NCAA 800 record holder Michael Saruni goes pro early

kiprop and the EPO drama

Surely a prime medal prospect with Korir, Amos, and Murphy next year. I'd put his chances, at least in Diamond League races, as very good for second/silver behind Korir, but who knows what will happen in his first World Championships and who knows how well Korir will do with rounds as well. The prospect of heightened testing may well affect matters as well. When Kenya was holding its camp in England in 2012, far away from their usual drug supplies/training grounds, things didn't go well. Nor did they go well in Rio. At World's, however, Kenya has done very well. It seems that it is the Olympics that brings problems.

zxczxcv wrote:

Surely a prime medal prospect with Korir, Amos, and Murphy next year. I'd put his chances, at least in Diamond League races, as very good for second/silver behind Korir, but who knows what will happen in his first World Championships and who knows how well Korir will do with rounds as well. The prospect of heightened testing may well affect matters as well. When Kenya was holding its camp in England in 2012, far away from their usual drug supplies/training grounds, things didn't go well. Nor did they go well in Rio. At World's, however, Kenya has done very well. It seems that it is the Olympics that brings problems.

Lol what? Did you even look at the 2012 Olympic results? In the men's 800 they came 1 and 3!!!! Rudisha came 1st in 2016 as well!!!

Saruni just claimed that FloTrack is lying about his signing with NIKE.

This is not true. He has posted on social media multiple times saying he is not signed with Nike and commented "its triple stripes".

mcvred wrote:

This is not true. He has posted on social media multiple times saying he is not signed with Nike and commented "its triple stripes".

So it's adidas.

Please check your facts wrote:

zxczxcv wrote:

Surely a prime medal prospect with Korir, Amos, and Murphy next year. I'd put his chances, at least in Diamond League races, as very good for second/silver behind Korir, but who knows what will happen in his first World Championships and who knows how well Korir will do with rounds as well. The prospect of heightened testing may well affect matters as well. When Kenya was holding its camp in England in 2012, far away from their usual drug supplies/training grounds, things didn't go well. Nor did they go well in Rio. At World's, however, Kenya has done very well. It seems that it is the Olympics that brings problems.

Lol what? Did you even look at the 2012 Olympic results? In the men's 800 they came 1 and 3!!!! Rudisha came 1st in 2016 as well!!!

Yeah that was a pretty silly thing to post on a thread about an 800m runner.

zxczxcv wrote:

Surely a prime medal prospect with Korir, Amos, and Murphy next year.

Murphy does NOT deserve to be in the same sentence with those names.

zxczxcv wrote:

When Kenya was holding its camp in England in 2012, far away from their usual drug supplies/training grounds, things didn't go well. Nor did they go well in Rio. At World's, however, Kenya has done very well. It seems that it is the Olympics that brings problems.

As well as stupidly including Murphy in a list with much better 800 runners, you don't seem to have your facts straight on Olympic results.

In the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, Kenya "only" took home three of the six medals in the men's 800. How many would it take for you to say it went "well"??

zxczxcv wrote:

Surely a prime medal prospect with Korir, Amos, and Murphy next year. I'd put his chances, at least in Diamond League races, as very good for second/silver behind Korir, but who knows what will happen in his first World Championships and who knows how well Korir will do with rounds as well. The prospect of heightened testing may well affect matters as well. When Kenya was holding its camp in England in 2012, far away from their usual drug supplies/training grounds, things didn't go well. Nor did they go well in Rio. At World's, however, Kenya has done very well. It seems that it is the Olympics that brings problems.

This guy is Kenyan as well, so he is definitely doping.