Dear (Deer) LetsRun. Did Emmanuel Bett Fail a Dope Test?

El Keniano wrote:

Hasn’t stopped him from achieving superstar name recognition on LetsRun and being weaponised against Kenyan athletics in general, though.

You're right, along with the weaponization of all the other Kenyan dopers who have been caught. Unfortunately, those being caught are just the tip of the iceberg, who knows how many go undetected. Still, Sam's picked himself up a nice little sum for the year of 2017.

If Sam is unskilled he's probably lucky to earn US$200 a month, if that, maybe even half of that, if he was in a job with basic skills of some sort maybe US$250 if he's really, really lucky, although if he's in a job requiring skills he'll have trouble finding time to train or have the inclination to do so as his job would take priority.

So around US$2400 a year before deductions (and that's being really, really generous as it's over twice the minimum wage or more) as opposed to what, US$30,000 before deductions in 2017 from running. He's still able to work for the next four years, or even buy a small farm or business and work that, and maybe then get back in to running competition in four years time as he's still young enough, Kipsorio has.

So good luck to him, why wouldn't he take the chance and dope?

(Anyone else got other figures?)

El Keniano wrote:

Nice little earners. wrote:

Looks like our Sammy racked up quite a few nice little earners in 2017 on the back of his doping:

Athens 12 November 2017 - 1 Samuel KALALEI KEN 2:12:17

Stockholm 3 June 2017 - 3 Samuel KALALEI KEN 2:12:36

Barcelona 12 March 2017 - 6 Samwell KALALEI KEN 2:14:50

http://aims-worldrunning.org/results/archive/2017.html#01

Those times are pathetic and indicative of why he wouldn’t be on any testing pool in Kenya. Hasn’t stopped him from achieving superstar name recognition on LetsRun and being weaponised against Kenyan athletics in general, though.

Dumb post El K - this is where the trolling side of you really shows itself.

It doesn't matter if you think his times are "pathetic." He's a professional runner who won an international marathon and placed high in a couple of others. He's also a professional athlete who got caught cheating with doping! You heard Canova; these lower-tier Kenyan "B" runners can make a pretty decent living from the roads. How many clean runners did he cheat in the races he ran? He's a DISGRACE to the other lower-tier Kenyan runners who are trying to it clean!

And he's not being "weaponized against Kenyan athletics" - that's already been done with the "superstar recognition" and big time household names such as Kiprop, Jebet, Jeptoo, Bett, Sumgong, Kisario, Wangari, etc. If anything, the Kalaei ban shows just how widespread doping is in Kenya with positives coming from the lower-tier runners all the way up to the superstars. ?

Renato Canova wrote:

Of course this is not bad for a Kenyan without any job, but is not more than what a normal farmer can earn with a farm of medium size. And of sure can't change his life winning Athens.

Of course he's got to have been able to afford a medium sized farm in the first place Renato. If he was without a job or earnt the minimum wage of a agricultural worker, then those 2017 running earnings do look life changing.

Minimum wage for an ag worker is around US$850 a year.

What's The Deal? wrote:

already voted wrote:

As if it matters. El Keniano hates Brits as a group and hates ethnic Anglo-Saxons whether they grew up in Britain or New Zealand. Is that more semantically accurate?

Who the hell is El Keniano dude? Is he even Kenyan to begin with?

No he’s not actually Kenyan. Likely lives in the states or Europe somewhere. White as can be.

I'm calling you out on this one wrote:

And he's not being "weaponized against Kenyan athletics" - that's already been done with the "superstar recognition" and big time household names such as ... Wangari,

My sides! ? ? ?

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

What's The Deal? wrote:

Who the hell is El Keniano dude? Is he even Kenyan to begin with?

No he’s not actually Kenyan. Likely lives in the states or Europe somewhere. White as can be.

Just a Kenyan doping sympathizer then?

Life changer. wrote:

Of course he's got to have been able to afford a medium sized farm in the first place Renato.

He can afford one now and pay people to work it for him while he trains for the next four years in readiness for his comeback, 900 acres of prime agricultural land for sale in Cheptiret, Eldoret. Ideal for farming, institutional development or industrial use. KSh 700,000 - US$6832:

you bettt your botto, bollar wrote:

You bett they did.

Perhaps the name Bett is our equivalent of Mud (eg Samuel Mudd)

yyuu wrote:

already voted wrote:

El Keniano is a fanatical racist with a passionate hatred of the British people as a race

Hi Coevett! :D

"British people" is not a race, by the way.

Well we sort of are. We invent things and then the rest of the world does it better. The rest of the world is way, way better looking. (BTW Irish, English and Dutch/Flfmish ancestry).

El Keniano wrote:

The coach has spelt it out for you lot. Athens is only prestigious if you believe Pheidippides achieved a sub 4:00 there.

Hey, no disrespecting the ancient Greeks. BTW if Pheidippides didn't run the first marathon, what would Kenya do for foreign exchange?

El Keniano wrote:

I'm calling you out on this one wrote:

And he's not being "weaponized against Kenyan athletics" - that's already been done with the "superstar recognition" and big time household names such as ... Wangari,

My sides! ? ? ?

What are smoking? ? Wangari is big time and prime time after winning the 2016 Copenhagen HM with that sizzling 59:07, which makes him the 28th fastest ever at that distance:

Look at this post-race interview after Copenhagen. He stunned the racing community with that performance:

Remember: "59:07"...big timeand prime time.

Subway Surfers wrote:

BTW if Pheidippides didn't run the first marathon, what would Kenya do for foreign exchange?

Your mom?

I think that Langford has shown incredible restraint and compassion towards someone who has basically robbed him. Regardless of how accurate his assessment is of Bett’s lifestyle, his words display empathy and are imo far too forgiving.

Only someone with biased, bitter and bigoted views could spin what he has said into some reflection of an ignorant and racist UK.

You are the first to criticise and play the racist card when someone passes comment on Kenyan dopers. You should look at yourself a bit more closely.

+1

Well said.

Well done, I think you've shut El K up.

Well done. wrote:

Well done, I think you've shut El K up.

+1

Not for long though.

+1

It was a very classy interview by Langford. I think you mentioned you know his family, I only follow him on social media and read the interviews he gives, but he comes across as a very decent guy.

This thread is really in bad taste tbh, and I think even those who are usually charitable to El K think that. Shows exactly how much he cares about the doping problem in 'his' country.

Can't wait for next season and see the progression of the stacked young talent we now have in GB at middle-distance.

Coevett wrote:

This thread is really in bad taste tbh, and I think even those who are usually charitable to El K think that.

His troll thread got to five pages (although his posts make up two and mine make up another two) so well done him. Although all he really had to do was email LR pointing out the error, so yeah, you're right, the "thread is really in bad taste".

Where did I criticise his comments on doping? He made an ignorant blanket remark about a country he doesn’t know and never been (not unlike resident LRC Kenya “experts”) and that’s what I focused on. It’s there in black and white: your boy flat out called Kenya “a very bad environment”, did he not?

Excuse me, but I judge people on their words and in these days when overt bigotry is becoming increasingly frowned upon in some (not all) parts of the world, reading between lines is often the only way to uncover a person’s true beliefs.