2:20 female Kenyan marathoner suspended for doping

The violations just keep coming. They show that nothing in Kenyan sport can be trusted to be clean. It also shows that doping doesn't have to be state-sponsored to be "systemic", i.e. throughout their sport.

Of course the ‘stars’ still enjoy protection.

At least she still has a man’s haircut, right?

Surely this is embarrassing for any Kenyan fans. Puts a real shade over any of their records or current athletes. Perhaps they’ll start holding the foreign agents or the people supplying the drugs accountable as well? I see no other options to stop these atrocities.

To the user that says talking about this isn’t good for the sport… what isn’t good for the sport is the massive amount of doping happening in Kenya.

I fully expect world marathon majors to continue go out of their way to invite runners like Kelvin Kiptum. For Kipchoge to break the world record at age 40 and for Faith to put 8 seconds in to the field in a mile. We can all just pretend and talk about how East Africans are genetically superior. Instead of our governing body and event organizers doing anything real about it.

I am not sure if it is going to be 'egg on the face' level, but who knows. In private discussions at a WADA lab with some of their analysts/researchers about the Bol tests, there is strong speculation about the SARS-PAGE subjective tests flagging false positives due to genetic EPO make up - note, not the level. Not sure how long this would take for some confirmation or otherwise.

disclaimer: Private/offsite (out of interest) discussions as a member of supplier support team of alternate instrumentation methods being worked on

Not a surprising bust. Her (ex?) husband was busted for EPO some years back - around the time she had inexplicable improvements.

Kenyans don't have false positives. Just false negatives.

Close association with dopers and crazy improvements. If only people knew what signs to look for.

There’s a lot of us who knew this day would come. If you understand human nature and incentives, you know that the sport is rife with doping. How couldn’t it be? Personally, for me, it was a short time after Yobes Ondieki that I knew that something wasn’t kosher. So this has been a long time coming.

Anyone trying to pretend this is just ‘c-level’ runners is deluded or fundamentally dishonest.

You must be talking to rekrunner.

Most of the problems there are in the second tier with athletes like Agnes who never ranked higher than 47th in the world. But clearly enough samples were taken to get her via the blood passport. It’s another step in the right direction.

Asbel Kiprop. Wilson Kipsang. Diana Kipyokei. Just off the top of my head. You are dreaming.

How many Kenyans are competing in professional athletics competitions this calendar year? Take a guess at a number.

I am really happy that those cheaters get caught more and more often.

Unfortunately the Kenyans doping mafia is still free and continues, as there are no legal actions planned in the future.

It is a mockery to the sport.

And you are obsessed with him.

1/3 of the male track team for the 2017 world championships suspended. 7 out of the fastest 11 Kenyan 800m runners in 2017 busted. 5 out of 11 of the male Kenyan World U20 champions in 2014,16,18 busted.

From a news article published today :

Kenya only established a national anti-doping agency in 2016, an eye opener considering it has been the dominant force in distance running for decades and has won the second-most medals across the board in the history of the worlds behind the United States.

Before this year, Kenya had committed $2.5 million a year to anti-doping, Clothier said, not nearly enough. There were only 38 athletes in Kenya’s national doping testing pool last year, a miniscule amount. There will be 300 this year, Clothier said.

Apart from the international track body and the AIU’s attempts to prop up its testing program, Kenya was “a completely uncontrolled environment, quite frankly,” Clothier said.

apnews.com

Kenya's crisis is unique and driven by poverty, track and field's anti-doping head tells the AP

Kenya is likely to haul in another good chunk of medals in distance races at the upcoming track and field world championships in Hungary.

Link:apnews.com/article/kenya-doping-track-...

Well for one, the second tier is a lot larger than the 1st, so one might expect to find more dopers there.

Second, calling a female 2:20 marathon runner second tier is quite elite. Only three Americans have ever run faster.

Third, jacksprat already gave you examples of a 3:26 runner, a WR holder, and a majors winner. There are plenty more of that caliber, not to mention that Kwemoi as well ran under 27 and 59 minutes, for example Jeptoo, Cherono, Kipserem, Kiptum, Kiproto, Chepchirchir, Wanjiru, Manangoi, Renju, Kitwara, Kisorio, Korio, ...