Rojo's question to Ruth Chepngetich being widely reported on news sites

I agree it is a "predictable" question, but if you are a lawyer, you still have to ask the defendant, "did you or did you not commit the crime you were accused of?" Of course the defendant is going to deny it, but how they deny it can be very, very revealing to the jury.

The problem in this scenario is that Ruth C. doesn't have the English skills and Chicago organizers might not have had the Swahili translators on site to make a real discussion possible.

Nonetheless, the question needs to be asked so we can see how the athlete, coaches, managers, agents, and sponsors respond.

Ruth is NOT in the position of a defendant, as she has NOT been arrested, much less charged with a crime. Since you say the question “needs to be asked,” are you left inconsolable when Jakob runs 7:54 and 7:17 and he is not asked if he is doping? Jakob is not asked because either it has been asked or answered before or the journalists want to maintain access, because Jakob is “one of us,” meaning a white male and therefore more deserving of respect in the eyes of the establishment. Let us be real here.

Jakob does not come from a country with 150 distance runners currently suspended.

Jakob is not a woman running as fast as the best Americans.

Anti-doping in Norway is not bankrupt with no tests performed since the start of August.

Jakob ran 3 seconds faster with super shoes, wave lights, a mondo track than a WR set nearly 30 years ago. (that's around 0.4 second a lap faster than Komen, yet you think the likes of him and El G running 1 second faster a lap than Coe and Cram just 15 years before with no new tracks, shoes, or training methods were clean).

What parts of the above do you not understand?

Jakob is more of an outlier than Ruth. White runners have not shown they can run as fast as East Africans, except for Jakob. He is the only one. But you racists, and you know you are one, attribute it to his and his father’s advantage in intelligence and training methods. Tell me who is the second fastest white runner at 3000m?

We all understand you making excuses for the white guy, Coevett.

For those who think it was a good question, I'm wondering what do they consider would be a good answer?

What can she possibly say that won't sound like what every innocent and guilty athlete alike would say, or has already said?

At its core, the question isn't about Chepngetich, but about what a selected group of fans are prepared to believe and disbelieve, selected on the basis of doubting a performance can be clean, and who implicitly believe (on what basis?) that only doping can produce the best performances?

What can she say to change the minds of a group of people who stopped listening to what athletes say?

For the athlete who just achieved what every athlete strives to achieve with a lifetime of training, it's a lose-lose question.

Saying "I don't know" and "people will talk" seems like a good response.

All that means is he's been doping since he was a teenager,which is what many of us believe.17 year olds cant run 3.31 naturally.There is nothing normal about that.

Wow! First time I have ever agreed with any of your arguments. Wonders truly never cease.

When the burrito eating athlete was banned, the questionner and a few others incessantly went out of their way to claim the athlete was innocent, not once did they ask the same type of questions as they asked this Kenyan runner. One can only wonder why.

+1

For those who think world record holders are (may be) clean, ask yourselves:

a) What time could they run if doped? E.g., Ruth a 2:05-2:07? Paula back then a 2:11-2:13?

b) Why did no doper - however super-talented and hard-trained - come close to those times?

What about when they're paced by your brother?

and Shelby. and jessica hull and Ryan Hall, who is clearly currently on TRT, which is legal for him to do, but we can't talk about it

Exactly. It's tiresome because it accomplishes nothing, aside from allowing Rojo to burnish his credentials as a crusading amateur journalist and anti-doping vigilante.

It's neither courageous nor enlightening to ask a question when everyone already knows what the response will be.

Given the habit of the doping apologist shills here to post in the same thread under different names with low content spam comments, the Brojos should really consider making doping threads, or at least important ones like this, registered users only.

Some of us think that a PED may not even exist for the marathon, that would make these clean elite runners faster. The questions already presume too much.

There is no reason to think they would run their best marathon any faster doped. They might even run slower due to adverse side effects, or less efficient training from a wrong focus.

I'm asking myself, who is the fastest known doper in the women's marathon? Unless I'm missing someone, isn't it Shobukhova at 2:18:20 and Jeptoo at 2:18:57?

I'm asking myself why haven't any known dopers run faster than what Paula ran in 2002, when she ran 2:17:18 in Chicago?

Why do some think doping is a good explanation for these faster times, let alone the only one?

Baby steps.

Are you for real? What a stupid, clueless remark. There are so many reasons to think so, note for example

1) The science/scientists, on record with e.g. up to 3% via blood doping, up to 1 minute over 10k.

2) The coaches, e.g. Canova and Salazar both estimating a 2 minute gain in the marathon.

3) The athletes. E.g. Flanagan (also a coach now) claiming that Jeptoo's success in Boston was due to doping.

4) The many many successful dopers in the marathon, from Olympic Champ Sumgong to countless majors winners like Jeptoo, Cherono, Wanjiru,... to 2:02 runner Ekiru.

5) The fact that Radcliffe's pre-ABP WR of 2:15 wasn't even approached by anyone for over 16 years (until supershoes).

6) Radcliffe's super blood history (in competition hgb jumps of over 20% concurring with ret-% decreases of 20%, indicative of the typical 1 L blood transfusions).

7) Countless insiders like rojo and Burfoot.

And there are several more examples, see

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=13071597