Quack.
TO THE GILLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! so blatant, complete nobody with no decent times/performances suddenly produces a near world record, get in the bin you disgusting doggggggg
The sport of running is broken if JOSH HOEY is doping. One thing is for sure, the sport's fandom is already broken, as evidenced by this ridiculous thread.
Hoey's improvement correlates with switching to a top professional coach, going to train at altitude, and doing threshold work, markedly improving his endurance, that for a guy with the talent to run 1:47 in high school but amateur or inconsistent coaching and no professional group outside of his brothers. Even so, we're going to see even more improvement from him as he gets more used to the threshold work. His session in Flagstaff that is up now of 25x400 on 30s rest from 70-75 shows a lot of room for improvement over the course of the year. My bet is that he was a speed-based 800 runner in high school and that it is only in the past year that they realized he needed a lot more volume at lower intensity. The mile and 1k indoors show that this added volume and altitude work have already paid off. The 1:43.8 outdoors shows that Rinaldi took another talented guy swiftly to a world class level.
So, there are good reasons to believe the improvement is legit, esp. with the bicarb and new 800 spikes working so well this year and leading to big drops, and I believe he is clean, but I am definitely not ruling out a future positive, given the long period of stagnation and the fact that his dad has money and invests as much of his time and money into his boys' training as it takes.
The sport of running is broken if JOSH HOEY is doping. One thing is for sure, the sport's fandom is already broken, as evidenced by this ridiculous thread.
As someone stated earlier (in slightly different fashion) - before hurt feelings had the post removed - it is a FACT that most of the negative posters would be begging to chew on Hoey’s soiled jock if he were African.
The sport of running is broken if JOSH HOEY is doping. One thing is for sure, the sport's fandom is already broken, as evidenced by this ridiculous thread.
As someone stated earlier (in slightly different fashion) - before hurt feelings had the post removed - it is a FACT that most of the negative posters would be begging to chew on Hoey’s soiled jock if he were African.
If a Kenyan ran 1:47 indoors at 18, no one here would have noticed. You can give the “everybody loves Africans here” victimhood a rest.