Half Marathon WR holder Abraham Kiptum busted by Bio Passport!!!!!!!!

Woah! That's huge!

Countless East Africans busted for doping?

"I'm sure the ones still competing are clean though!"

Corrupt coaches and agents explicitly linked to doping?

"That's no guarantee that all their athletes dope!"

Men with 5 o'clock shadow and receding hairlines winning junior races?

"Life is just harder over there, they age faster!"

Proof that EPO is available over the counter and drug testing is nonexistent?

"Still doesn't mean they're cheating! They ran 20 miles to school every day!"

Cheater shoes with literal springs in them?

"Hey they only improve efficiency by 4%, they don't make you 4% faster!"

HONK HONK.

Sorry, but like I have said for the sprints, there is no ubermensch.

Anybody faster than a doped excellent athlete is himself doped.

Drugs WORK. And they’re scary as hell

No reason to belive that almost any Kenyan runner you've heard of is clean. The risk/reward for someone growing up in that environment leads people to dope every time.

Holy sh-t!

Congrats to Tadesse on getting his WR back?

Still small potatoes compared to clown-shoes man. Would love to see him fall next, but the Nike/advertisement connections are too strong.

90+% of professional Kenyan runners are doping wrote:

No reason to belive that almost any Kenyan runner you've heard of is clean. The risk/reward for someone growing up in that environment leads people to dope every time.

^This.

Phantasy Star wrote:

Still small potatoes compared to clown-shoes man. Would love to see him fall next, but the Nike/advertisement connections are too strong.

Yes...but I would still like to see that piece of garbage Makloufi go down first, and farthest, followed by clown shoes, as far as distance guys go. And there is one other guy, too

but but he's a c-level Kenyan. All the top guys don't dope.

To say he came out of nowhere may be a tiny bit misleading (although as Jonathan Gault said, "I follow running for a living and I've never heard of him." )

Before the WR he had run 27:44 for 10k, 59:36 for the half and 2:05:26 for the marathon.

The 1st results we see for the 29 year old are in 2015 - 2:11:36 for 3rd in Rabat. In 2016, he ran 59:36 for the half in Copenhagen. In 2017, he ran a road 10k in 27:44, 60:06 for the half and 2:05:26 for martheathon before setting the WR last year in the half and running 2:04:16 in Abu Dhabi.

This latest doping bust for Kenya certainly proves that western nations (particularly the UK) are the worst in the world.

Just blatant from the Brits.

Hardloper wrote:

Holy sh-t!

Congrats to Tadesse on getting his WR back?

Yeah! Because Tadesse is clean.

/sarc

This thread was posted on Boston Marathon day. It looks like the mods (?) deleted the original post but if I remember correctly, the OP said that a major Kenyan bust would come out after Boston, before London. Looks like the OP was correct.

This is too much! I’m done!

Fake news! He was at altitude like my wife, which proves they were both clean.

Also both are fast, and doping slows you down, get it?

Maybe he borrowed Mo's watch?

send in the clowns!!! wrote:

Countless East Africans busted for doping?

"I'm sure the ones still competing are clean though!"

Corrupt coaches and agents explicitly linked to doping?

"That's no guarantee that all their athletes dope!"

Men with 5 o'clock shadow and receding hairlines winning junior races?

"Life is just harder over there, they age faster!"

Proof that EPO is available over the counter and drug testing is nonexistent?

"Still doesn't mean they're cheating! They ran 20 miles to school every day!"

Cheater shoes with literal springs in them?

"Hey they only improve efficiency by 4%, they don't make you 4% faster!"

HONK HONK.

Totally agree with you.

At this point i'm close to changing my stance 180 degrees and being OK with allowing doping in athletics.

I don't ever really trust that international race results involve clean runners anyway.

sad times

Between Sir MOans-a-lot and now this, the London Marathon commentators will have all sorts of fodder to kill time during the early stages of the race before Eliud slowly pulls away and the women hopefully stage a battle for the ages.