A local kid from my area was a Freshman at Florida this past year and was, I'm fairly sure, Khan's roommate. At first Khan is this big success story (I certainly bought in) with his 3:55y despite being a rather small guy who tends to run wide. Seemed strange that he could pull it off, but he did. Now he tests positive for EPO and it begins to make sense.
Local kid, who ran a county record 4:08.03y last June, does not run a single race at UF last year and in May announces that he is transferring to our local college (Wagner). Now it appears that he has quit the sport altogether. Can't begin to figure out what is going on but I'd love to find out.
look at him waving to the crowd and showing up his competition as he pulls away from the field. what a arrogant self-righteous jerk, knowing he's only winning because he's juicing. he should personally apologize to everyone in this race.
look at him waving to the crowd and showing up his competition as he pulls away from the field. what a arrogant self-righteous jerk, knowing he's only winning because he's juicing. he should personally apologize to everyone in this race.
look at him waving to the crowd and showing up his competition as he pulls away from the field. what a arrogant self-righteous jerk, knowing he's only winning because he's juicing. he should personally apologize to everyone in this race.
Significantly or insignificantly, consistent testing was done in the NCAA? We really have to wonder if we have a baseball type Balco situation on our hands.
Baseball was way more fun to watch before they started cracking down on PEDs.
This is all pretty depressing. One of the big assumptions in the last 3-4 years has been that superspikes must be the only reason for the explosion in performance levels at the NCAA level in particular (especially as wavelight isn't a thing yet in college) - well sure, they probably help highly ambitious college kids, notorious for wrecking themselves in workouts, a lot more than they help pros who have already signed deals and have the benefit of pro races with wavelight - but don't think that kids didn't realize that this era, with all these external performance enhancers available, wasn't also a perfect time to dope as these big drops in performance could be chalked up to a myriad of factors with doping "hopefully" being simply lost in translation.
Certainly feels like the NCAA is the Wild West. I actually feel better about Kenyans overall because to ever make an impact internationally they have to be hitting those out of competition testing benchmarks. That’s the case for Moroccans and Nigerians as well. There’s no money in testing so I expect everyone else can pretty much dope with impunity in the NCAA. And I’d expect many of these imports are pretty much long-shots to make it anyway, so why not dope?
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interesting take from Isaac Basten from Drake under the Stride Report Instagram post about Parzej's EPO testing. (wasn't able to link it) He states in the 5 years he's run in the NCAA he's only been tested once. with this flood of NIL money where international runners literally getting paid to run for NCAA schools - the NCAA really needs to step up testing. he also says Parzej should be banned for life from the NCAA and all of his times and records stripped.
Ran for a top D1 distance program (we were top 10 in XC every year) and graduated in 2017. During my time in the program my coach was able to effectively select who got tested with the same 4-5 guys always getting tested. None of our top 3 and maybe only 1-2 of our top 7 were tested outside of competition while I was there.
A local kid from my area was a Freshman at Florida this past year and was, I'm fairly sure, Khan's roommate. At first Khan is this big success story (I certainly bought in) with his 3:55y despite being a rather small guy who tends to run wide. Seemed strange that he could pull it off, but he did. Now he tests positive for EPO and it begins to make sense.
Local kid, who ran a county record 4:08.03y last June, does not run a single race at UF last year and in May announces that he is transferring to our local college (Wagner). Now it appears that he has quit the sport altogether. Can't begin to figure out what is going on but I'd love to find out.
To be honest, quitting the sport isn’t an abnormal thing to do. I’d imagine he got hurt / the student-athlete life style took a toll on him. as you mentioned, perazzo is from NY. Florida a far way from home so maybe homesickness was a factor (which could be why he transferred to a local school). tack on the new roster rules coming 2025 and how massive UFs roster is, that’s definitely unrelated to Khan.
Right? Now let’s test the top guys at Iowa State, Ok State, Arkansas, Texas Tech…just test the freaking Kenyan, Spanish, Turkish athletes who are always notorious for doping…they’re the ones taking the scholarships and top spots at NCAA’s now with their doping routines they’ve brought from home training camps.
Don’t believe it? This and Arkansas’s Maru are proof.
Don’t forget Michael Saruni.
Just going to note that the US's doping record is as bad as Turkey's or Spain's. Trying to pass this off as a problem of cheating foreigners is delusional. The NCAA needs proper OOC testing, but it won't because everyone knows the revenue sport athletes are juiced to f*ck because it's more or less accepted into hose sports. You don't want to be catching all those doped up football players and upsetting the donors now, do you?
look at him waving to the crowd and showing up his competition as he pulls away from the field. what a arrogant self-righteous jerk, knowing he's only winning because he's juicing. he should personally apologize to everyone in this race.
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