Not to mention he was in the World Championship team. And that the former world record holder Kipsang was also busted, the former half-marathon world record holder Kiptum was also busted, along with what must be approaching 200 Kenyan long-distance runners who have been busted over the last decade, and seven since July.
Double standards? If any non-African country had Kenya's doping record, virtually nobody would be taking any of their performances seriously now. But we're supposed to believe that the guy smashing his own PBs/WRs approaching 40 years old, nearly 20 years after he peaked on the track, is clean as a whistle?
The major double standard is that Russia was banned from competition back in 2016 and yet absolutely nothing was done about Kenya despite the doping positives continuing to pile up - and that's with a far from optimal anti-doping sytem - we are most likely only seeing the tip of the iceberg. Kenya needs to be banned from competition for at least 10 years and people should be banned from training there. This charade is ridiculous.
Investigate all you desire…and nothing would become of it. Aden literally had 120 syringes of preloaded epo and 3 different types of anabolics in his camp…observed by police to be depositing drug paraphernalia all over a city… yet NOTHING was done. A patsy was banned- that’s all. Aden’s assistant coach was sitting with Abdi nageeye, bashir abdi, and mr Paula Radcliffe at the recent world championships. Do you think someone like Kipchoge with Nike and Ineos backing is going to go down? Think again. The sport is filthy. Our own usatf hired a convicted drug cheat (Dennis Mitchell) to coach its own relay team, for goodness sakes. Gatlin was their chosen announcer on their broadcast!
Kipchoge is too big to fail and not even the AIU will pop him. All they can do is to pop athletes around him in an effort that he stops the freak show. As we saw in Berlin, that ain't happening...
Well there you go. Guilt by association. And no doubt it's retroactive, so now we know that people like Kip Keino, Henry Rono, and Paul Tergat were dopers, too.
The major double standard is that Russia was banned from competition back in 2016 and yet absolutely nothing was done about Kenya despite the doping positives continuing to pile up . . ..
Is it possible that certain athletes have been deemed "too big to fail," because of the money, attention and excitement they bring to a sport? Such that it's been determined that exposing them would cause "more harm than good" for the sport at large.
Are those at lower levels are deemed expendable, and used as examples to "show everyone how hard we're working to detect drug cheats"?
Would monetary kickbacks to key people keep everything in balance?