He’ll get a medal in Paris and in a few year’s time his medal will need to be reallocated. Same story over and over again from these North Africans.
I was wondering if he was suspicious given the history of Moroccan and Algerian runners. The thing that is weird is that literally no one had ever heard of him, and he literally did not run in any races, before 2021. Then he appears that year at 22 years old he appears on the scene in Algeria and runs sub-1:45, but got covid at the Olympics. He has been very steady with small subtle improvements since then. The rate at which he has improved raises no red flags; however, appearing out of literally nowhere at 22 years old and also the gear shift that he displays at the end of the 800 make me suspicious as hell.
He’ll get a medal in Paris and in a few year’s time his medal will need to be reallocated. Same story over and over again from these North Africans.
I was wondering if he was suspicious given the history of Moroccan and Algerian runners. The thing that is weird is that literally no one had ever heard of him, and he literally did not run in any races, before 2021. Then he appears that year at 22 years old he appears on the scene in Algeria and runs sub-1:45, but got covid at the Olympics. He has been very steady with small subtle improvements since then. The rate at which he has improved raises no red flags; however, appearing out of literally nowhere at 22 years old and also the gear shift that he displays at the end of the 800 make me suspicious as hell.
He is 100% an EPO guy.
100%. That last 100m in Ostrava was video game stuff.
It’s gonna shock you, but there have been 4 athletes who averaged 12.7x for the entire 800m race. And the most recent of the 4 ran his world record 12 years ago. So maybe Sedjati is just a historically pretty good 800m runner. If your baseline for a shocking 800m race is beating Bryce Hoppel when he throws up a bit of a stinker*
*in LA he closed in 26.2 to run 1:43.6, today more like 27 to run 1:44.2
To be clear don’t know if he’s doping but 2018 Korir and 2019 Brazier were more impressive.
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Korirs 2018 London to run 1:42.0 was closed harder than this. Murphy’s 2021 Olympic Trials he blasted the last lap more impressively. You could go on and on.
It’s gonna shock you, but there have been 4 athletes who averaged 12.7x for the entire 800m race. And the most recent of the 4 ran his world record 12 years ago. So maybe Sedjati is just a historically pretty good 800m runner. If your baseline for a shocking 800m race is beating Bryce Hoppel when he throws up a bit of a stinker*
*in LA he closed in 26.2 to run 1:43.6, today more like 27 to run 1:44.2
To be clear don’t know if he’s doping but 2018 Korir and 2019 Brazier were more impressive.
At this point, when Thoughtsleader continuously defends an obvious doper, you know that the obvious doper will be busted soon. If it's a whereabouts failure, Thoughtsleader will continue to defend him as he has with Manangoi and Katir.
It’s gonna shock you, but there have been 4 athletes who averaged 12.7x for the entire 800m race. And the most recent of the 4 ran his world record 12 years ago. So maybe Sedjati is just a historically pretty good 800m runner. If your baseline for a shocking 800m race is beating Bryce Hoppel when he throws up a bit of a stinker*
*in LA he closed in 26.2 to run 1:43.6, today more like 27 to run 1:44.2
To be clear don’t know if he’s doping but 2018 Korir and 2019 Brazier were more impressive.
At this point, when Thoughtsleader continuously defends an obvious doper, you know that the obvious doper will be busted soon. If it's a whereabouts failure, Thoughtsleader will continue to defend him as he has with Manangoi and Katir.
Thoughtsleader is stating facts. We know you are allergic to facts.
He’ll get a medal in Paris and in a few year’s time his medal will need to be reallocated. Same story over and over again from these North Africans.
More likely he will win gold in Paris, then in a couple of years get a whereabouts failure suspension. When he returns from suspension, he will struggle to break 1:50. Rekkie and Thoughtlessleader will continue to defend him.
It’s gonna shock you, but there have been 4 athletes who averaged 12.7x for the entire 800m race. And the most recent of the 4 ran his world record 12 years ago. So maybe Sedjati is just a historically pretty good 800m runner. If your baseline for a shocking 800m race is beating Bryce Hoppel when he throws up a bit of a stinker*
*in LA he closed in 26.2 to run 1:43.6, today more like 27 to run 1:44.2
To be clear don’t know if he’s doping but 2018 Korir and 2019 Brazier were more impressive.
To me, it's not strictly about the time over the last 100m, whether he ran even and everyone else was going backwards, or whatever else.
There's just a visual je ne sais quois you can observe in these types of guys. I knew it the moment I saw Amos and I knew it the moment I saw Sedjati.
At this point, when Thoughtsleader continuously defends an obvious doper, you know that the obvious doper will be busted soon. If it's a whereabouts failure, Thoughtsleader will continue to defend him as he has with Manangoi and Katir.
All signs show he is getting 1:41 High soon if he continue in the same level (no injury).
To me, it's not strictly about the time over the last 100m, whether he ran even and everyone else was going backwards, or whatever else.
There's just a visual je ne sais quois you can observe in these types of guys. I knew it the moment I saw Amos and I knew it the moment I saw Sedjati.
I have to agree. It is very similar as it was watching Ramzi and Makhloufi. A certain something about their finish that is just off.
BTW, I sometimes had the same feeling watching Bekele back then. Something unhumanly invincible.
Right? Even though Rudisha was a strong candidate for being on the sauce, he floated away from the field with impeccable form. Coming down the home stretch it was the same form, just looking tired, you could tell he was giving it his all to maintain the fluidity. With guys like this, it's almost as if they forget to win by just a hair and instead accidentally blow the field away. Like when my little nephew challenges me to a footrace on Thanksgiving after I've had a few beers and I think, "Time to show this kid the meaning of speed."
He’ll get a medal in Paris and in a few year’s time his medal will need to be reallocated. Same story over and over again from these North Africans.
More likely he will win gold in Paris, then in a couple of years get a whereabouts failure suspension. When he returns from suspension, he will struggle to break 1:50. Rekkie and Thoughtlessleader will continue to defend him.
Historically there isn't a single runner from North Africa that was stripped from a world or Olympic medal. You can cry to Spain, Bahrain, Qatar ... or whatever.
Algeria has a single case in AIU books while India has some 100 cases.
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