This is funny too:
"Kimetto said he had been diagnosed with malaria in July and had a back problem in August but had trained well the past six weeks."
Malaria AND a back problem!
Ritz misses a few weeks of training here and there and everyone is all like "POOR RITZ! That guy is ALWAYS hurt! Can't catch a break. if he were more durable, he'd be running 2:04 like them africans."
In reality, Ritz trained as hard in HS as Kimetto does now (not faster, but as hard, as far as volume and pace relative to ability. Look at some of his insane HS training). Ritz has WAAY more lifetime miles than Kimetto, showed incredible talent as a youngster, has incredible drive and work ethic, excellent speed at 2 miles and 5k, amazing support from Nike and Salazar, cutting edge/gray area "recovery" means (altitude houses), trained on trails/hills in CO and OR as nice as anything the Kenyans train on, etc, etc, etc....
Doesn't matter. Ritz 2:07, kimetto 2:02.
It ain't the farming. It ain't the environment.