Breaking: A runner finished 12th at NCAA xc while in the middle of a doping suspension

Come on man, sew ins, tracks, extensions, etc.

And Emily Little (10th at south central) from SMU would have qualified for Nationals

ADAK Kenya are an absolute joke. Last I heard they couldn't even afford the rent on their office. Their official website list of suspended athletes hasn't been updated since 2023. Just ban Kenya now, and stop recruiting them or you'll soon have the same dirty doping culture.

Taking a close look at the Lausanne picture that doesn't appear to be the case here

What's the coach supposed to do if the runner is not on any list or data set which shows a suspension?

Not recruit overage athletes from well-known doping hotshots.

Perhaps coaches would be less inclined to take these shortcuts if they know they will have to sit out with their doper import.

The braids across her head are hers, the ones hanging from her head are not.

She can go from no hair to long hair whenever she wants. My wife does the same.

thanks for the work Covett, though it should extend world wide more.

Kenya should be banned from US universities, and the spots given to American kids.

i am not American, btw. i hate countries and people that don't support their own.

actually, across the world, most people are sell outs, of course, selling out in a way that is "acceptable'

only a few percent of the population actually has class in their morals.

Sh_t can the following:

1. The athlete. Banned from further NCAA competition. Remove all of the athlete's results and retroactively award those athletes affected by her competition their due places and accolades. Send her back to Kenya on the next flight.

2. Scholarbook - Ban them from providing their services to any NCAA / NAIA / Juco institution

3. The coach

4. The AD

Finally Lord Coe -- get your act together and ban Kenya from international competition. A four year ban to start to be reviewed after the 2028 Olympics. Time to stop this stupidity !!

"But I can certainly understand why she did it."

This always comes up with so called 3rd world. It's terribly racist and condescending. It belittles all the clean athletes from those nations who value integrity more than their welfare and get cut in line by these cheats.

It's no more shameful than someone from America cheating and taking the prize money and sponsors; if anything, it's worse because a clean athlete with a ticket out of poverty is overlooked and left on the Titanic to drown with no life boat.

How about none of us ever say we understand why the big guy pushed the mom and her kid out of the way as he made for the emergency exit and instead just say he's a despicable douche.

Correct me if I’m wrong, the article never states that she was caught doping or produced a positive test. ADAK claims she was “provisionally” suspended due to “evading”. So why is this whole thread jumping to a conclusion?

That could become a "discus" type word here if hyped up the right way. Great words for those competitors who are known or suspected cheats - conpetitors, they conpete, they are the conpetition that the honest athletes are competing against.

.....and 2 dudes get dq'd for illegal shoes in the men's 5k? What is going on in the AAC!!!!

Evading is a direct violstion. And basic logic is even more fundamental. No one adamantly refuses an antidoping test if they are clean. And it happened at a half marathon, where doping gets caught much more frequently bc the athletes tend to macrodose. This is why this sport is a joke. "Yes she direct violated fundamental antidoping protocols and refused to be tested, but she didn't test positive, so....". Loll. That is like running away from a breathalizer test.

Just like Gabby Thomas.

Why do they call it an “anti-doping violation”? That sounds like a double negative, like she was suspended for not doping. You never hear about someone arrested for anti-drug crimes.

I think you might be looking at this wrong. Instead of
focusing on all those behind her, it might be best to think how kick ass those
who beat her are. You should be given a special prize, a solid gold
trophy and any time you enter a building you should be celebrated with an
announcement: "beat doped kenyan runner in distance championships"
And if we are trying to make money for the sport, someone
can make a reverse documentary and sell it to Amazon Prime. Can interview
those 11 elite athletes, take us through their training up to the race and go
through their races in each episode. Might good also to include those who
came up just a bit short.

tell us you're white without telling us you're white

Okay you seem to know more on this detail so I'll defer to you.

Lets look again at what we do know from this though:

1. She ran official races at Lausanne and Kilimanjaro as a member of the Bravehearts team, which Bravehearts posted about and highlighted.

2. She does not appear in the results of the Kapsabet half (there was also a 10K, which she doesn't appear in the results of either. There is no video of the 10K)

3. She does not visibly appear in the video of the half.

So there are a few options:

1. She ran in the 10K, of which there is no video and her name was removed from the results because of her refusal to drug test.

2. She ran in the half marathon and made a concerted effort to not be recognized by not wearing the Scott uniform and removing her braids. Her name may have been struck from the results, or she may have run under an assumed name.

So I'm honestly pretty open to GingerLemon's claim that she was running as a bib mule.

Now, does that change the fact that she had a doping violation? Not at all, and the punishment should be commensurate. But I do think it's entirely possible she didn't actually dope, and evaded the test so she wouldn't be caught for muling.