Belgian guy runs 1.45.05 indoor 800m

Tibo de Smet is a beast, smooth as butter

Nice race and perfectly set up by the pacemaker, Collins Kipruto looked good too.

Dude didn’t start running 800s till 2020, and here are his progressions:

Outdoor:

’20 - 1:49.01

’21 - 1:47.60

’22 - 1:44.89

Indoor:

’20 - 1:50.47

’22 - 1:46.80

’23 - 1:45.04, so far

1:45.04 makes him #24 all time indoors, and 20/23 guys ahead of him have run sub-1:44 outdoors (oddly enough, one of those 3 who haven’t is Elliot Giles, who’s #2 indoors at 1:43.63).

I looked at his WA profile, guy is notably good at running indoors. Check out his 400s

African born: doper since age 5

European born (and white): great talent

He is obviously a 400m runner who converted to the 800m as an adult.

He was a quite talented 400m runner (50 sec just turned 16 in 2015 and a steady progression since then).

No sudden jumps in annual performances so no indication of doping.

Lol. Riiiight. Unfortunately for you what is obvious history is obvious history. Even with the much more lax doping testing in Kenya, its 35 busts in one year....Belgium: 0. And some African countries dont even have testing established. Your reject attempts at muddling the water goes home devastated. Seethe and cope.

Does not strike you as odd how few white athletes (other than the evil Russians) get popped for PED?

For every East African who gets busted, a new European star emerges.