Either he gets busted in the next 12 months or he disappears with 'injuries' after Berlin having already earned enough to feed his Kenyan village for life.
a curiosity i would like to ask you guys: does this assumption of yours apply only to Kiptum or also to your favourites such as Nuguse, Katir, Ingebrigtsen, Cheptegei, Kipchoge or whoever else they are?
Either he gets busted in the next 12 months or he disappears with 'injuries' after Berlin having already earned enough to feed his Kenyan village for life.
Is he running Berlin? He is confirmed for Chicago.
So much fear. I hope nobody actually believed that Kipchoge was doing impossible things and would remain on a separate plateau forever.
When the roads became more prominent naturally you're going to have younger stars making them a priority.
Kipchoge will still hold the senior tour records
No one reasonably informed believes WR holders are clean, but at least Kipchoge has 20 years of performances on all surfaces and distances, versus a guy that runs two marathons under 202 "from out of no where."
But I do think they are on the same road, as you put it.
So much fear. I hope nobody actually believed that Kipchoge was doing impossible things and would remain on a separate plateau forever.
When the roads became more prominent naturally you're going to have younger stars making them a priority.
Kipchoge will still hold the senior tour records
No one reasonably informed believes WR holders are clean, but at least Kipchoge has 20 years of performances on all surfaces and distances, versus a guy that runs two marathons under 202 "from out of no where."
But I do think they are on the same road, as you put it.
Why the hell should an athlete have necessarily a previous renomed track career? Can anyone go straight to marathon and show directly to be a champion of that distance? Chebet came out from nowhere too, no track experience and in the last 4 years won 4 Major marathons. Why nobody talks about him but everybody here is advancing suspects on Kiptum actually?
hes not marketable enough to be protected, look at what happened to wilson kipsang
I seriously disbelieve the idea that the most marketable athletes are "protected" these days. They may have been back in the day, but there are too many people involved in anti-doping to have such a vast cover-up. The top athletes get tested routinely, so what do you think happens to those tests? Are they thrown out? Sabotaged? Are the athletes warned days before the tests? Any of these actions would take coordination between a sizable, rotating group of people, risking whistleblower exposure. And if by chance one day the assigned tester wasn't in on it, turns out the athlete gets popped anyway.
Plus, the idea that certain athletes are too marketable to test positive also strains my belief because that protected group just keeps being shrunk whenever someone does get caught. Why wasn't Asbel Kiprop protected? Tyson Gay? Shelby Houlihan? Heck, Thiago Braz was just popped, the latest of many Olympic medalists who have been caught. Is it just Bolt and Kipchoge who are protected? Even if so, why doesn't any of that protection extend to their training groups?
None of this is to say that the sport is clean; it is very difficult to catch dopers who are trying not to be caught, and organizations like USADA have not shown themselves up to the task.
Haters can go to hell. LetsRun should be ashamed of itself for allowing threads such as these.
Kelvin will never be busted because he's no more likely to be cheating than any Australian, American, or Brit.
You sad people will have to get used to him dominating for the next decade. For the record, I think he will break 2 hours this year and end his career in the 1:50 - 1:55 range.
I do belive both the men's and women's marathon world records are soft compared to track. I believe that Faith can move up to the marathon and within the next five years become the first woman to break 2 hours.
Haters can go to hell. LetsRun should be ashamed of itself for allowing threads such as these.
Kelvin will never be busted because he's no more likely to be cheating than any Australian, American, or Brit.
You sad people will have to get used to him dominating for the next decade. For the record, I think he will break 2 hours this year and end his career in the 1:50 - 1:55 range.
I do belive both the men's and women's marathon world records are soft compared to track. I believe that Faith can move up to the marathon and within the next five years become the first woman to break 2 hours.
The one thing you left out is that all this is achievable only with drugs - massive amounts of them.