I've been watching marathoning since the 70's, since I saw Frank Shorter lose to a doped runner in the 76 Olympics. As an old timer "67 year old", I treat Keptum like I did the Eastern Bloc runners of the 70's and 80's and the Chinese women of the 90's I am not impressed with him of his times. And it's not the shoes, it has nothing to do with shoes, or American marathoners would be running faster than 7,8 and 9 minutes slower than Africans. American marathoners where super shoes as well.
I want to know how long these drugs stay in your system, and how many times you need to take them for you to see benefits. These top people are only racing about twice per year, three races would be a lot. If the drugs only stay in your system a week or less it's easy to dodge the in-competition drug tests. How often are they being tested out of season? If it's only in your system five days after use, and you only need to take it 4-5 times to see benefits, then there's only about 20-25 days you might fail a test. If you're only tested once or twice randomly in out of competition test then there's only about a 10% chance you might get popped. And if your anti doping people are corrupt, you could get a heads up and avoid the test.
Depends on the drug and dose, obviously. Don't forget, can dodge the ooc test twice with ease.👊
Surprised no one questioning age here? Anyone noticed his hardened facial features, (receding) hairline? 23? Sure. Try 32. Which means he definitely has come out of no where to drop insane times.
Surprised no one questioning age here? Anyone noticed his hardened facial features, (receding) hairline? 23? Sure. Try 32. Which means he definitely has come out of no where to drop insane times.
If he were 32 why would he have only come on the scene in 2018 at age 27 forfeiting at least 5-6 years of earnings. The LetsRun source who says he's born Dec 1996 makes some sense as that would put him at age 21 when he started flashing promise, or his listed age of 18 when that was the case. There're pictures from that 2018 race and he looks plausibly 18-24, not 27 to me. Some guys have receding hairlines early.
The topic post is a interesting question to consider.
Doubtful Kiptum will ever have better racing conditions; doubtful 300km for a couple to few weeks prior is repeatable without heavy rain to soften the ground and limit pounding, doubtful Kiptum will improve on 57' half marathon fitness as he is unlikely to ever race on the track and he added about as much quality work into the scheduke ashe could handle.
This record might stand for years and yes it might end up being his career best. What Irealized watching the race is that with these shoes and conditions, a prime fitness Bekele was <57' and <2h
I've been watching marathoning since the 70's, since I saw Frank Shorter lose to a doped runner in the 76 Olympics. As an old timer "67 year old", I treat Keptum like I did the Eastern Bloc runners of the 70's and 80's and the Chinese women of the 90's I am not impressed with him of his times. And it's not the shoes, it has nothing to do with shoes, or American marathoners would be running faster than 7,8 and 9 minutes slower than Africans. American marathoners where super shoes as well.
I've been watching marathoning since the 70's, since I saw Frank Shorter lose to a doped runner in the 76 Olympics. As an old timer "67 year old", I treat Keptum like I did the Eastern Bloc runners of the 70's and 80's and the Chinese women of the 90's I am not impressed with him of his times. And it's not the shoes, it has nothing to do with shoes, or American marathoners would be running faster than 7,8 and 9 minutes slower than Africans. American marathoners where super shoes as well.
"Shoes" are an excuse for avoiding an unpalatable truth.
I've been watching marathoning since the 70's, since I saw Frank Shorter lose to a doped runner in the 76 Olympics. As an old timer "67 year old", I treat Keptum like I did the Eastern Bloc runners of the 70's and 80's and the Chinese women of the 90's I am not impressed with him of his times. And it's not the shoes, it has nothing to do with shoes, or American marathoners would be running faster than 7,8 and 9 minutes slower than Africans. American marathoners where super shoes as well.
You can clearly see that Kiptum doesnt answer most questions well, in fact he misunderstands many of them including the "pain" question.
I really love all these "Kiptums gotta be doping" threads. There is ZERO possibility of him being on drugs.
Hes 23, has had spectacular and CONSISTENT results in both full and half marathons since the start. Everyone who knew him early on said he was incredibly talented. He was running barefoot with top talent and keeping up with them in training runs. So according to you clowns, he started doping at 19/20 and kept at it and developed into this doped up from there on? What a joke.
The most obvious reason hes running faster than previous times by others before him (Kipchoge etc) is the shoes. He can train in them and remain fresh and do more miles. But this is overlooked and the usual crowd starts to push the doping angle.
Too bad the brojos have no respect from clean runners and allows this nonsense to continue so they get more clicks.
Ok! But what about his trainer? Do you think is as clean as you wish?
It impossible to imagine that anyone could run 2:01 clean, with so little background and looking so good at the end. So without the drugs and super shoes we are back to what, 2:04? Then it makes more sense. On the other hand, one has to pose, if he is clean with 2:01, doped he's 1:57? Really, can anyone accept that as viable?
It impossible to imagine that anyone could run 2:01 clean, with so little background and looking so good at the end. So without the drugs and super shoes we are back to what, 2:04? Then it makes more sense. On the other hand, one has to pose, if he is clean with 2:01, doped he's 1:57? Really, can anyone accept that as viable?
Most fans can. For them doping disappears as soon as discussion turns to any individual athlete.
And the moon is made of milk chocolate....how naive are you. Of course he is juiced up as was his coaches previous athlete. You don't suddenly rack up sub 60 half marathons and 2.02/03 half marathons with no proven track record of progression
