Inventory: 2014 🥇 Commonwealth Games (defeats season form girl Hellen Obiri) 2015 🥈 World Championships (behind Genzebe Dibaba but ahead of more fancied Sifan Hassan) 2016 🥇 Olympic Games (beating overwhelming favourite Genzebe Dibaba) 2017 🥇 World Championships (with the Caster Semenya dynamic in the race dusting everyone including LR darlings Laura Muir and Sifan Hasan) 2019 🥈 World Championships (behind Sifan Hasan less than a year after giving birth) 2021 🥇 Olympic Games (in her own class. The rest of the field were competing for the minor medals, really) 2022 🥇 World Championships (after a frightening first lap from Gudaf Tsegay) 2023 3:49.11 World Record at the Diamond League in Florence, Italy obliterating Genzebe Dibaba's daunting time. FAITH IS A LEGEND! The greatest 1500m runner in history.
We forgot to add:
2023: 14:05.20 World Record in the 5000m, an event she rarely runs.
How many other of their world record-holders, championship and Olympic medallists would you have said that of before they were busted?
How many of them were at the top for 13 years and were later busted?
So athletes are never busted in their 30's? But you don't have to wait for that to know she's as drugged as Kratochvilova or Koch, or any former E Bloc (or Ethiopian or Chinese) world record-holder. They weren't caught but there's no doubt they were dopers. Kenyans have put themselves in the same category as being amongst the biggest bunch of cheats on the planet, even though only a fraction are caught.
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She is young, probably only 21 or 22, I know she was junior only 4 or 5 years ago. She won WJR XC at age 16, which is the youngest winner ever. With her speed and strength, I would love to see her race Ayana in a 5K or 10K. Btw, when I first saw her as a junior, she looked like a legit teenager. As good as she is, I don't think she will ever get close to GD's 1500 WR.
Hey how's this prediction panning out thus far? lol
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