kijana wa genge wrote:
Tomato Jake wrote:
I kinda wanna know WTF is up with Africans being coached by Italian coaches the likes of Canova and Rosa? Don’t the Africans have their own coaching staff at this point? Are the Canova/Rosa types just opportunistic pimps or ...?
They do. Most of the best coaches in Kenya are Kenyan. How many athletes did Canova have at the World Champs? AK has passed rules making it very difficult for foreign coaches to operate in Kenya.
Here it will always be: "Kenyans are all coached by Italians". And the old "There's minimal testing in Kenya". All these lazy assumptions can be easily disproved by a little research, but no one bothers because it gives them comfort to believe what they want. If only they knew the numbers of desperate runners from their own countries coaches like Patrick Sang or Bernard Ouma have had to reject.