5679 wrote:
THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
Cheptegei is probably tested as much or more than those guys. What basis do you have to say he is not? He races for records on the roads and track (these require in-competition doping controls). He trains in a well-known training camp in Uganda with a high-profile group that is not hard to find. Nick Willis is probably not running fast enough to justify drug testing at this point. I don't think running 3:57 miles justifies out-of-competition testing.
Cheptegei and his management court publicity all the time. They just did a World Athletics feature with him. He publicizes his record attempts well in advance. He takes on high-profile races throughout each year.
Just to be sure, I agree with you.
The nearest WADA lab is in Nairobi. We know that corruption is endemic in that part of the world and that 'tea money' bribes have been the norm in Kenya for years. No reason to believe that it's different in a neighbouring country with similar levels of corruption. Ask yourself why Uganda has relatively suddenly emerged as a powerhouse just when testing was tightened up in Kenya. Of course his management hypes him up and publicizes his races. Frederico Rosa is there to make money out of him.
It's possible I guess he's not doping, but when Frederico Rosa, a man chased out of Kenya over doping allegations, unearths a Ugandan superstar when that country had no real history of distance success, a superstar capable of breaking the most infamous of the full throttle EPO era records, then you ought to be a tad sceptical. To say he's no more suspicious than Nick Willis is ridiculous.