Lilian Kasait Rengeruk becomes the eighth Kenyan athlete in three months to be banned for doping offences after admitting to using a prohibited substance.
Source: le journal l’équipe du vendredi 23 septembre 2022, + Ghost1 edit.
Kenyan athlete Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, 12th in the 5000 meters final at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics, on Wednesday became the eighth representative of her country since July to be found guilty of doping by the Integrity Unit of athletics (UIA). The 25-year-old, former world champion in the under-18 3,000 meters, tested positive for letrozole in January. His ten-month suspension runs until February 2023.
Faced with the wave of positive tests, the Kenya Athletics Federation has taken a series of measures to combat this problem, notably announcing in July a relaunch of its intelligence and investigation unit "with the aim of dismantling cartels and to take the war against doping to a new level. »
Among the seven other athletes caught in the act of doping is Lawrence Cherono, 34, winner in 2019 of the Boston and Chicago marathons and fourth at the Olympic Games last year. Testing positive for trimetazidine during an out-of-competition test on May 23, he was suspended before the last World Championships.
Ghost1 comment: this is all very tragic because these top athletes did not need to take these products to reach the highest level which offered, at best, marginal gains. If people differ in opinion from this, please show evidence that those two products (letrozole and trimetazidine) offer substantial gains in performance. (Of course I’m not condoning what they did but let’s keep things in perspective). Desperation in Kenya leads many athletes to cross the line, and sometimes it is not the athletes themselves who initiate the infraction, but their assistants and coaches. This young lady (Regeruk) may be a case in point because I doubt very much that she fully knew the ramifications of the actions she took which led to her bust.
By the way, for Kenyans reading this, which group, that is to say “ethnic group” does she belong to because the name « Rengeruk » does not sound anything like a Kalenjin name (The vast majority of runners come from this group of people) or even Kikuyu? Thank you.
Difficult to know whether she voluntarily ingested nandrolone. However, the issue is that the level of nandrolone was so high and in addition both Shelby and Schumacher not knowing what nandrolone was seems a little bit weird. One would think the athlete and coach would be well up on all the news and knowledge about the sport including previous drug bans, when nandrolone would have been mentioned. This is a very strange case and it is not clear cut. She’s thinking of coming back to BTC but I think it would be difficult for her to get back to her previous level, even though not impossible. The Canadian Bues - Stafford was simply playing safe as is the case for most people when friendship goes out the window in order to protect number one.
It's tragic that she cheated another athlete out of the Olympic final, out of the Kenyan Olympic team, and that she's going to be back running again next year. The idea that these Kenyans are taking these 'minor' peds, but not EPO is quite ridiculous. All these busts show is that we are still a long way from effectively detecting EPO abuse.
So what you are suggesting, is that taking “minor” performance enhancing drugs, like the aforementioned ones, masks or hides EPO use? You may be correct but do you have any evidence about this? Thank you.
Source: le journal l’équipe du vendredi 23 septembre 2022, + Ghost1 edit.
Kenyan athlete Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, 12th in the 5000 meters final at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics, on Wednesday became the eighth representative of her country since July to be found guilty of doping by the Integrity Unit of athletics (UIA). The 25-year-old, former world champion in the under-18 3,000 meters, tested positive for letrozole in January. His ten-month suspension runs until February 2023.
Faced with the wave of positive tests, the Kenya Athletics Federation has taken a series of measures to combat this problem, notably announcing in July a relaunch of its intelligence and investigation unit "with the aim of dismantling cartels and to take the war against doping to a new level. »
Among the seven other athletes caught in the act of doping is Lawrence Cherono, 34, winner in 2019 of the Boston and Chicago marathons and fourth at the Olympic Games last year. Testing positive for trimetazidine during an out-of-competition test on May 23, he was suspended before the last World Championships.
Ghost1 comment: this is all very tragic because these top athletes did not need to take these products to reach the highest level which offered, at best, marginal gains. If people differ in opinion from this, please show evidence that those two products (letrozole and trimetazidine) offer substantial gains in performance. (Of course I’m not condoning what they did but let’s keep things in perspective). Desperation in Kenya leads many athletes to cross the line, and sometimes it is not the athletes themselves who initiate the infraction, but their assistants and coaches. This young lady (Regeruk) may be a case in point because I doubt very much that she fully knew the ramifications of the actions she took which led to her bust.
Letrozole is a popular among body builders. It is a way to boost testosterone so it would logically have potential to be performance enhancing.
Trimetazidine is speculated to increase blood flow to the heart. If so potentially performance enhancing.
Source: le journal l’équipe du vendredi 23 septembre 2022, + Ghost1 edit.
Kenyan athlete Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, 12th in the 5000 meters final at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics, on Wednesday became the eighth representative of her country since July to be found guilty of doping by the Integrity Unit of athletics (UIA). The 25-year-old, former world champion in the under-18 3,000 meters, tested positive for letrozole in January. His ten-month suspension runs until February 2023.
Faced with the wave of positive tests, the Kenya Athletics Federation has taken a series of measures to combat this problem, notably announcing in July a relaunch of its intelligence and investigation unit "with the aim of dismantling cartels and to take the war against doping to a new level. »
Among the seven other athletes caught in the act of doping is Lawrence Cherono, 34, winner in 2019 of the Boston and Chicago marathons and fourth at the Olympic Games last year. Testing positive for trimetazidine during an out-of-competition test on May 23, he was suspended before the last World Championships.
Ghost1 comment: this is all very tragic because these top athletes did not need to take these products to reach the highest level which offered, at best, marginal gains. If people differ in opinion from this, please show evidence that those two products (letrozole and trimetazidine) offer substantial gains in performance. (Of course I’m not condoning what they did but let’s keep things in perspective). Desperation in Kenya leads many athletes to cross the line, and sometimes it is not the athletes themselves who initiate the infraction, but their assistants and coaches. This young lady (Regeruk) may be a case in point because I doubt very much that she fully knew the ramifications of the actions she took which led to her bust.
Letrozole is a popular among body builders. It is a way to boost testosterone so it would logically have potential to be performance enhancing.
Trimetazidine is speculated to increase blood flow to the heart. If so potentially performance enhancing.
Rengeruk was given a very light sentence and she will be back in action in February 2023, just around the corner, so presumably the “expert” authorities do not think that letrozole offers substantial benefits to athletes, or perhaps I’m thinking backwards?
Why only a 10 month suspension? Also 8th Kenyan athletes busted in the last 3 months, not sure whether to feel happy or sad. Happy that dopers are out of this sport, but sad that it is this prevalent.
8th Kenyan in 3 months lol. How soon until El Kenaino is here deflecting Kenyas doping problem or Renato comes in talking about how doping doesn’t benefit East Africans.
A light penalty because she admitted it immediately. Too light a penalty. The 8th Kenyan busted since July. I am glad to see that the federation is taking steps, though they are surely nowhere near enough. There is too much incentive here and too much competition to make international teams and events. Rengeruk was good. 8:28/14:30 and had a number of top performances, won World U18, 3rd at Senior World XC, won a Diamond League race in 2018, 5th at World Champs, won All African Games, won the Kenyan trials.
Letrozole is a popular among body builders. It is a way to boost testosterone so it would logically have potential to be performance enhancing.
Trimetazidine is speculated to increase blood flow to the heart. If so potentially performance enhancing.
Rengeruk was given a very light sentence and she will be back in action in February 2023, just around the corner, so presumably the “expert” authorities do not think that letrozole offers substantial benefits to athletes, or perhaps I’m thinking backwards?
The light probably reflects cooperation or some mitigating circumstances rather than the performance enhancement potential.