Ruth Chepngetich just ruined the sport of marathon

Yes that's correct!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I told you all so didn't I, I already warned you folks I said Hocker, Fisher, Nuguse, Kessler etc, the American middle distance this past summer olympics, I warned you folks!!!!!!!

Then Kipchoge, Kiptum (polygamous/adulterer/player), who else?????????

The fact that she was already a highly trained and incredible talent, makes me more suspicious of the 4min+ PR.

It feels like Barry Bonds having a career year back in 98 and getting overshadowed by the McGuire-Sosa steroid show. Bonds then proceeds to blow up like a beach ball in the offseason and shows everyone over the next few years what he could do on the same stuff.

I don't think Chepnegetich liked running 2:14 for 2nd place and getting completely overshadowed by Assefa and Hassan last fall.

Agree with your pithy insight darling!!!!!!!

As usual you fill my plate like my daily bread!!!!!!!!!!

It's so true dear Armstrong, the sport needs Jesus and his righteousness!!!!!!! Folks are way too dirty these days, even amateur and sub elite athletes down the pecking order are also doping and running incredible times these days.

I agree with you dear Steve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have always been on your side btw, just wanted to let you know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have the same type of instincts for distance sport, so do Coevett and Armstrong among others!!!!!

Don't need to mention sir, we already know that!!!!!!

Kiptum was also a player with multiple girls while Kipchoge was a faux buddha according to Coevett trying to preaching a certain brand of 'holiness' to the masses in the hopes of legitimizing his marathon prowess!!!!!!

The following things can be (and I believe are) true at the same time:

1. It's misogynist to think Chepngetich's performance today ruined the sport when Kipchoge and Kiptum have already run 1:59 - 2:01, and the women's world record tends to be around 9-10 minutes slower than the men's. She just ruined women's marathoning. Men's marathoning was already ruined, unless you think what ruins it is only for a women to finish very high among the men in a WMM.

2. Chepngetich's performance today was an improvement on her previous times, but it didn't come out of nowhere. She's been progressing consistently toward a performance like this for some time.

3. Kipchoge's, Kiptum's, and Chepngetich's performances are all impossible without PEDs. Chepngetich is just the latest to be doing what they were doing, and to respond to it as they did. Whatever she's taking, she did not just start taking it. It isn't new.

Watch the interviews of other athletes who ran Chicago today. Many of them complain about the conditions not being ideal for fast times today. Chepngetich can run faster still, as could Kiptum apparently. So:

4. Either some athletes are super-responders to this drug / these drugs, or some unusual training methods produce a super-response to them, or (less likely) they are available only to a small number of people (but have been for some years now).

Indeed too much to swallow for me too lol!!!!!!!

2:09???????? What is that????????

How fast are American women only running in 2024??????

What's Sara Hall, the other doping suspect, even running????????

2:22????? 2:22-2:09=13minutes????????? Are American women so defunct compared to Kenyan women?????

The big difference Kipchoge and Kiptum's times were in level by the men wr at 5000, 10000 and half. 2:09:56 is in level with a 28:08!! 10000m and a 5000m at 13:30!!! , and a half in sub 62 min, times far from the wr now.

Paula Radcliffe ruined the women's marathon years ago. She just didn't get caught.

Good take there, I'm still reeling from shock that Ruth could run even faster lol!!!!!!

I can't imagine a 2:08 or 2:07 for the women seriously, it's too much space-time condensed into a finite earth!!!!!!!!

Stop sniffing your upper lip.

and she ran the time while going first 5k in 15:00mins. This is an absolute joke to be honest.

I also have a chemistry degree, and that's a bunch of nonsense. You think she got access to some miracle drug that upregulates anabolic pathways with NO androgenic effects? Maybe she also wrote a perpetual motion machine to the finish

First all, Ruth has not run in the 14s or 29s for the 5k and 10km. She has run 15:26 and 30:29.

Second of all, we all know a bunch of guys (from college) who did run 14:20 and 29:30 and NEVER in a million years sniffed a sub-2:10.

There are thousands American men who run in the 14s for 5km each year and like literally only 5 who can break 2:10. So no, those two numbers don't equate.

There's no reason to believe whatever drugs she's taking are more effective on women, since Cheptngetich's time today brings the women's marathon world record into line with the men's. It's just that women have gotten ahold of what men have been taking for some time now, which presumably takes some years to have its full effect (which we may not have seen yet).

I agree that the previous women's record was not "in line" with the men's. Given that in every event from the 100m up, the women are 9.5%-10.5% slower, the women's marathon record should have been about 2:12-2:13.

But sub-2:10 is not really in line with anything as far as the numbers go... it is out of this world.

Is it really that crazy that a former HM WR holder breaks the marathon WR?

it is if you take into account Kipchoge and his sub 2

It would be if you take into account Kelvin Kiptum had he run that marathon in Amsterdam this year