Ruth Chepngetich just ruined the sport of marathon

Maybe not. The current Olympic Champion recently defeated the previous world record holder at the Olympics in an actual race without pacers. I would back her to defeat Ruth also under similar conditions.

Finally, someone sensible and balanced. I sometimes wonder how a country can possibly elect a narcissistic, hateful megalomaniac, and then I read the comments on here. I realise I should just not read them. Ciao.

She wasn't even deemed good enough to be among Kenya's best four women's marathoners in August in Paris, and now this in October.

I could be wrong but I don't think Ruth is a drug cheat. Many of you weren't born but about 40 years ago a scientific study was done saying by 2050 women would be outrunning men over distances longer than the marathon (due to lighter body weight, higher body water composition). I thought the study was bizarre at best but the women seems landing it some creditability by rapidly narrowing the gap between them and men especially in the marathon.

Yup..another WADA "technical" disruption.

Averaging sub 5 minute miles for a marathon is unreal. Something is up, reminds me of when the road 10k record women's record was set. One of the girls already popped like last week.

One thing that makes things a little more believable is these women train with 2:05 men marathon so they are pulled along every workout - plus the shoes, altitude, and I imagine some PEDs.

I’ve had posts deleted for pointing this out before, but whenever I see an athlete is represented by Rosa and Associates I can not help but have doubts. Their athletes disproportionately often seem to be the ones that get popped!

You should have to be faster than the women’s WR to qualify for the trials.

Scoring tables:

Kiptum’s 2:00:35 = 1322 pts

Chepengetich’s 2:09:56 = 1339 pts

Women’s WR now stronger by ~ 1.3%

Her performance reminds me of the Movie Office Space when they want to skim pennies off the dollar and wake up to the noticeable nearly half million missing from the company that they stole. Do you think her garbage trash agent said just barely break the WR so we can cash in, and in the middle of the race she decided it won't be too obvious that I'm going to get caught if I just trash the 2:10 barrier and finish in the men's money podium in the process.

That's right. Chepngetich is slightly ahead of Kiptum if we assume women are 10% slower than men. But Kiptum clearly could have run faster given his negative splits. If we assume that he could run a full minute faster, AND put women only 9% or even slightly less ahead of men at the marathon (because they're better relative to men the further the distance), then Chepngetich's time today would be "in line" with men's times. As things are, though, it's true that Chepngetich's time today is slightly ahead of past men's times. How long will that last?

I assume that if Kiptum had lived, he would have run sub-2 in Rotterdam this past April.

Lol. EPO can’t explain it. Give me a break.

What she's on? What she's on? She's on the hilly roads of Kenya, working her ass off.

I don't follow ball sports -- do forums for the big $$ mainstream sports have every other post dominating by drug cheat accusations? Do people at a UK football match shout, "drug cheat!"? I imagine if they did they'd be scraping themselves off the parking lot pavement.

If LR had a bot that automatically transferred every unsubstantiated drug cheat accusation to the "garbage" side of the site, it would be better for everyone.

A woman broke 2:10 in the marathon. And you act like it's the end of the world? I'm sure there are plenty of women who can run faster than you at 1500 meters as well, but it's not the end of the world when they do that? Seems like this criticism is rooted in racism because I does not think the reactions would be the same if a well-liked Caucasian female had run the same time.

What you're really hurt about is the fact that you put your ego and esteem on the line through American male marathoners by proxy and so you feel like you got crushed as a result of your favorite American male marathoners getting crushed by her.

Untether yourself from the fanboyism and start looking at each individuals individually.

What we see here is no different than in the NFL fanbase. You cry foul when your "Team" or favorite runner gets showed up by an underdog.

I thought the last two women's records were too much. This sport is a fing joke now.

Guess who isn't complaining about her time? Her fellow countrymen and other African men. Why? Because compared to them she is where she should be. It is a different bar to be met. None of America's male marathoners would even make the Kenyan men's Olympic team. By Kenya's standards, the bar for marathoning in America is low. The rest of the world isn't gonna press the brakes on forward progress to give you Americans chance to play catch up.

Just to throw an idea in;

What about splitting the prize money equally between domestic and world athletes. This makes for more of a race between Americans in Chicago and Brits in London etc...

Right now the Kenyans, whether doping or not, are suspicious enough to be ruining the sport. So I'd be all in favour of levelling up the prizes.

Anyone else? I'm getting fed up of watching random Kenyans/Ethiopians tear a race and then get busted a few years later...

I bet 1000 dollars she is doped to the gills

Its not fun