Athletics Illustrated - Phanuel Koech does not make sense

Reminds me of Jim Ryun.

... and Kipchoge

dopers gonna dope

Runner with the best stride since a long time. Amazing knee drive.

Sounds like a forum poster here wrote it. Investigate who his parents are? Maybe they are ... Mr and Mrs Koech?

The doping is bad enough, but his display of arrogance and cockiness at the end is revolting.

Thanks, Coevett,

The way Russia got band is because the media went nuts and demanded it. Truth to power.

Notice that when the government of Kenya pledged or agreed to invest $5 million per year into anti-doping, the positive tests went through the roof. They apparently reneged on that deal, and the positive tests waned. I guess they did not want to invest in their own demise.

Now in-competition testing seems to be getting results, when it has long thought to be less effective...for whatever reason. Totally unsure why.

I personally know a bunch of Kenyans. Great people with a massive poverty problem. They are just not going to stop doping because of the lure of money. Athletics Kenya needs to be suspended until they sort the issue out. Over 400 suspended athletes would decimate any other nation.

Nah. Ryun was an actual teen when he first hit the big time.

Excuse me, who is Jim Ryun, this is the first time I've heard of this name.

Imagine if Athletics Illustrated was around for Jim Ryun, Zola Budd, Eliud Kipchoge, Allyson Felix, Kirani James, Ghebreselasie, Tirunesh Dibaba... they would have accused Herb Elliott of doping..

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I see what you did there. Yeah. Lots of hate for Ryun in that corner.

LOLs you ain't media!

What is this supposed to mean? Athletics Illustrated was around for every name you mention but Ryun, Budd, and Elliott.

He has a good stride, but it's probably performance-enhanced big time... and there's much less swing mass on his legs, they're like sticks

Then you didn't know Asbel Kiprop.

How can the powers that be continue to have a blind eye to the doping facts surrounding Kenya and East Africa as a whole?

How many busts does it take to conclude the obvious? How many never get busted?

Kenyan Athletes, coaches, agents, pharmacists, athletic officials, government officials, athletes family members, the communities in which they live all are part of this. None of them care about sport integrity, they only care about making money any way they can. There are no serious reprisals; rather there is acceptance of it all. Athlete after athlete gets busted and there are hundreds waiting in the wings to do the same and they are prayed upon by everyone listed. No athlete squeals for fear of death and death to their extended family. It’s criminal… Mafia rule due to the large amounts of money to be had.

None of what is and has been going on for decades aligns with Olympic or sport ideals.

I feel for those many clean athletes that are continually robbed of their glory, their pay check, their self worth.

End this madness and slap Kenya with an outright ban on their athletes being able to compete. Then focus resources on Ethiopia, Uganda, heck even Spain.

Do something Wada, AIU, World Athletics, Olympics, Kenya sure as heck won’t. Otherwise kiss track and field goodbye and look in the mirror and ask yourselves who is at fault.

He is far from 18. Why do we just accept these ridiculous ages from the African athletes?