Where is Koko?

The Gorilla?

There's a few athletes who have disappeared after joining Puma. Patrick Tiernan seldom races now since switching to the roads and has ended up on Australia world champs marathon team. I feel Pat is wasting his talent.

Koko didn't look healthy nor fit in her last few track races so I hope she's focusing on getting her body right currently. I also really hope someone is getting her to eat more and eat properly.

I feel like during her time at Nike Oregon Project, Salazar & his staff probably encouraged Koko's excessive leanness & helped her mask the consequences with their famous 'grey area' methods. Ever since the disbandment of NOP & Koko's peak at 2019 World Champs, I feel like it's been a steady decline for her health & performances ever since.

I feel like during her time at Nike Oregon Project, Salazar & his staff probably encouraged Koko's excessive leanness & helped her mask the consequences with their famous 'grey area' methods. Ever since the disbandment of NOP & Koko's peak at 2019 World Champs, I feel like it's been a steady decline for her health & performances ever since.

I feel like during her time at Nike Oregon Project, Salazar & his staff probably encouraged Koko's excessive leanness & helped her mask the consequences with their famous 'grey area' methods. Ever since the disbandment of NOP & Koko's peak at 2019 World Champs, I feel like it's been a steady decline for her health & performances ever since.

Koko has also been having trouble breaking away from the situation with the vapor prospecting she participated in as a sales rep. The concern apparently is currently owing her greater than 175,000 euros for her personal appearances on their behalf. This situation's stress has unfavorable results for her well being.

I saw Koko in a grocerystore the day before Bauhausgalan in Stockholm (where she ran a very bad 5000m according to her premisses) . I'm not exaggerating when I say this. She was in that store more than 30min, going back and forth with an anxiety over what she was going to buy. It ended with: Dried apples, rice cakes and carbonated water....

She is dangerously underweight. Hope she's getting professional help, otherwise this will not end good, neither for her running career and ESPECIALLY not in the long term with Osteoporosis and multiple vitamins-and mineral deficiencies.

I feel like you made this up... If you didn't, this is really weird behavior.

Any source for this?

Not sure if this is an option for her still?

https://www.trueathletesclassics.de/

It's at her local team

UAC ruined her by not helping her. Now she's broken. UAC should be getting torn apart on these boards for all of their failures this year.

Looks like she is in St. Moritz (just as everyone else)

And this Leverkusen event is still a possibilty. 800 m and 1500 m are offered for late qualification standards options.

Is she American?

What I don't understand is why every sponsor places her with a US based group. I can understand NOP somewhat due to AlSal's success and other international athletes but why continue with UAC and then Puma puts her with the Craig group. Other international athletes did not stay with UAC. Is this Koko wanting a US based team? Are there no other training groups in Germany that are high quality or in Europe that will accept her as a member?

everybody is crapping on UAC, but I have read comments on here before where people claiming to be insiders said they bent over backwards trying to help her.

as they say, You can lead a horse to water...

My question was why US based training groups only, never Europe given she is German. My intent was not to crap on UAC or any other group. But maybe that is the answer - no Euro group wants to deal with her supposed issues....

I guess in Europe there is no women group at her level training which she could join to train together. The trainings group in Europe are mostly based around your local athletics club - there is a lack of mixed groups from different countries.