bye bye
bye bye
Just heard on BBC Kenyan Sumgong tests positive.
Let the good times roll.....
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sport-doping-sumgong-idUSKBN1782Y7
Which group she's training with?
Oh Kenya wrote:
Just heard on BBC Kenyan Sumgong tests positive.
Oh Kenya wrote:
Just heard on BBC Kenyan Sumgong tests positive.
Thought EPO does not work on Kenyans ... Must be mistake.
EPO doesn't work for Kenyan elites.
Must be be mistaken.
The EPO was in very small amounts in tainted burgers.
She used to be Rita Jeptoo's (who also failed out of competition test for EPO) training partner.
Which Kenyans are not on EPO? I mean seriously.
So had there been no " Enhanced Testing in Kenya", would have been a normal day for these athletes.
So it's ok to literally have a pair of testicles that produce make amounts of testosterone, but it ok to use epo? Ok, got it. Clear as mud.
In 2007, she ran 2:29.
Four years later her pr dropped to 2:28.
Two years on, in 2013, she ran 2:20.
She ran pr's of 10k, 15k, 20k, and half marathon in Dubai this year (1:06ish).
Olympic marathon champ in Rio after 4th in Beijing in 2015.
Her agent? Wait for the big surprise and shock: Federico Rosa.
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/kenya/jemima-jelagat-sumgong-224362
So, it is just a matter of time before Mazuronak gets caught (went from 2:33 to 2:23 in the heat in just three years). Drop one more E. African and Flanagan gets bronze.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
I know there are tons of drug busts but for some reason this is blowing me away. What's the point of being a fan anymore.
I guess it's because of this.
If this holds up, Dr. Gabriela Rosa, lied to my freaking face. It reminds me ofa conversation I had with David Epstein a few years back after he helped expose Lance Armstrong as a fraud. I said, "What was the most surprising thing you learned?"
He replied along the lines of, "That a grown human being can stare you straight in the race and very convincingly tell you something with great passion that is a total lie."
I now know what he's talking about.
You might as well combine the three threads that are going about this.
Good thing epo doesn't work on kenyans.
Surprise, surprise, guess who her agent is.
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/kenya/jemima-jelagat-sumgong-224362#ar
Don't forget that there's no testing in Kenya and Kenyans are politically protected.
Let's not forget that she's also the training partner of the "breakthrough" athlete who won Tokyo.
I'm pretty pissed as well.
I spent a full day with Sumgong and her trainig mates two weeks ago. Jemima showed me around her house.
Just today I started to think about what I was going to write. She and her training mates gave a goodstory for their improvement. After Claudio left as her coach in aftermath of Jeptoo bust, her husband Noah started coaching her and they also have a ton of male pacers. She said her husband understood her and her training partners better being Kenyan and on the ground. It was plausible.
Now I'll never forget how Sumgong acted all stupid when Jeptoo tested positive and it was announced at NYC. She pretended she didn't understand my questions. Next time I saw her I was surprised how good her English was. But at Rio the journalists asked her anti-doping questions and she directly and fervently answered them saying she was clean.
Now my article will be "My day at Jemima Sumgong's Doping Camp* "
*awaiting B Test