French Morroccan getting within touching distance of EL G's WR at age 31, and two Kenyans coming out of nowhere to run 3:27/8, one of them an '18 year old', and one of them called 'Lagat'.
Is there a new undetectable form of EPO out there or something?
French Morroccan getting within touching distance of EL G's WR at age 31, and two Kenyans coming out of nowhere to run 3:27/8, one of them an '18 year old', and one of them called 'Lagat'.
Is there a new undetectable form of EPO out there or something?
Festus Lagat's 800m PB at age 22: 1:45.05 to finish 3rd at NCAAs George Mills' 800m PB at age 22: 1:46.68 to finish 4th at Sport City Grand Prix.
Of course yes Habz' time is pretty wild, as is his late-career surge. It doesn't seem like he is a bit of a pariah on the circuit a la Mo Katir (if that means anything). Lagat also ran 3:29.03
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French Morroccan getting within touching distance of EL G's WR at age 31, and two Kenyans coming out of nowhere to run 3:27/8, one of them an '18 year old', and one of them called 'Lagat'.
Is there a new undetectable form of EPO out there or something?
I don’t see these kind of posts from you when some of the lighter skinned runners are excelling. Maybe I missed them?
Seems like either there is some improvement to the shoe technology, doping, or this track is insanely fast. I'm too lazy to look up the crazy times here, but I think the track is part of it.
Also truly great job pacemaking. Habz making Jakob's indoor season look even more impressive, between Jakob beating Habz and Aregawi without too much difficulty
French Morroccan getting within touching distance of EL G's WR at age 31, and two Kenyans coming out of nowhere to run 3:27/8, one of them an '18 year old', and one of them called 'Lagat'.
Is there a new undetectable form of EPO out there or something?
I don’t see these kind of posts from you when some of the lighter skinned runners are excelling. Maybe I missed them?
Mayby you missed 400 Kenyan doping suspensions, as well as countless Moroccan busts, including many 'French', 'Spanish', and 'Belgian' Moroccans?
This one deserves a quote from the great Marty Liquori
"Ahhh, can not be"
This the same guy run out of Paris in the semi-finals last season after only making them in the repechage round? Go look at the guys ahead of him on now on the all-time list (there are only 5 of them).
The 3.29's in this era I could in a way understand. This is a different stratosphere I just can't rationalize.
Seems like either there is some improvement to the shoe technology, doping, or this track is insanely fast. I'm too lazy to look up the crazy times here, but I think the track is part of it.
Also truly great job pacemaking. Habz making Jakob's indoor season look even more impressive, between Jakob beating Habz and Aregawi without too much difficulty
Habz also only ran 1503.8m, whereas everyone else outside of the South African ran in the 1510-1515m. Koech did get a nice draft, even when slightly wide.