Wilson Kipsang ARRESTED for breaking COVID19 curfew

Coevett, when do you think some Kenyan runner paid foreign coaches ? Maybe you do some confusion with the "professional sprinters", Jamaican or from the States, who earn a lot of money more than African runners (apart very few ecceptions), who pay directly their coach, their physio, their doctor, in a situation organised by their agents.

In Africa, the situation is the following :

1) Nobody has some economic support by the Federation, like happens in the most part of the European Countries

2) Very few have some contract with technical Companies, and of very low amount (5,000 - 10000 USD yearly).

3) The only way they have to earn some money is through the prizes of the competitions

4) For winning the prizes, they have to compete, and at the moment without some important management, there is NO WAY that African athletes can have entered in any competition (absolutely no chance in track meetings, some possibility in Road races of third level, in China or Brazil or Mexico, where they can go without official managers, if know some of the fake agents working at that level, who frequently cheat the athletes not paying them the moneythey win)

5) So, the athletes can train using training camps, where everything is paid by the managements

6) For this type of service, and for the assistance received for being accepted in competitions, from all their income, they pay the percentage of 15% of the net they receive or win or have as appearance.

So, stop to think coaches can receive money from African runners. Normally, coaches working with African do this more because they like that type of life than because coaching African can be a source of income. A Young coach working at a level of HS in US earns very much more money than the best coaches in the World working with African athletes.

Well, yes - that's my point.

Kenyan runners agree to let their managers/coaches/training camps take a percentage of their winnings, but without races, how much longer will they be able to continue getting the benefit of that? Coaches have to eat and pay bills, training camps have expenses to pay.

I guess it's a moot point at the moment when everything is locked down anyway, including training camps, but I assume when restrictions are lifted, likely gradually at first, it might be a long, long time before there are any races to be held and prize money to be won.

And yes, of course a young American runner competing for a varsity team is a lot more secure than a young Kenyan runner relying on paying his way in a training camp by agreeing a cut of race winnings. That's why I asked the question - surely a year or more without races could be a particular problem for young Kenyans and East Africans?

NativeSon wrote:

Coevett wrote:

I love Kenyan newspapers. I've become addicted to them. I don't read them for the doping busts anymore, just for the hilarious articles.

So if I've read that story correctly, a Kenyan MP refused to pay after a 'happy ending' at a 'massage parlour', and the jezebels then tried to frighten him by claiming they had infected him with the coronavirus?

In most countries in the West now, the Kenyan MP would be prosecuted for rape, and the pros would be prosecuted for attempted murder.

Please keep off!

Thank you.

I didn't mean to suggest that Kenya was backward in their legal system - quite the contrary. It's quite refreshing to see that SJW insanity and radical feminism hasn't yet infected Kenya to the extent it has in the West.

I just find something hilarious about the way these crazy stories are presented in the Kenyan newspapers.

Yikes, first he tests positive and then this. Dude needs to stay home and chill.