Just ban them now.
Meanwhile, the AIU revealed that 80 Kenyan athletes are currently serving doping suspensions.
Just ban them now.
Meanwhile, the AIU revealed that 80 Kenyan athletes are currently serving doping suspensions.
Turns out that the guy in question - the CEO of the Kenyan athletics federation Isaac Mwangi - has already previously been suspended over corruption.
Thats also why Testing is a bit pointless. Any worker in the federation or testing labs in those countries can be easily bribed. In europe or the USA its much too expensive for relatively poor athletes
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There's a difference between being tested by Kenyan anti-doping authorities and being tested by WADA/AIU (or whichever body does the testing) or in competition.
Many are busted in competition or by WADA/AIU.
So it's not quite 'meaningless'. If it were meaningless, Kenyans wouldn't be getting caught, yet they are and in huge numbers.
Apparently CEO was also doping so he could run the organization with more running economy.
Thank you for sharing this information. It’s an old article but it validates why I’ve been skeptical about Kipchoge, Kipyegon, and the rest.
What is wrong with you? You've resurrected an eight year old story. You linked to a Yahoo/Reuters article dated Feb. 11, 2016, and then comically found that he was "previously suspended" by pointing to a Guardian article dated 11 days later, Feb. 22, 2016. It's not "previously", but the very same accusation which led to a provisional suspension two weeks later. Eventually Mr. Mwangi served a 2 1/2-year suspension, and was finally heard and acquitted by the IAAF Ethics Board finding that extortion was not sufficiently established by the prosecution.
For context, Feb. 2016 was just at the end of the WADA IC investigation, leading to many recommendations and changes, including the creation of the AIU, which started aggressively testing Kenya.
Not sure what you have against increased testing, but it seems to me, despite its limitations, more testing and more busts are part of the solution, and the consequences of the solution, and not the problem. Other important parts are education of anti-doping obligations to athletes, doctors, and pharmacists, and identifying and banning coaches/managers/agents/doctors/pharmacists trying to exploit Kenyan athletes.
So there is no more bribery?
You really brought in an article from 100 months ago and called me “thoughtless.” Good one, sport.
THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
You really brought in an article from 100 months ago and called me “thoughtless.” Good one, sport.
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THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
You really brought in an article from 100 months ago and called me “thoughtless.” Good one, sport.
Pathetic, isn't it?
THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
You really brought in an article from 100 months ago and called me “thoughtless.” Good one, sport.
I would expect nothing less.
What fascinates me is Kipchoge finishing his sub 2 marathon and immediately touting clean sport as he gets interviewed. Truly disturbing.
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There's a difference between being tested by Kenyan anti-doping authorities and being tested by WADA/AIU (or whichever body does the testing) or in competition.
Many are busted in competition or by WADA/AIU.
So it's not quite 'meaningless'. If it were meaningless, Kenyans wouldn't be getting caught, yet they are and in huge numbers.
Yes. That's part of the problem, and still is: literally all the big names were caught by the AIU or in competition, not by ADAK. After all these years, that simply cannot be coincidence.
Here you can see that ADAK does test the starts OOC (pre Eugene, 81 times versus AIU's 174 times), so it's not like AIU has taken over the top guns.