Haters Beware. Elijah "Lion" Manangoi is Back!

No, it isn't. It is a doping violation, treated the same as a positive test. An athlete who evades testers is given to be doping. His performances, both before and after the violation, reinforce that take.

That is your interpretation, but no that isn’t something that is voiced by WADA, the AIU or anyone else. It is a violation, but it doesn’t mean you are a doper. If you want to presume he is along with Coevett feel free.

Is he still with Rongai? Or training on his own?

To miss one test may be carelessness; to miss two is serious and he would know, as any other top athlete would, that he could not afford to miss another - he would be disgraced and his career possibly ended. So he missed a third test. From this we might surmise two alternative explanations; the first the presumption by WADA that he was evading testing to avoid being caught doping, and the second - which WADA and no one else maintains - is that he is so simple-minded that he had no idea of the seriousness of failing to meet his obligations. I haven't seen anyone suggest that. So what does that leave us with?

And the excuses were terrible too. Caught up in a traffic jam out of Nairobi to rural Rongei at 4 am??? Of course that could easily be checked up on, if somebody like Jonathan Gault wanted to to do real journalism. Instead, LetsRun appear to have an official moderation policy of deleting any threads or posts suggesting that Manangoi may ever have doped.

*Manangoi one of the most tech savvy Kenyan runners, yet his whereabouts failures were due to being an uneducated Kenyan (Canova and other's view, not mine).

*Was on track to make a serious attempt at sub 3:26 at Monaco in 2019 and was boasting of it, but oddly suddenly starts producing the kind of performances we've seen since his return - 3:40 territory.

*Pulls out of Doha at the very last moment. Little brother George flops in heats.

*George decides to join the army. With his amazing talent, it does seem a strange decision given the earnings that Manangoi himself has stated he making through athletics in the years up to his suspension - the relative equivalent of making over $200 million in the USA. He too is a shadow of his former self on his return.

*Doping apologists defend his poor form since his return as having missed 'multiple years'. In fact, he effectively missed one season (2021). The astonishing times recorded by runners on return to competition after lockdown has been attributed (to Coe himself) as them doing nothing but training rather than racing. Manangoi has done nothing but train for 2 years and boasted he was back in top shape and going to Oregon, yet he is 10 seconds slower. MakhDaddy came back after 3 years no racing at age 32 to win silver in Doha.

It's one thing to claim that it's unfair and even 'racist' to suspect Kenyan runners in general because of the large number of doping scandals. It's quite another thing to claim it's unfair to be suspicious of a man suspended for anti-doping offences.

The AIU obviously has that rule because otherwise those doping could simply evade tests. And even if you were willing to give his shady excuses for missing those tests credence and give him some slack, his ridiculous drop in performance level on his return should leave you in little doubt.

I was starting to have some respect for you here, but you're showing your true colors again. I wonder if it's you who is getting my posts on Manangoi deleted?

El K claimed (during his suspension) that he was beating Tim in training. Tim did drop Manangoi from his social media lists.

OK, thanks, I just saw this comment. I'll have a listen of the podcast now.

Jonathan Gault should follow Elijah Manangoi on social media. There he would see that he has been training his butt off for the last two years. Another point is that his suspension ended in July 2021 as it was backdated to the first whereabouts test failure.

And all through his suspension he was posting pics of himself training with the Rongei group.

Lol czechmate.

Now, why are you lying? He posted pictures of his farm, never training until this year.

Charlie Grice only had one completed race in 2022, so he obviously had major injury problems.

The 3:30 he ran at Monaco in 2019 was a bit of an outlier to say the least, and even then he was having injuries.

Plus, if he had been suspended for three whereabouts failures I would have no problem seeing him as a doper. Oh and if the top Brit before him had been busted for EPO as well, and Britain had had 250+ distance running busts instead of 1 or 2. Oh yeah, and a younger brother who ran 3:30 at 18 and "didn't consider Jakob to be a serious rival" and who dropped off the cliff ay exactly the same time as older brother, and who is now running the same 8-10 seconds slower.