More Kenyans busted

No, it doesn't.

So why do they dope like it's their national pastime?

Sure. But don't let me stop you from wondering about why, and the consequences.

I don't ever claim my direct responses to off-topic comments are themselves on-topic to the thread.

I didn't claim "that Athletics Illustrated is "hardly" neutral when it comes to "Kenyan busts". Score another one for reading comprehension.

It has been described repeatedly in various articles, if you ever bothered to actually pay attention to the topic you mindlessly rant about every day. Actually rant doesn't qualify, since you use the same handful of words every time. Kenya's doping is financially motivated. They are not trying to make national or international teams. The vast majority are desperately trying to feed themselves and their families, or enable a better life. Kenya didn't place enough emphasis on doping testing until recently because they knew the cheating was aimed primarily at the local races:

apnews.com

Kenya's crisis is unique and driven by poverty, track and field's anti-doping head tells the AP

Kenya is likely to haul in another good chunk of medals in distance races at the upcoming track and field world championships in Hungary.

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"The root of Kenya’s problem is unique in the global athletics ecosystem, according to the man whose job it is to fix it. It’s very different to the state-sponsored scheme that led to Russia being thrown out of international track."

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"The vast majority of the hundreds of distance runners pouring out of Kenya’s high-altitude training grounds are not running for gold medals at the world championships and the Olympics or for national pride. They are competing for pay checks first, running to get away from poverty.

Because of that, Kenya’s doping problem didn’t start on the track, Clothier said, but in road running; the marathons and the 5K and 10K races around the world — the grinding edge of distance running away from the major track meets but which is the most lucrative part of athletics and where there’s good money on offer almost every week to attract Kenya’s bountiful talent.

"This money that we’re talking about ... is life-changing,” Clothier said. “Not just for them, but for their families, their whole communities. In essence, it really is all about the money.”

This is not an excuse for fraud. Cheating is always cheating. The Kenyan's appear to be philosophically sophisticated enough to know when to lie and how to, to be able to juggle the protocols of any number of illegal drugs. Many are dirty. Time will tell how many.

Who are "they"?

Kenyan athletes.

The clue is in the name of the thread.

Which Kenyan athletes?

Pretty much all of them living and training in Kenya.

Why aren't Ethiopians, Ugandans, Eritreans doping?

Why just Kenyans?

Look at recent busts from Cheptegei's camp in Uganda. Ugandans are doping as well. Until recently, little in country testing has taken place.

Where did you got this info?

270 Kenyans banned since 2015.

Kenya has had 270 top runners since 2015?

Any other country with that many bans would be barred from competing globally. It is only because the powers that be think Kenyan shouldn’t be held to as high a standard as other countries. Mostly the soft bigotry of low expectations.

OK, changing the subject. Because you don't have any argument for your claim.

What are you talking about? 270.

That is like every single runner at ncaa xc being banned.

So again: Kenya has had 270 top runners since 2015?