More Kenyan athletes caught doping

Do you really think AK would suddenly come out of the blue and shoot itself in the foot for no reason at all? Consider this.. Since the formation of PAAK (Professional Athletes Association of Kenya - Headed by Wilson Kipsang) professional athletes have now gotten a voice they can now protest the unfair taxes and levies AK slaps on them (http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/article/2000145727/paak-ak-deducted-athletes-earnings-irregularly), the unfair selection of Athletes to represent Kenyans (regular letsrunners surely must see this) and so on. It seems the unscrupulous leaders of AK would rather take the whole ship down than lose. That's why you see them doing crazy things like announcing Wilson Kipsang's missed test (http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2014/12/17/wilson-kipsang-angry-that-missed-drug-test-made-public/). Not to worry friends, it's a bullying tactic, most Kenyan pros are clean, hard working and talented individuals. This really is not about doping as it is about Isaiah Kiplagat and Athletics Kenya trying to regain absolute control of Kenyan running by threatening to end their own athletes careers.

The ONLY way to reduce doping is to unprofessionalize running, take away the money and you take away the primary reason to dope. The per capita income in Kenya is less than $1,000 per YEAR!

You seem to be saying that the Kenyan Athletics Federation bullies their athletes in a very similar manner to that of the Russian Athletics Federation ...

Bobby1 wrote:

The ONLY way to reduce doping is to unprofessionalize running, take away the money and you take away the primary reason to dope. The per capita income in Kenya is less than $1,000 per YEAR!

I totally agree but for obvious reasons it won't ever happen

Charles Marlow wrote:

I still think that many of the great Kenyan runners of the 80s and 90s were clean. I'd also like to think that not all world class Kenyans today are dirty. But who can say for certain? That's the really insidious thing about drugs in sport.

Speaking of PEDs, it's amazing how blatant doping is in American professional sports like football. JJ Watt puts the East Germany shot put team of the 1970s to shame, and not one soul on the major American TV networks has a hint of suspicion!

Lots of NFL guys put JJ Watt to shame in the PED department. But you single him out because he's white, not because of his ability or the way he looks. PC cowardice.

The rapid drop in the numbers of Kenyans and Ethiopians running sub 13, or doing things like finishing the final 5k of a 10k in less than 13 minutes is a good indicator of how crooked things have been. Most of the great Kenyans and Ethiopians of the late 80's through today have likely been doped. No out of season spot testing combined with unscrupulous coaches and agents led to this. Without PEDs the E. Africans would have the highest percentage of top runners, but not the dominance we currently see. But that's only if the rest of the world started to compete again.