Why I think Faith Kipyegon is using illegal PEDs

track and field,and sport in general has become rather laughable.Chemically enhanced cyborgs battling it out ,showing off their best pharmaceuticals.Everyone is on industrial strength drugs these days,but the only suprise is that koch and kratochvilova's records havent been broken.

Don't dope during competition. Train while doped. You train while doped you can train harder and more often.

If your values are always artificially high but not so high that you trigger something like the T:E ratio then you can dope all day as long as you remain at this artificially high number.

Hematocrit % actually drops due to endurance training due to increased plasma volume. EPO and blood packing artificially raise the hematocrit to 'normal' levels.

Ditto with testosterone.

Designer drugs are created all the time to beat tests. Micro-dosing also seems to be all the rage.

So again....all you really need to worry about is the out of competition testing.

I also think it would be ridiculously easy for a major sponsor with big pockets to get a tester to look the other way.

Alan

What are you talking about?

She went on to win the double 1.5/3k indoors in 2018

Ran 14.26 for the 5k in 18

Ran 8.21 3k in 19

3.54/55 in 1500 in 19

Ran a 65 half

And now is a 2.18 marathoner

Pfffft

And heres the problem with accusing someone with doping when he has zero proof. Why does someone like Kipyegon, who has had a long splendid career, have to fall under suspicion and be openly accused on LRC?

How would any one of you like to be accused of something that you never did, based on falling into some self created algorithm of suspicion?

This is just wrong and threads like this should be deleted just as quickly as racist or sexist ones. Why would Rojo want to put up a black page for her while dozens of others are accusing her of cheating? Make up your minds brojos.

In the views of those accusing Kipyegon, almost everyone who is running well is suspicious.

Why would you blame doping before shoes or changing training styles?

Pure envy and a complete lack of caring about the athlete involved.

If Centro ran 4 seconds over his 800 PR for a full 1500 as Kipyegon did, his PR for 1500 would be 3:23.

you are a Kenyan and you live at altitude ---> EPO doesn't give any benefit

He has never said this. Now you know.

If Sifan Hassan ran 4 seconds over her 800 PR for the full 1500, her PR would be 3:46.

Hassan isn't anywhere near that, even though she is the endurance type with 5,000, 10,000 titles and a marathon win.

Interesting that Kipyegon's PRs at 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000 all came early in the season in May/June which is the pattern of a doper. Offseason doping in isolated regions where it's hard to test leads to excellent indoor/early outdoor performances. Then when the season gets started and they must submit to testing regularly their performances drop off.

Exactly.

Other posters have linked to his posts. You are not telling the truth

Exactly. IIRC her two Olympic Golds, her two WC Golds, her World Junior Gold, even her five super fast times in July/August all were achieved in May/June.

It's your problem, not mine, that you are not able to read and understand a simple quote.

This. Everyone knew Faith was going for the record. Didn't people tune in to watch a fast race? Presunably, fans want to see fast races but fast races mean doping. So what do you want? Would you have rather seen Kipyegon run 1:57?

I don't really get why a lot of people here even follow the sport if every fast performance is tainted.

I follow because I can live with the situation that there are no clean winners since 50 years, give or take. I also follow NBA...

But yes, no need to condemn Faith. She is just playing the game, and performing beautifully.

I follow it because I am a fan. It wasn't until the last few years that I started paying more attention. Still a fan but I no longer believe the outlandish times are clean, especially with all the busts in the last year. I don't know, at some point it may get too ridiculous to follow anymore

The circuit (athletes) always know what's up. Obvious dopers like Dibaba were never mobbed by other athletes after a win or a breakout performance. This just felt different. I prefer to, in just this case, have "faith".

Not a single top male 1500 runner can do what Kipyegon did. Must be a coincidence that no male can do that. (No female either.)

Have you actually done any research into Faith’s history as a runner? She ran 3:56 all the way back in 2013 and has slowly dropped that time down over the years - 3:54 in 2019, then 3:51 in 2021 and 3:50 last year. It’s not like she’s just run that 3:49 out of the blue which would then be more of a reason to raise suspicion around the performance.

Genzebe Dibaba (clean like Kipyegon of course) also ran around 4 seconds over her 800 PR for her world record.

Your arguments are totally illogical. You firstly argue that the top guys must all be on PEDs and now when a woman does an incredible time you suddenly seem to be suggesting that she’s the one on PEDs and the top guys aren’t because obviously if she can do what they can’t then they can’t all be doping. It’s just purely cherry picking without a sound argument.