Kenyan press: Kenya teen who had never run a 1500 before, runs 3:38 1500. That's what we call talent.

Exciting how some random teenager came out of the blue to

Place second in his first 1500 ever. 3:38? That's really incredible.

Obviously his coach has figured out the secret to running fast times.

Yeah I find it interesting how the title of the article is “Obey your coach, always.” Makes me wonder if the message to always obey your coach means to take whatever pills or injections he gives you.

Probably just doing double thresholds.

Haters will never lack envy. They'll never lack negative criticism. They'll never lack anything meaningful to say. Not every athlete who wins is dirty!

Otherwise, carry on with your dark heart Mr. Clean. The winners are unfazed with your unsubstantiated doping allegations....

Nothing that comes out of Kenya today can be taken at face value.

Just impossible for a european boy.

Nothing that comes ou of your mouth/fingers can be taken at face value.

Been known to happen.

The doping mafia in Kenya found new test objects and gets away with it, as there is not even any legal action planned 'in the system'.

Kenya should actually be banned from under 20 competitions because they've had a history of blatant age fraud. Cheating young boys and girls/men/women.

I get a rush every time I read their bitter little rants. Oh sweet nectar!

Busy bodies 😂😂😂😂😂

You haven't followed the stream of doping violations that have come out of Kenya.

That's obviously not true. Why would he be representing Kenya at the Commonwealth Youth games if it's his first time ever stepping on a track?

Being generous, maybe he had run a lot of good 800s or 5000s and they thought to try him in a down distance.

Almost as fast as the Manangois now they are off the juice.

A quick bit of digging shows that he was the silver medalist at the African Youth T&F Championships in the 3000m in May.

He also presumably ran in the African Youth T&F Trials in April. He would also have raced in the Youth Commonwealth Trials on July 7th. I can't find results for either of these.

They're running EPO game show over there. Wheel of Fortune.

Not a huge surprise and it's not unprecedented either. I remember Alex Kipchirchir burst onto the scene at 18 years of age when he ran 1:45.5 @ Nairobi with not much running background. Then he backed that up running 3:30 1500m @ 20 years of age.

Father O’Connell called him the greatest talent he'd seen in his lifetime (and that's saying a lot given Komen had run 12:56 5k just a few years after he had started running formally).

His career lasted 4 years and he disappeared.

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