Hardloper wrote:
LM wrote:First off, Farah trains in the US so it isn't like he is on the course all day.
Farah does a lot of training in Iten this time of year. The Kenyans see this as very significant. In fact they will root for him over just about any other non-Kenyan, because they know he "needs" to train in Kenya every year to keep winning.
That's true. Though I was responding to the guy who made it sound like Farah has crazy experience running London, which neither Iten or Oregon are.
They are talking about is course of medication
Kipsang was misquoted, Farah lives in London some of the time , so he is familiar with the course. His endurance comes from running the 10000m and half marathon. The guy was just trying not to dismiss Farah as a nobody. The writer of the article combined the course familiarity and endurance into one sentence distorting the meaning. Kipsang was trying to be diplomatic and give Farah some recognition but the whole thing got lost in translation.
El Keniano wrote:
And thanks for stereotyping as all as blind sheep who don't question authority, but let me assure you things have changed in this country since the '70s when you lived here.
I wish that were so, but as you can see from my 'name' taken from a very recent pop song it was in fact rather more recent. I was working for an NGO in Western in a rural community so I suspect that this was more the case here than in Nairobi. Having said that, the recent election was run on almost entirely tribal lines so I think that the majority of your countryman have not moved on as much as you hope.
Kasinkina wrote:
Nakupenda pia pia wrote:I lived in Kenya for 3 years and the standard of journalism is appaling. You can barely read a paragragh in one of the countries two main daily papers without finding mistakes , and often whats written is so baffling as to not even make sense. Kipsang may or may not have said this or anything like this. One of the 'nuances' of Africa is that no one questions anything which is done by someone who is percieved to be powerful or important and journalists fall into this category.
Yes about as good as Swahili articles in the US
English is an official National language in Kenya so this excuse doesn't wash
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