Three more Kenyan runners busted

Imagine calling someone "hate-filled" while also calling them names. C'mon, little guy, do better.

More being a clown from the clown leader. How about it, little guy?

Managers and agents need to be held responsible. This includes fines and deportation. There should be serious consideration for a blanket ban on countries where a certain number of positive doping tests are achieved per year.

Sorry; and with the same repercussions that stand for any drug dealer.

Those who dope young in this country are not the uber talented type who enter the sport only because their coaches in another sport noticed that they were much faster than anyone else and whose improvement curve has shown no sign of slacking.

There are major statistical differences between the two countries. The size of their economies is very close but hardly meaningful because Ethiopia has 105 million people to Kenya's 48.5 million. Though GDP per capita growth is very similar at about 4%, Kenya's economy is much stronger and Ethiopia is plunged in civil war. Ethiopia's inflation is three times Kenya's and; its GDP per capita about 60% of Kenya's. Life expectancy is the same.

Ethiopia vs Kenya: Economic Indicators Comparison
Kenya with a GDP of $87.9B ranked the 66th largest economy in the world, while Ethiopia ranked 68th with $84.4B. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Kenya and Ethiopia ranked 25th vs 2nd and 153rd vs 181st, respectively.
Gross Domestic Product & Income
StatEthiopiaKenyaGDP$84.4B
$87.9B
GDP growth, 1 year7.7%
6%
GDP growth, 5-years average9.3%
5.6%
Population105M
48.5M
GDP per capita$772
$1.7k
GDP per capita growth4.05%
3.9%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor9.97
49.97
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate0.38
0.49
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted$2.3k
$3.7k
GNI, Atlas method$86.7B
$83.1B
GNI per capita$790
$1.6k
GNI, PPP adjusted$219.4B
$176.7B
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted$2k
$3.4k
Financial system and Human development
StatEthiopiaKenyaIncome Tax Rate35%
30%
Corporate Tax Rate30%
30%
Inflation, consumer prices13.8%
4.7%
Inflation, GDP deflator12.5%
2.8%
Unemployment1.8%
9.3%
Economic Freedom Index53.6
55.3
Personal Freedom Index5.44
6.48
Human Freedom Index5.33
6.61
Property Rights Index36.5
63.2
Judicial Effectiveness Index45.1
48.6
Business Freedom Index48.6
55
Fiscal Health Index79.2
13.5
Labor Freedom Index57.6
55.8
Investment Freedom Index35
55
Financial Freedom Index20
50
Trade Freedom Index60.8
60.4
Monetary Freedom Index62.7
75
Government Spending Index90.8
79.6
Tax Burden Index77.4
78.7
Government Integrity Index29.4
28.2
Corruption Perceptions Index34
27
Life expectancy at birth, years65.9
65.9
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people7.2
3.2
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people26.7
27.8
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people7.6
5
International tourism, number of arrivals849k
1.4M

Incorrect. The chances of Kipchoge being clean have not been altered one iota in the minds of the intelligent. It is your perception that has been altered.

Knowing Kenya, they will make all the right noises about fighting this. But no one over there really gives a s**t. The authorities are there for their salaries and to skim off what they can. Enforcement is weak, lax, and no one cares enough to strengthen it. It is a deeply corrupt society (you won't drive in Kenya with Ugandan plates for 80 km without having to bribe a police officer, even if you've committed no offence; our officers are equally corrupt, but will let our neighbours/foreigners go if all is in order). The sport is overly commercialised there and is a get-out-of poverty card for millions and millions willing to do anything to succeed. Athletics Kenya is going to need a powerful disincentive to take this seriously.

Still waiting with bated breath for the Lance Armstrong-level bust. I don't think these fit the description. Any news? Anywhere? Any how?

That thread was the bust itself. For some of you it carried much promise but it ended with the tiny thud of nothingness.

Youre slamming Kebert for his comments??
There is no bigger racist on LRC than Coevett. Have you ever ripped him apart???

So how does any of that prove that the Ethiopians don't dope?

Rather, the pitter-patter of nearly daily busts.

Who said Ethiopians don't dope? The relative lack of busts in Ethiopia is probably due to lack of in-country blood testing and the remoteness of training sites.

Oh, shut it!

^ Just so you know, the post quoted above is from an extremely irritating Ugandan whose sole purpose this forum seems to be to opine on a country he knows very little about because no one's interested in talking about his. A lot of Kenya-envy in that hellhole.

For the next WC and Olympic cycle allow only one Kenyan athlete to represent their country 800m-Marathon. Maybe they will get serious about the doppers, managers and agents.

"In the Corruption Perceptions Index 2021 Kenya is ranked 128th out of 180 countries for corruption, tied with seven other countries, including Bolivia, Azerbaijan, Laos, and Paraguay (least corrupt countries are at the top of the list)."

It seems to me that the athletes got very used to making up stories which Kenyan authorities just accepted or even invited. Along comes AIU, which one assumes don’t take bribes, and we have cascades of offences.