Festus Lagat has filed emergency appeal to CAS; Update: The appeal was successful. He's eligible to compete

The Africans and their greedy handlers have ruined the lives of many of the rest of the world’s runners with their blatant drug use, aided by officials behind the scenes with certain political agendas, never mind those getting their cut.

Yeah this is the concern. Considering ADAK was struggling to post provisional suspensions months after they occurred, and not telling anyone about it would you trust them to communicate properly with athletes instead of just letting them accrue easily-resolved filing failures?

The part about them saying every athlete is walking around with 1-2 whereabouts failures is funny to me. I know they're implying that all the regional agencies are awful at coordination and it's not the athletes fault in most cases, but it just feels weird that something that literally ends your career is so nonchalantly cared about until you get to 2 strikes. Like you wouldn't challenge those other strikes earlier if you are innocent, or raise a bigger stink about them if your agency is not responding or refuses to cooperate?

How does an athlete of this caliber even allow themselves to get into this situation? Not filing on time seems crazy. At what point does his agent hold his hand and sit by him while he does it?

I agree with this and I wonder if it’d do more good than harm to have it be announced if an athlete is on 2 strikes. Yeah I’m sure some athletes wouldn’t like it but this would get them to care and also be proactive, as it’s clear many athletes aren’t getting the message.

I think the issue is that if an athlete gets one strike they're not going to fight it because they don't want to pay Paul Greene to fight it. Same when an athlete gets the second strike. Then you get the third strike and you have to go back to something that happened 9-12 months ago and try to prove there was a mistake in protocol.

This is something that always piques my interest when pros mention it. I remember years ago when someone (I think it was Christian Coleman but can't remember for sure) got popped for whereabouts failure a few pros came out and said they literally never get them. Again going off hazy memory but I think Emma Coburn was one who said it should be your responsibility to keep clean whereabouts record. Then there was a Nick Symmonds video on his youtube where he mentioned that he had two whereabouts failures and then had to lock in and take it seriously to avoid the suspension. Nick explained it as having to do with travel and the crazy schedule he leads. Again, it doesn't really shed much light on to whether someone is truly clean or not but, from my perspective, if it was my job to be a pro runner I would try to do everything in my power to keep a clean whereabouts record. Evidently not everyone feels the same...

Didnt Sifan Hassan’s coach say she basically travels the world going from camp to camp all year round? How can she keep her stuff correct when Festus is probably in Flag 9 months a year

Multiple Kenyan athletes in the group and only one with an issue?

How do you know he didn't file on time?

If you are a professional runner and not updating your whereabouts when you change location I have no tears for you. If you wait until the end of the quarter for a warning first, sorry you failed your job.

+1

Plus, most likely none of that is true. All of that came from the sneaky Paul Greene again, who already embarrassed himself endlessly with Shelburrito and Gummy Issam. Going after WADA and the AIU, then after Gatorade, and now after ADAK. His greed has no limits.

And now, Rojo and Gault are falling for his lies again.

Who is his agent?

Festus Lagat? More like Festus Lagat Caught 😂 🤣 😂 🤣

Same as his coach. Stephen Haas.

Paul Greene, the lawyer who declared the burrito argument was a "slam dunk" and that the AIU was out for a witch hunt against Houlihan. Only for Houlihan to say a year later that she and her team knew the burrito argument was a long shot. So much of what he claimed was disproven or white lies when the final CAS decision came out in that case.

Like most Kenyan runners, Festus Lagat is doping.

Say it ain't so Festus!

IOWA STATE ALUM

I seam to remember a doping American who got whooped by a bunch of Iowa St Kenyans and took EPO and BPC157 jsut to try to make their top 7?