Rhonex Kipruto suspended

Now that i've read the defense I think this is more akin to the Peter Bol scenario. Hopefully the truth prevails either way

There's a rush to judgment here but we should remember the Peter Bol case.

Furthermore, ABP violations are actually far more technically challenging to assess than the EPO violation that was claimed for Bol.

No one is ever 'shopped' by the guys they train with. The only exception was Lance, when one of his team mates was caught, because that was the price for a lesser penalty.

Lance was just one athlete. With Kenya it is simply one after another. Tedious and predictable. The modern-day equivalent of the E Germans.

Most recent busts had their teams distance themselves.

Dopers always have their fans 'rooting' for them. That's what fans do.

With the same conclusions. They both doped.

He's guilty. Whether he gets caught is another matter, and he and his team are banking on the utter credulity of this sports fans and the corruption of the whole process. Assuming that these athletes are doping since their teenaged years, that will manipulate the values in a blood passport, creating the false impression of a higher natural threshold. In any event, these athletes and their teams/coaches/agents/doctors work actively to defeat the tests and the BP and engage in doping practices to circumvent it. In cycling Team Sky was expert at it. They all know how to manipulate and game the BP. So an anamolous finding is a massive red flag. It just is not as direct a smoking gun as an outright positive.

It's like Medusa...eliminate one, three will return in their place. So many of them coming out of Kenya, and the issue is systemic, not an issue with one single individual.

It is a sad state for all of us across the globe that are fans of this sport.

We need to implement Singapore type laws, that way the fear will be real in regards to punishment for doping.

We'll see that's why we have a process. You'll note we found out about Shelby after her defense had already failed.

I for one want to see the documentation on the changing blood values. Busting people on changing biological passport is a relatively new process and the numbers are interesting. Human blood values can change quite dramatically for various reasons on their own and with an elite athletes raining and going back and forth to altitude and there is a lot of factors. That being said I read the abp report on one of the sub 58 kenyans who was busted recently and his heamaglobin numbers were absurd and the reticulocyte data they presented made sense in the context of epo use. Im personally waiting to see the report before I convict rhonex in my own mind.

One athlete, right … And some of his teammates. Or all of them. And the other American riders. And his main adversaries. And the winners before him. And most (but not all) of the loosers too.

At least in cycling the doping of the ‘90 and ‘00 was eventually exposed. Not so in distance running of the same period.

You are right to suggest cycling in Armstrong's era was like Kenya today.

Uhm, Shelby actually tested positive for Nandrolone.

If you actually look at this, Kipruto's suspension appears to be based on his ABP data, particularly markers showing hemoglobin discrepancies in 2020 when he wasn't competing (COVID). WADA board determined this enough to sanction. Reading the details of the process, It also seems plausible that this board used dubious assumptions in determining it's conclusion.

It does appear that there is a legitimate defense that they may be able to appeal to the CAS.

True, but iirc AIU succeeded in banning all ABP cases whose provisional ban was published. So his chances of getting away with it are poor or worse.

As for he only started doping because he lost shape? ABP cases take quite a long time to be established, meaning he must have started doping last year at least. He ran 26:XX times in 2020, 2021, and 2022, so that excuse doesn't work either.

If doping in Kenyan running was a rarity your giving him the benefit of the doubt would have some credence. But what you overlook is that with so many Kenyans now being exposed as dopers there is nothing more likely than that they are virtually all of them doping, and certainly those like Kipruto, who are suspended for violations.

free him

This is only PR from the side of the currently banned athlete. Don't take it for a fact. Again, see Shelburrito's false PR claims.