Not sure if anyone's been following along on twitter, but Sara Hall hasn't had a good week on the platform. Post Zane Robertson doping case she:
1. Posted a tweet stating that they need to criminalize doping in Kenya. After she received healthy backlash (just Kenya??? Zane is from NZ and made a choice!!) she deleted the tweet.
2. Then she wrote about how we need to criminalize doping everywhere.
3. Then she posted and deleted another tweet where she wrote that in her 25 years, she hasn't seen any doping and rest assured that most people are "doing it the right way". She also doubled down on her Kenya bashing, saying it happens more in Iten. For this she received a sound thrashing. Points were made like: Doping is rampant, what are you talking about. Why are you just blaming Iten, have you heard of Nike? and then finally:
Your progression is weird Sara. You've been running a lot your whole life. How is it that you are still PR'ing into your late 30s?
And now in this article, she stated that she is in Ethiopia for a final tune up in training. Ethiopia. Why Ethiopia? Why during March when her kids have school and whatnot? Why when she already lives at altitude in the US? What do we make of her comments and her current location now?
I'm not going to come out and say what I want to say, but I'll say this. There are a lot of complaining about the letsrun doping polls and what not. People say it's mean and cruel and whatever. But what are we supposed to do when athletes do stuff like this? Believe them blindly and be quiet? What's actually going on here? what compelled her to place so much blame on Kenya?
I hope Sara is clean. But I'm not going to sit around and pretend I don't have two eyes that see. I remember an interview with Molly Seidel (who is one of the few athletes I would be willing to bet is clean). All starry eyed in the interview, Seidel marveled over the intensity of training Hall could do and said something to the effect "I'm 28 now--I wonder what 10 more solid years of training will get me, and seeing Sara, it makes me excited to see how good I'll be in 10 years!" in the past, it would be common knowledge that 38 is well past your prime. I hope Molly is not being fooled.